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Precision Tests of the Standard Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The implications of recent precision ZZ-pole, WW mass, and weak neutral current data for testing the standard electroweak model, constraining the tt quark and Higgs masses, \alsz, and grand unification are discussed. A fit to all data yields \siz=0.2328±0.0007\siz = 0.2328 \pm 0.0007 (\msb) or \sinn1\mw2/\mz2=0.2267±0.0024\sinn \equiv 1 - \mw^2/\mz^2 = 0.2267 \pm 0.0024 (on-shell), where the uncertainties are mainly from \mt. In the standard model one predicts \mt=1502420+19+15\mt = 150^{+19 + 15}_{-24 - 20} GeV, where the central value assumes \mh = 300 GeV and the second uncertainty is for \mh \ra\ra 60 GeV (-) or 1 TeV (+). In the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model (MSSM) one predicts \mt=13428+23±5\mt = 134^{+23}_{-28} \pm 5 GeV, where the difference is due the light Higgs scalar expected in the MSSM. There is no significant constraint on \mh \ until \mt \ is known independently.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9303304,
  title  = {Precision Tests of the Standard Model},
  author = {Paul Langacker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9303304},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Lectures presented at {\it TASI-92}, Boulder, June 1992, 22 Pages, Latex, 9 figures, available on request, UPR-0555T

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