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A Departure from Prediction: Electroweak Physics at Nutev
22 May 2002
Abstract
The NuTeV experiment has performed precision measurements of the ratio of
neutral-current to charged-current cross-sections in high rate, high energy
neutrino and anti-neutrino beams on a dense, primarily steel, target. The
separate neutrino and anti-neutrino beams, high statistics, and improved
control of other experimental systematics, allow the determination of
electroweak parameters with significantly greater precision than past
neutrino-nucleon scattering experiments. Our null hypothesis test of the
standard model prediction measures
sin2thetaW=0.2277+/-0.0013(stat)+/-0.0009(syst), a value which is 3.0 standard
deviations above the prediction. We discuss possible explanations for and
implications of this discrepancy.
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- Title
- A Departure from Prediction: Electroweak Physics at Nutev
- Creators
- K. S McFarlandG. P ZellerT AdamsA AltonS AvvakumovL deBarbaroP deBarbaroR. H BernsteinA BodekT BoltonJ BrauD BuchholzH BuddL BugelJ ConradR. B DruckerB. T FlemingR FreyJ. A FormaggioJ GoldmanM GoncharovD. A HarrisR. A JohnsonJ. H KimS KoutsoliotasM. J LammW MarshD MasonJ McDonaldC McNultyD NaplesP NienaberA RomosanW. K SakumotoH SchellmanM. H ShaevitzP SpentzourisE. G SternN SuwonjandeeM TzanovM VakiliA VaitaitisU. K YangJ YuE. D Zimmerman
- Resource Type
- Preprint
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Other Identifier
- 991021862305204721