Measurement of sin2thetaW from Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering at NuTeV

We report the measurement of sin2thetaW in neutrino-nucleon deep inelastic scattering from the NuTeV experiment. Using separate neutrino and anti-neutrino beams, NuTeV is able to determine sin2thetaW with low systematic errors by measuring the Paschos-Wolfenstein variable R-minus, a ratio of differe...

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Main Authors McFarland, K S, Adams, T, Alton, A, Avvakumov, S, de Barbaro, L, de Barbaro, P, Bernstein, R H, Bodek, A, Bolton, T, Brau, J, Buchholz, D, Budd, H, Bugel, L, Conrad, J, Drucker, R B, Frey, R, Goldman, J, Goncharov, M, Harris, D A, Johnson, R A, Koutsoliotas, S, Kim, J H, Lamm, M J, Marsh, W, Mason, D, McNulty, C, Naples, D, Nienaber, P, Romosan, A, Sakumoto, W K, Schellman, H, Shaevitz, M H, Spentzouris, P, Stern, E G, Vakili, M, Vaitaitis, A, V Wu, Yang, U K, J Yu, Zeller, G P
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Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 11.06.1998
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Inelastic scattering
Neutrino beams
Neutrinos
Systematic errors
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Summary:We report the measurement of sin2thetaW in neutrino-nucleon deep inelastic scattering from the NuTeV experiment. Using separate neutrino and anti-neutrino beams, NuTeV is able to determine sin2thetaW with low systematic errors by measuring the Paschos-Wolfenstein variable R-minus, a ratio of differences of neutrino and anti-neutrino neutral-current and charged-current cross-sections. NuTeV measures sin2thetaW(on-shell)= 0.2253+/-0.0019(stat)+/-0.0010(syst), which implies a W mass of 80.26+/-0.11 GeV.
ISSN:2331-8422