Published December 12, 2000 | Version v1
Journal article

Electroweak physics at NuTeV

  • 1. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 (United States)

Description

The NuTeV experiment at Fermilab presents a determination of the electroweak mixing angle. High purity, large statistics samples of νμN and ν-barμN events allow the use of the Paschos-Wolfenstein relation, a technique which considerably reduces systematic errors associated with charm production and other sources. Within the Standard Model, this measurement of sin2 θW indirectly determines the W boson mass to a precision comparable to direct measurements from high energy e+e- and pp-bar colliders. NuTeV measures sin2 θW(on-shell)=0.2253±0.0019(stat.)±0.0010(syst.), which implies MW=80.26±0.11 GeV. Outside the Standard Model, this result can be used to explore the possibility of new physics; in particular, we present limits on both neutrino oscillations and the presence of extra neutral vector gauge bosons

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
549
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 809-813
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
7. conference on intersections of particle and nuclear physics
Acronym
CIPANP
Dates
22-28 May 2000
Place
Quebec City (Canada)

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Notes
(c) 2000 American Institute of Physics.
Collaborations
NuTeV Collaboratio