Measurement of the effective weak mixing angle by jet-charge asymmetry in hadronic decays of the Z boson

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作者
Acciarri, M
Adriani, O
Aguilar-Benitez, M
Ahlen, S
Alcaraz, J
Alemanni, G
Allaby, J
Aloisio, A
Alviggi, MG
Ambrosi, G
Anderhub, H
Andreev, VP
Angelescu, T
Anselmo, F
Arefiev, A
Azemoon, T
Aziz, T
Bagnaia, P
Baksay, L
Ball, RC
Banerjee, S
Banerjee, S
Banicz, K
Barczyk, A
Barillere, R
Barone, L
Bartalini, P
Baschirotto, A
Basile, M
Battiston, R
Bay, A
Becattini, F
Becker, U
Behner, F
Berdugo, J
Berges, P
Bertucci, B
Betev, BL
Bhattacharya, S
Biasini, M
Biland, A
Bilei, GM
Blaising, JJ
Blyth, SC
Bobbink, GJ
Bock, R
Bohm, A
Boldizsar, L
Borgia, B
Bourilkov, D
机构
[1] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[3] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[4] NIKHEF H, Natl Inst High Energy Phys, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[5] Univ Amsterdam, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[6] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[7] Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, LAPP, IN2P3, CNRS, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[8] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[9] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[10] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[11] Humboldt Univ, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
[12] Univ Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[14] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[15] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[16] Inst Atom Phys, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[17] Univ Bucharest, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[18] Hungarian Acad Sci, Cent Res Inst Phys, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary
[19] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[20] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[21] Univ Florence, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[22] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[23] FBLJA Project, World Lab, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[24] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[25] Univ Sci & Technol China, USTC, Anhua 230029, Peoples R China
[26] Res Inst High Energy Phys, SEFT, SF-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[27] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[28] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[29] Univ Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[30] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA
[31] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, IN2P3, Inst Phys Nucl, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[32] CIEMAT, Ctr Invest Energet Medioambientales & Tecnol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[33] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[34] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[35] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[36] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[37] Univ Cyprus, Dept Nat Sci, Nicosia, Cyprus
[38] Catholic Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[39] Natl Inst Nucl Phys & High Energy Phys, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[40] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[41] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[42] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[43] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[44] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[45] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[46] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[47] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Phys, St Petersburg, Russia
[48] Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[49] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[50] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
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10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01174-5
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摘要
The coupling of the Z boson to quarks is studied in a sample of about 3.5 million hadronic Z decays collected by the L3 experiment at LEP from 1991 to 1995. The forward-backward quark charge asymmetry is measured by means of a jet charge technique. From the measured asymmetries, the effective weak mixing angle is determined to be sin(2)<(theta)over bar>(w) = 0.2327 +/- 0.0012(stat,) +/- 0.0013(syst.). (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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