Measurement of sin^2 theta_W in nu N Scattering from NuTeV
hep-ex
/ Authors
NuTeV Collaboration, R. A. Johnson, T. Adams, A. Alton, S. Avvakumov, L. De Barbaro, P. De Barbaro, R. H. Bernstein, A. Bodek, T. Bolton
and 31 more authors
J. Brau, D. Buchholz, H. Budd, L. Bguel, J. Conrad, R. B. Drucker, R. Frey, J. Goldman, M. Goncharov, D. A. Harris, S. Koutsoliotas, J. H. Kim, M. J. Lamm, W. Marsh, D. Mason, C. McNulty, K. S. McFarland, D. Naples, P. Nienaber, A. Romosan, W. K. Sakumoto, H. Schellman, M. H. Shaevitz, P. Spentzouris
/ Abstract
We report the measurement of sin^2 theta_W in nu N deep inelastic scattering from the NuTeV experiment. By using separate neutrino and anti-neutrino beams, NuTeV is able to determine sin^2 theta_W with smaller systematic and similar or smaller statistical errors when compared to previous neutrino experiments. NuTeV measures sin^2 theta_W (on-shell) = 0.2253 +/- 0.0019(stat.) +/- 0.0010(sys.), which implies M_W = 80.26 +/- 0.11 GeV/c^2.