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We present an improved direct measurement of the parity-violation parameter A_b in the Z boson-b quark coupling using a self-calibrating track-charge technique applied to a sample enriched in Z -> b b-bar events via the topological…
We present a direct measurement of the parity-violation parameter $A_c$ in the coupling of the $Z^0$ to $c$-quarks with the SLD detector. The measurement is based on a sample of 530k hadronic $Z^0$ decays, produced with a mean electron-beam…
We present an updated direct measurement of the parity-violating coupling of the Z boson to strange quarks, A_s, derived from the full SLD data sample of approximately 550,000 hadronic decays of Z bosons produced with a polarized electron…
We report a new measurement of A_b using data obtained by SLD in 1997-98. This measurement uses a vertex tag technique, where the selection of a b hemisphere is based on the reconstructed mass of the bottom hadron decay vertex. The method…
We present a direct measurement of the parity-violation parameter A_c. The measurement is based on 550k Z^0 decays collected by the SLD detector. The mean electron-beam polarization is |P_e| = 73 %. The tagging of c-quark events was…
We present a preliminary direct measurement of the parity violating coupling of the Z boson to strange quarks, A_s, derived from a sample of approximately 300,000 hadronic decays of Z bosons produced with a polarized electron beam and…
We present measurements of $Z^0$ to heavy-quark coupling electroweak parameters, $R_b$, $R_c$, and parity-violation parameter $A_c$, from SLD. The measurements are based on approximately 550k hadronic $Z^0$ events collected in 1993-98.…
The parity violation parameters $A_b$ and $A_c$ of the $Zb{\bar b}$ and $Zc\bar{c}$ couplings have been measured directly, using the polar angle dependence of the polarized cross sections at the $Z^0$ pole. Bottom and charmed hadrons were…
Key electroweak measurements performed by the SLD collaboration at the SLC are described and recent results given. The left-right cross-section asymmetry, $A_{LR}$, has been updated to include the 1996 data. It remains the single most…
We present a new preliminary measurement of the parity-violation parameter Ab using a self-calibrating vertex-charge technique. In the SLD experiment we observe hadronic decays of polarized Z bosons produced in collisions between…
We report a new measurement of A_c using data obtained by SLD in 1993-98. This measurement uses a vertex tag technique, where the selection of a c hemisphere is based on the reconstructed mass of the charm hadron decay vertex. The method…
We have made the first direct measurement of the parity-violating coupling of the Z^0 boson to the strange quark, A_s, using ~550,000 e^+e^- ->Z^0->hadrons events produced with a polarized electron beam and recorded by the SLD experiment.…
We present a new preliminary combination of measurements of the parity-violation parameter Ab made by the SLD collaboration using various experimental techniques. The techniques differ in detail, but in general a sample of bb events is…
We present a direct measurement of the parity violation parameter Ab, derived from the left-right forward-backward asymmetry of b quarks tagged via leptons from semileptonic decays. The lepton identification algorithm combines information…
We present direct measurements of the parity-violation parameters $A_b$, $A_c$, and $A_s$ at the $Z^0$ resonance with the SLD detector. The measurements are based on approximately 530k hadronic $Z^0$ events collected in 1993-98. Obtained…
We report results on two physics topics from the SLD experiment at the SLAC Linear Collider, using our full sample of 550,000 events of the type e+e- --> Z0 --> q-q(bar). The electron beam was polarized, enabling the quark and antiquark…
We present selected new results on strong interaction physics from the SLD experiment at the SLAC Linear Collider (SLC), symmetry tests of b\bar{b}g vertex, the rate of secondary b\bar{b} production via gluon splitting, the B hadron energy…
We report on the final electroweak measurements performed with data taken at the Z resonance by the experiments operating at the electron-positron colliders SLC and LEP. The data consist of 17 million Z decays accumulated by the ALEPH,…
We present selected results on strong interaction physics from the SLD experiment at the SLAC Linear Collider. We report on several new studies of 3- and 4-jet hadronic Z decays, in which jets are identified as quark, antiquark or gluon.…
We present an improved measurement of the left-right cross section asymmetry Alr for Z boson production by e+e- collisions. The measurement was performed at a center-of-mass energy of 91.28 GeV with the SLD detector at the SLAC Linear…