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Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 804–808 (1997)

Direct Measurement of Leptonic Coupling Asymmetries with Polarized Z Bosons

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K. Abe et al. (SLD Collaboration)
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Received 1 April 1997; published in the issue dated 4 August 1997

We present direct measurements of the Z0-lepton coupling asymmetry parameters Ae, Aμ, and Aτ, based on a data sample of 12 063 leptonic Z0 decays collected by the SLD detector. The Z bosons are produced in collisions of beams of polarized e- with unpolarized e+ at the SLAC Linear Collider. The couplings are extracted from the measurement of the left-right and forward-backward asymmetries for each lepton species. The results are Ae = 0.152±0.012(stat)±0.001(syst), Aμ = 0.102±0.034±0.002, and Aτ = 0.195±0.034±0.003.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.804
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.804
PACS:
12.15.Mm, 13.10.+q, 13.38.Dg