A precise determination of the electroweak mixing angle from semileptonic neutrino scattering
Author(s) -
J.V. Allaby,
U. Amaldi,
G. Barbiellini,
M. Baubillier,
F. Bergsma,
A. Capone,
W. Flegel,
F. Grancagnolo,
L. Lanceri,
Michael Metcalf,
C. Nieuwenhuis,
R. Pain,
J. Panman,
R. Plunckett,
K. Winter,
I. Abt,
J. Aspiazu,
A. Büngener,
F.W. Büsser,
P.D. Gall,
T. Hebbeker,
F. Niebergall,
P. Schütt,
P. Stähelin,
P. Gorbunov,
E. Grigoriev,
V. Khovansky,
A. Rosanov,
A. Baroncelli,
L. Barone,
B. Borgia,
C. Bosio,
M. Diemoz,
C. Dionisi,
U. Dore,
F. Ferroni,
E. Longo,
P.F. Loverre,
L. Luminari,
P. Monacelli,
S. Morganti,
F. de Notaristefani,
C. Santoni,
L. Tortora,
V. Valente
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
zeitschrift für physik c
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1431-5858
pISSN - 0170-9739
DOI - 10.1007/bf01630598
Subject(s) - physics , electroweak interaction , particle physics , isoscalar , neutrino , nuclear physics , muon , weinberg angle , charged current , charm (quantum number) , hadron , radiative transfer , mixing (physics) , lepton , quantum mechanics , electron
The cross-section ratio of neutral-current and charged-current semileptonic interactions of muon-neutrinos on isoscalar nuclei has been measured with the result:R v =0.3093±0.0031 for hadronic energy larger than 4 GeV. From this ratio we determined the electroweak mixing angle sin2 theta W , wherem c is the charm-quark mass in GeV/c2. Comparison with direct measurements ofm w andm z determines the radiative shift of the intermediate boson mass Deltar=0.077±0.025(exp.)±0.038(syst.), in agreement with the prediction. Assuming the validity of the electroweak standard theory we determined rhov=0.990–0.013(m c –1.5)±0.009(exp.)±0.003(theor.)
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