Electroweak radiative corrections to polarized Mo/ller scattering asymmetries

One loop electroweak radiative corrections to left-right parity-violating Mo/ller scattering (e-e-→e-e-) asymmetries are presented. They reduce the standard model (tree level) prediction by 40±3% where the main shift and uncertainty stem from hadronic vacuum polarization loops. A similar reduction also occurs for the electron-electron atomic parity-violating interaction. That effect can be attributed to an increase of sin2θW(q2) by 3% in running from q2=mZ2 to 0. The sensitivity of the asymmetry to open-quote open-quote new physics close-quote close-quote is also discussed. copyright 1996 The American Physical Society