Limits on right-handed charged weak currents from a polarization-asymmetry correlation experiment with
- 28 June 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 70 (26) , 4047-4050
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.70.4047
Abstract
A new technique, based on relative measurements of the longitudinal polarization (P) of positrons emitted in two opoosite directions with respect to the nuclear polarization (R=/), is used to provide constraints on extensions of the standard model (). The first result, i.e., R/=0.926±0.041, was obtained with . Interpreted in the framework of left-right symmetric models and assuming no mixing, it provides a 90% C.L. lower limit of 225 GeV/ for the mass of a possible right-handed charged W gauge boson, reducing the mass range allowed by other semileptonic experiments.
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