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Determination of quark electroweak couplings from direct photon production in hadronic Z decays

ContributorsL3 Collaboration
CollaboratorsProduit, Nicolasorcid
Published inPhysics letters. B, vol. 301, no. 1, p. 136-144
Publication date1993
Abstract

We report on a comparison of isolated hard photon production in hadronic Z decays with the predictions of a next-to-leading order matrix-element calculation. We constrain the quark electroweak couplings to the Z boson with a simultaneous fit to three direct photon distributions, and combine this result with an independent constraint from our measurement of the total hadronic width of the Z, obtaining c u = 0.92 ± 0.22 and c d = 1.63 ± 0.15 where c u,d = 4( g V 2 + g A 2 ) u,d . Our results are consistent with standard model predictions.

Keywords
  • Electron positron: colliding beams
  • Colliding beams: electron positron
  • Electron positron: annihilation
  • Annihilation: electron positron
  • Z0: electroproduction
  • Electroproduction: Z0
  • Z0: radiative decay
  • Radiative decay: Z0
  • Photon: direct production
  • Direct production: photon
  • Electroweak interaction: validity test
  • Validity test: electroweak interaction
  • Coupling constant
  • Z0: branching ratio
  • Quark: pair production
  • Pair production: quark
  • L3
  • Experimental results
  • CERN LEP Stor
  • 91.0-91.5 GeV-cms
  • S044.21
  • S044.22
  • S044.7
Citation (ISO format)
L3 Collaboration. Determination of quark electroweak couplings from direct photon production in hadronic Z decays. In: Physics letters. B, 1993, vol. 301, n° 1, p. 136–144. doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(93)90735-z
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