2018-06-28
Tevatron Run II combination of the effective leptonic electroweak mixing angle
2018-06-28 • T. Aaltonen, V. M. Abazov, B. Abbott, B. S. Acharya, M. Adams, T. Adams, J. P. Agnew, G. D. Alexeev, G. Alkhazov, A. Alton, S. Amerio, D. Amidei, A...
Drell-Yan lepton pairs produced in the process $p\bar{p} → ℓ^+ ℓ^−$ + X through an intermediate γ∗/Z boson have an asymmetry in their angular distribution related to the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the electroweak force and the associated mixing of its neutral gauge bosons. The CDF and D0 experiments have measured the effective-leptonic electroweak mixing parameter $sin^2 θ^{lept}_{eff}$ using electron and muon pairs selected from the full Tevatron proton-antiproton data sets collected in 2001-2011, correspon…