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Interpreting AFBb, ALR and MW

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-10-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

After the long-standing mismatch between ALR and AFBb measurements for predicting the Higgs boson mass, the recent and very precise result on Mw confirms the existence of a crisis in the sector of electroweak measurements. In this note, it is shown that ALR and Mw can be simply reconciled by assuming a common value for the T parameter. Consequently, the AFBb deviation is amplified and reaches a 4 s.d. significance. Interpreting this as evidence for a non-universal behaviour of the b quark is proposed within an extra dimension model. Large deviations with respect to the SM are expected at future Z factories.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2210.12757,
  title  = {Interpreting AFBb, ALR and MW},
  author = {Francois Richard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.12757},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures

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