Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in Z/γ* → μ+μ- decays and determination of the effective weak mixing angle

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作者
Aaij, R. [39 ]
Adeva, B. [38 ]
Adinolfi, M. [47 ]
Affolder, A. [53 ]
Ajaltouni, Z. [5 ]
Akar, S. [6 ]
Albrecht, J. [9 ]
Alessio, F. [39 ]
Alexander, M. [52 ]
Ali, S. [42 ]
Alkhazov, G. [30 ]
Cartelle, P. Alvarez [54 ]
Alves, A. A., Jr. [58 ]
Amato, S. [2 ]
Amerio, S. [22 ]
Amhis, Y. [7 ]
An, L. [3 ]
Anderlini, L. [17 ]
Anderson, J. [41 ]
Andreassi, G. [40 ]
Andreotti, M. [16 ,74 ]
Andrews, J. E. [59 ]
Appleby, R. B. [55 ]
Gutierrez, O. Aquines [10 ]
Archilli, F. [39 ]
d'Argent, P. [11 ]
Artamonov, A. [36 ]
Artuso, M. [60 ]
Aslanides, E. [6 ]
Auriemmam, G. [25 ,81 ]
Baalouch, M. [5 ]
Bachmann, S. [11 ]
Back, J. J. [49 ]
Badalov, A. [37 ]
Baesso, C. [61 ]
Baldini, W. [16 ,39 ]
Barlow, R. J. [55 ]
Barsche, C. [39 ]
Barsuk, S. [7 ]
Barter, W. [39 ]
Batozskaya, V. [28 ]
Battista, V. [40 ]
Bay, A. [40 ]
Beaucourt, L. [4 ]
Beddow, J. [52 ]
Bedeschi, F. [23 ]
Bediaga, I. [1 ]
Bel, L. J. [42 ]
Bellee, V. [40 ]
Belloli, N. [20 ,78 ]
机构
[1] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[2] Univ Fed Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[3] Tsinghua Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[4] Univ Savoie Mt Blanc, CNRS IN2P3, LAPP, Annecy Le Vieux, France
[5] Univ Blaise Pascal, Clermont Univ, CNRS IN2P3, LPC, Clermont Ferrand, France
[6] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France
[7] Univ Paris 11, CNRS IN2P3, LAL, Orsay, France
[8] Univ Paris Diderot, Univ Paris 06, LPNHE, CNRS IN2P3, Paris, France
[9] Tech Univ Dortmund, Fak Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
[10] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
[11] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Phys, Heidelberg, Germany
[12] Univ Coll Dublin, Sch Phys, Dublin 2, Ireland
[13] Sez INFN Bari, Bari, Italy
[14] Sez INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[15] Sez INFN Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
[16] Sez INFN Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
[17] Sez INFN Firenze, Florence, Italy
[18] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl, Frascati, Italy
[19] Sez INFN Genova, Genoa, Italy
[20] Sez INFN Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
[21] Sez INFN Milano, Milan, Italy
[22] Sez INFN Padova, Padua, Italy
[23] Sez INFN Pisa, Pisa, Italy
[24] Sez INFN Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
[25] Sez INFN Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
[26] Polish Acad Sci, Henryk Niewodniczanski Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[27] AGH Univ Sci & Technol, Fac Phys & Appl Comp Sci, PL-30059 Krakow, Poland
[28] Natl Ctr Nucl Res NCBJ, Warsaw, Poland
[29] Horia Hulubei Natl Inst Phys & Nucl Engn, Bucharest 077125, Romania
[30] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, Gatchina, Russia
[31] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[32] Moscow State Univ SINP MSU, Inst Nucl Phys, Moscow, Russia
[33] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117312, Russia
[34] Budker Inst Nucl Phys SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
[35] Novosibirsk State Univ, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
[36] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[37] Univ Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
[38] Univ Santiago de Compostela, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
[39] European Org Nucl Res CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
[40] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
[41] Univ Zurich, Inst Phys, Zurich, Switzerland
[42] Nikhef Natl Inst Subat Phys, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[43] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[44] NSC KIPT, Kharkov, Ukraine
[45] Natl Acad Sci KINR, Inst Nucl Res, Kiev, Ukraine
[46] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[47] Univ Bristol, HH Wills Phys Lab, Bristol BS8 1TL, Avon, England
[48] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England
[49] Univ Warwick, Dept Phys, Coventry CV4 7AL, W Midlands, England
[50] STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot, Oxon, England
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Electroweak interaction; Forward physics; Hadron-Hadron Scattering;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP11(2015)190
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
The forward-backward charge asymmetry for the process q (q) over bar -> Z/gamma* -> mu(+)mu(-) is measured as a function of the invariant mass of the dimuon system. Measurements are performed using proton proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at root s = 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 1 fb(-1) and 2 fb(-2) respectively. Within the Standard Model the results constrain the effective electroweak mixing angle to be
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页数:19
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