Measurement of the effective leptonic weak mixing angle

The LHCb Collaboration

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Abstract

Using pp collision data at s = 13 TeV, recorded by the LHCb experiment between 2016 and 2018 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb−1, the forward-backward asymmetry in the pp → Z/γ* → μ+μ process is measured. The measurement is carried out in ten intervals of the difference between the muon pseudorapidities, within a fiducial region covering dimuon masses between 66 and 116 GeV, muon pseudorapidities between 2.0 and 4.5 and muon transverse momenta above 20 GeV. These forward-backward asymmetries are compared with predictions, at next-to-leading order in the strong and electroweak couplings. The measured effective leptonic weak mixing angle is (Formula presented.) where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second arises from systematic uncertainties associated with the asymmetry measurement, and the third arises from uncertainties in the fit model used to extract sin2θeffℓ from the asymmetry measurement. This result is based on an arithmetic average of results using the CT18, MSHT20, and NNPDF31 parameterisations of the proton internal structure, and is consistent with previous measurements and with predictions from the global electroweak fit.

Original languageEnglish
Article number26
Pages (from-to)1-27
Number of pages28
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2024
Issue number12
Early online date3 Dec 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2024

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Keywords

  • Electroweak Interaction
  • Hadron-Hadron Scattering

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