The MOLLER Experiment: An Ultra-Precise Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle Using M{\o}ller Scattering
Abstract
The physics case and an experimental overview of the MOLLER (Measurement Of a Lepton Lepton Electroweak Reaction) experiment at the 12 GeV upgraded Jefferson Lab are presented. A highlight of the Fundamental Symmetries subfield of the 2007 NSAC Long Range Plan was the SLAC E158 measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in polarized electron-electron (M{\o}ller) scattering. The proposed MOLLER experiment will improve on this result by a factor of five, yielding the most precise measurement of the weak mixing angle at low or high energy anticipated over the next decade. This new result would be sensitive to the interference of the electromagnetic amplitude with new neutral current amplitudes as weak as from as yet undiscovered dynamics beyond the Standard Model. The resulting discovery reach is unmatched by any proposed experiment measuring a flavor- and CP-conserving process over the next decade, and yields a unique window to new physics at MeV and multi-TeV scales, complementary to direct searches at high energy colliders such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The experiment takes advantage of the unique opportunity provided by the upgraded electron beam energy, luminosity, and stability at Jefferson Laboratory and the extensive experience accumulated in the community after a round of recent successfully completed parity-violating electron scattering experiments
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@article{arxiv.1411.4088,
title = {The MOLLER Experiment: An Ultra-Precise Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle Using M{\o}ller Scattering},
author = {MOLLER Collaboration and J. Benesch and P. Brindza and R. D. Carlini and J-P. Chen and E. Chudakov and S. Covrig and M. M. Dalton and A. Deur and D. Gaskell and A. Gavalya and J. Gomez and D. W. Higinbotham and C. Keppel and D. Meekins and R. Michaels and B. Moffit and Y. Roblin and R. Suleiman and R. Wines and B. Wojtsekhowski and G. Cates and D. Crabb and D. Day and K. Gnanvo and D. Keller and N. Liyanage and V. V. Nelyubin and H. Nguyen and B. Norum and K. Paschke and V. Sulkosky and J. Zhang and X. Zheng and J. Birchall and P. Blunden and M. T. W. Gericke and W. R. Falk and L. Lee and J. Mammei and S. A. Page and W. T. H. van Oers and K. Dehmelt and A. Deshpande and N. Feege and T. K. Hemmick and K. S. Kumar and T. Kutz and R. Miskimen and M. J. Ramsey-Musolf and S. Riordan and N. Hirlinger Saylor and J. Bessuille and E. Ihloff and J. Kelsey and S. Kowalski and R. Silwal and G. De Cataldo and R. De Leo and D. Di Bari and L. Lagamba and E. NappiV. Bellini and F. Mammoliti and F. Noto and M. L. Sperduto and C. M. Sutera and P. Cole and T. A. Forest and M. Khandekar and D. McNulty and K. Aulenbacher and S. Baunack and F. Maas and V. Tioukine and R. Gilman and K. Myers and R. Ransome and A. Tadepalli and R. Beniniwattha and R. Holmes and P. Souder and D. S. Armstrong and T. D. Averett and W. Deconinck and W. Duvall and A. Lee and M. L. Pitt and J. A. Dunne and D. Dutta and L. El Fassi and F. De Persio and F. Meddi and G. M. Urciuoli and E. Cisbani and C. Fanelli and F. Garibaldi and K. Johnston and N. Simicevic and S. Wells and P. M. King and J. Roche and J. Arrington and P. E. Reimer and G. Franklin and B. Quinn and A. Ahmidouch and S. Danagoulian and O. Glamazdin and R. Pomatsalyuk and R. Mammei and J. W. Martin and T. Holmstrom and J. Erler and Yu. G. Kolomensky and J. Napolitano and K. A. Aniol and W. D. Ramsay and E. Korkmaz and D. T. Spayde and F. Benmokhtar and A. Del Dotto and R. Perrino and S. Barkanova and A. Aleksejevs and J. Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.4088},
year = {2014}
}