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Z Boson Asymmetry Measurements at the Tevatron

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-08-14 v1

Abstract

We present measurements of the forward-backward asymmetry (A_fb) in dilepton pair decays of Z bosons produced in ppbar collisions using the full Tevatron dataset. The CDF experiment extracts a value for the effective weak mixing angle parameter sin^{2}\theta^{l}_{eff} of 0.2315 +/- 0.0010 from the A_fb distribution of dimuon events in 9.2 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity. From dielectron events in 9.7 fb^{-1} of data, the D0 experiment finds sin^{2}\theta^{l}_{eff} = 0.23106 +/- 0.00053, the world's most precise measurement of sin^{2}\theta^{l}_{eff} from hadron colliders and with light quark couplings.

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@article{arxiv.1409.0600,
  title  = {Z Boson Asymmetry Measurements at the Tevatron},
  author = {B. Quinn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0600},
  year   = {2019}
}

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6 pages, 6 figures. Conference proceedings for the 49th Rencontres de Moriond on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, 15-22 March 2014