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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Measurement of A(FB)(b anti-b) in hadronic Z decays using a jet charge technique

Delphi CollaborationReyes Alemany FernándezSusana Cabrera UrbánMaría Victoria Castillo GiménezEduardo Cortina GilAntonio Ferrer SoriaJuan A. Fuster VerdúCarmen García GarcíaInés Gil BotellaJuan José Hernández ReyEmilio Higón RodríguezFernando Martínez VidalSergio Navas ConchaJosé Salt Cairols

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Física nuclearPartícules (Física nuclear)

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The b {b} forward-backward asymmetry has been determined from the average charge flow measured in a sample of 3,500,000 hadronic Z decays collected with the DELPHI detector in 1992-1995. The measurement is performed in an enriched b {b} sample selected using an impact parameter tag and results in the following values for the b {b} forward-backward asymmetry: AFBb\overline{b} (89.55 GeV) = 0.068 ± 0.018 (stat.)± 0.0013(syst.) AFBb\overline{b} (91.26 GeV) = 0.0982±0.0047(stat.)±0.0016(syst.) AFBb\overline{b} (92.94 GeV) = 0.123 ± 0.016 (stat.)± 0.0027(syst.) The b {b} charge separation required for this analysis is directly measured in the b tagged sample, while the other charge separations are obtained from a fragmentation model precisely calibrated to data. The effective weak mixing angle is deduced from the measurement to be: sin2θeffl= 0.23186±0.00083

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
1999-01-01
10.1007/s100520050030http://hdl.handle.net/10550/33768