Recent Results from SLD

Technical Report · Tue Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/784880· OSTI ID:784880

Convery, Mark R

New results from the SLD collaboration in the fields of Electroweak, QCD and Heavy Flavor physics are presented. The analyses make use of all or part of SLD's final data sample of 550,000 Z{sup 0} decays collected between 1993 and 1998. Many of the analyses exploit the large longitudinal polarization provided by the SLC's e{sup -}beam. The precision vertexing provided by the CCD-based vertex detector is similarly key to many of the analyses. Final results are presented for the total cross section asymmetry A{sub LR}, the final state asymmetries A{sub c} and A{sub s}, and the B fragmentation function D(x{sub B}). Preliminary results are presented for A{sub b}, for the final state branching ratios R{sub b} and R{sub c} and for B{sub s} mixing.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 784880
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-8781; TRN: US0108663
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 27 Feb 2001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ASYMMETRY
BRANCHING RATIO
FRAGMENTATION
POLARIZATION
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
TOTAL CROSS SECTIONS
STANFORD LINEAR COLLIDER DETECTOR
QUANTUM FLAVORDYNAMICS
Z NEUTRAL BOSONS
DECAY