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Measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry and extraction of sin2θWeff in pp̄→Z/γ*+X→e+e-+X events produced at s=1.96TeV

  • V. M. Abazov
  • , B. Abbott
  • , M. Abolins
  • , B. S. Acharya
  • , M. Adams
  • , T. Adams
  • , E. Aguilo
  • , S. H. Ahn
  • , M. Ahsan
  • , G. D. Alexeev
  • , G. Alkhazov
  • , A. Alton
  • , G. Alverson
  • , G. A. Alves
  • , M. Anastasoaie
  • , L. S. Ancu
  • , T. Andeen
  • , S. Anderson
  • , B. Andrieu
  • , M. S. Anzelc
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Abstract

We present a measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry (AFB) in pp̄→Z/γ*+X→e+e-+X events at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV using 1.1fb-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. AFB is measured as a function of the invariant mass of the electron-positron pair, and found to be consistent with the standard model prediction. We use the AFB measurement to extract the effective weak mixing angle sin2θWeff=0.2326±0.0018(stat)±0.0006(syst).

Original languageEnglish
Article number191801
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume101
Issue number19
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StatePublished - 6 Nov 2008

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