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Development of Polarization Experiments at Z^0 Energies

Research Project

Project/Area Number 04044076
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
SectionJoint Research
Research InstitutionNagoya University

Principal Investigator

KAJIKAWA Ryoichi  Nagoya University, Faculty of Science, Professor, 理学部, 教授 (40022537)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) PRESCOTT C.Y  スタンフォード線型加速器センター, 教授
LEITH D.W.G.  スタンフォード線型加速器センター, 教授
BREIDENBACH Martin  Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Professor, 教授
BALTAY C.  エール大学, 物理学部, 教授
KAWAHARA Hideaki  Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Research Associate, 研究員
MASUDA Hiroaki  Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Research Associate, 研究員
TAKAHASHI Tohru  Hiroshima University, Faculty of Science, Research Associate, 理学部, 助手 (50253050)
SUGIYAMA Akira  Nagoya University, Faculty of Science, Research Associate, 理学部, 助手 (80187674)
NAGAMINE Tadashi  Tohoku University, Faculty of Science, Research Associate, 理学部, 助手 (30212111)
SUEKANE Fumihiko  Tohoku University, Faculty of Science, Research Associate, 理学部, 助手 (10196678)
YOSHIOKA Masakazu  National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, Associate Professor, 助教授 (50107463)
NAKANISHI Tsutomu  Nagoya University, Faculty of Science, Associate Professor, 理学部, 助教授 (40022735)
SUZUKI Shiro  Nagoya University, Faculty of Science, Associate Professor, 理学部, 助教授 (50089851)
YUTA Haruo  Tohoku University, Faculty of Science, Professor, 理学部, 教授 (90108457)
BALTY Charles  Yale University, Professor
PRESCOTT Charles  Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Professor
LEITH David  Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Professor
C Baltay  エール大学, 物理学部, 教授
D W G S Leit  スタンフォード線型加速器センター, 教授
M I Breidenb  スタンフォード線型加速器センター, 教授
C Y Prescott  スタンフォード線型加速器センター, 教授
Project Period (FY) 1992 – 1994
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1994)
Budget Amount *help
¥19,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥19,500,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥6,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,500,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥6,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,500,000)
Fiscal Year 1992: ¥6,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,500,000)
KeywordsStanford linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) / SLAC Electron-Positron Linear Accelerator (SLC) / SLAC Large Detector (SLD) / Polarized electron beam / Z^0 boson / Electroweak interaction / Left-right asymmetry in coross section / Standard model in particle physics / Z^0生成断面積の左右非対称度 / Bメソンの物理 / SLD実験 / 電子・陽電子消滅 / Z^0粒子 / 直線衝突型加速器 / 偏極実験 / ワインバーグ角
Research Abstract

In 1994 SLC performance was dramatically improved by developing an extensive set of feedback systems, and the installation of seamless vacuum tube in the dumping ring, and succeeded to demonstrate the reality of future large linear collidertechnology in TeV region.
These feedback systems are challange for preservation of the low emittance. They compensate for enviromental effects ranging from diurnal temperature variations to beam orbit disturbances up to frequencies of tens of Hz. They control the beam enery and optimal overlap of two beams at the interaction point (IP), and serve to stabilize against step changes such as cycling and interchange of klystrons. The orbit feedback loops are used to deliberate bumps in the lineac orbit whic cancel previously generated wake field tails. As result, horizontal emittances drop from about 30 to 7 micro radian meter.
Other remarkable success in 1994 operation has been to increase the specific luminosity by the flat beam collisions. The flat beams … More of vertical size of 50 mm and horizontal of 100 mm are procuced from the dumping rings by shifting the operating point away from a coupling resonance, and now SLD routinely attained flat beam collisions with 0.9 mm and 2.5 mm, vertial and horizontal size respectively, at IP.The IP is tured out to be stable within 10 mm level for several houres and this feature boost up the reconstruction efficiencies of complicated reaction vertecies.
The most remarkable advance in SLC/SLD experiment is the high electron polarization. By making use of strained GaAs cathode irradiated by the pulsed circularly polarized laser beam with wavelegth of 865 nm and the pulse length of 2.8 ns with 10 mJ of energy, SLC delivered electrons with a polarization of more than 85% at the source and 75% at IP.
In this year, SLC/SLD has run from the June to the middle of February, with an average luminosity of 40-55 Zs per hour or 800 Zs per day (a record luminosity was 10^<30> cm^2/sec or 1,100 Zs per day), and has recorded more than 100,000 Z at the end of 1994 runs with an average polarization of 75%.
The left-right cross section asymmetry A_<LR> with longitudinally polarized electron beam has been measured at E_<cm>=91.2660.02 GeV with 1993 data (50.000 events). The electron polarization was continuously monitored by a Compton scattering and Moeller polarimeter, and both results were coinside, i.e. (65.7<plus-minus>0.9) % and (66<plus-minus>3) % respectively, after detailed studies of detector characteristics. The uncertainty in polarization determination was <plus-minus>1.3%. The final result we obtained is,
A_<LR>=0.1656<plus-minus>0.0073 (statistical) <plus-minus>0.0032 (systematic)
From this measurment, the weak mixing angle defined at the Z-pole is derived to be
sin^2rheta_W^<eff>=0.2292<plus-minus>0.0009 (statistical) <plus-minus>0.0004 (systematic)
Comparing with the previous measurments, this result is smaller by 2.4 standard deviations than the average of 25 measurments performed by the LEP Collaborations. Our future plan for this measurment is to reduce uncertainties in A_<LR> to the level of 0.002 the same order of magnitudes to theoretical limit.
An extensive QCD studies are performed with the Z samples of 1993 run. Since the theoretical errors are so large, the high event statistics are not requiered in these analysis. Specific subjects being done are : alpha_S mesurment, flavor independence of alpha_S non-leading multiplicity of B events, quark-gluon jet difference, jet handedness, and search for T-violation in three-jet events.
Taking advantage of good vertex determination of CDC+VTX,BB branching ratio has been determind. A preliminary result was obtained with about 2,500 B samples is,
R_b=0.259<plus-minus>0.023 (stat.) <plus-minus>0.061 (MC simulation).
With good vertexing and highly polarized electron beams, SLC/SLD has the unique opportunity exploring B physics Since the number of Z event collection is the key to the new physics, we plan to continue data aquisition experiments to record a million of Zs in the next few years. The experiment for 1994 has already approved in full. One of the most improtant detector upgrades for the comming "million-Z" runs, the new VTX upgrade has been approved. We are expecting SLD to go ahead in 1995 and further more.
Strong coupling constant alpha_S is determind by the complehensive analysis using all existing obserbvables plus a new obsevable,
alpha_S=0.120<plus-minus>0.003 (experimental) <plus-minus>0.008 (theoretical)
Obtained results are consistent with other experiments. This result indicate clearly the uncerainty due to the hadoronization and other theoretical calculations. A rapid development in QCD formalism is expected.
In SLAC and in Japan, a new efforts for the program conversion from existing VMS codes to UNIX are being proceed to meet SLAC policy, and it will take some resouces and time to get rid of confusion in computing power. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • 1993 Annual Research Report
  • 1992 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (25 results)

All Other

All Publications (25 results)

  • [Publications] SLD Collaboration(K.Abe,et al.): "MEASUREMENT OF α_S(M^2_Z)FROM HADRONIC EVENT OBSERVABLES AT THE Z^0 RESONANCE." Phys.Rev.D51. 962 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SLD Collaboration(K.Abe,et al.): "A SEARCH FOR JET HANDEDNESS IN HADRONIC Z^0 DECAYS," Phys.Rev.Lett.74. 512-516 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SLD Collaboration(K.Abe,et al.): "PRECISE MEASUREMENT OF THE LEFT-RIGHT CROSS-SECTION ASYMMETRY IN Z BOSON PRODUCTION BY e^+e^- COLLISIONS." Phys.Rev.Lett.73. 25-29 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SLD Collaboration(K.Abe,et al.): "MEASUREMENT OF α_S FROM ENERGY-ENERGY CORRELATIONS AT THE Z^0 RESONANCE." Phys.Rev.D50. 5580-5590 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SLD Collaboration(K.Abe,et al.): "MEASUREMENT OF THE CHARGED MULTIPLICITY OF Z^0→BB EVENTS." Phys.Rev.Lett.72. 3145-3149 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SLD Colaboration (K.Abe, et al.): "MEASUREMENT OF alpha_S (M^2_) FROM HADRONIC EVENT OBSERVABLES AT THE Z^0 RESONANCE." Phys.Rev.20GD01 : D51. 962 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SLD Collaboration (K.Abe, et al.): "A SEARCH FOR JET HANDEDNESS IN HADRONIC Z^0 DECAYS." Phys.Rev.Lett.74. 512-1516 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SLD Collaboration (k.Abe, et al.): "PRECISE MEASUREMENT OF THE LEFT-RIGHT CROSS-SECTION ASYMMETRY IN Z BOSON PRODUCTION BY e^+e^- COLLISIONS." Phys.Rev.Lett.73. 25-29 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SLD Collaboration (K.Abe, et al.): "MEASUREMENT OF alpha_S FROM ENERGY-ENERGY CORRELATIONS AT THE Z^0 RESONANCE." Phys.Rev.D50. 5580-5590 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SLD Collaboration (K.Abe, et al.): "MEASUREMENT OF THE CHARGED MULTIPLICITY OF Z^0*BB EVENTS." Phys.Rev.Lett.72. 3145-3149 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] K.Abe,et al.: "Measurement of the charged multiplicity of Z^0→bb^^- events." SLAC-PUB-6372. 1-18 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] H.Masuda,et al.: "A study of jet handedness at the Z^0 resonance." SLAC-PUB-6362 Submitted to Int.Europhysics Conf.on High Energy Physics,Marseille,France,Jul 22-28,1993.1-3 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Charles Y.Prescott,et al.: "e^+e^-Collisions at the SLC:the left-right asymmetry." SLAC-PUB-6355.Invited talk International Conference on Neutral Currents:Twenty Years Later,Paris,France,6-9 Jul 1993.1-12 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] K.Abe,et al.: "A measurement of R_b=Γ(Z^0→bb^^-)/Γ(Z^0→hadrons)at SLD." SLAC-PUB-6292 Submitted to Int.Symp.on Lepton-Photon Interactions,Ithaca,NY,Aug10-15,1993.1-10 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Martin Breidenbach,et al.: "SLC and SLD:Experimental experience with a linear collider." SLAC-PUB-6313.Presented at 2nd International Workshop on Physics and Experiments with Linear e^+e^- Colliders,Waikoloa,HI,26-30 Apr 1993.1-18 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Marcello Piccolo,et al.: "SLD results from the study of polarized Z^0 produced at the SLC." SLAC-PUB-6285 Presented at Rencontres de la Valle d'Aoste,La Thuile,Italy,Mar 7-10,1993. 1-18 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] K.Abe,et al.: "A measurement of α_S from jet rates at the Z^0 resonance." SLAC-PUB-6133 Phys.Rev.Lett.71. 2528-2532 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] P.N.Burrows,et al.: "Studies of 〓CD B Physics and jet handedness at SLD." SLAC-PUB-6225 Presented at Rencontre de Moriond,〓CD and High-Energy Hadronic Interactions,Les Arcs,France,Mar 20-27,1993. 1-12 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] R.D.Elia,et al.: "First measurement of the left-right asymmetry in Z boson production." SLAC-PUB-6169 Mod.Phys.Lett.A8. 2237-2248 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] SLD Collaboration(K. Abe, et al.): "A Study of Energy-Energy Correlations and Measurement of Alpha-s at the ZO Resonance." SLAC-PUB-5905. 1-20 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] SLD Collaboration(K. Abe, et al.): "A Study of Jet Rates and Measurement of Alpha-s at the Z^0 Resonance." SLAC-PUB-5904. 1-14 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] SLD Collaboration(P.N. Burrows, et al.): "First QCD Results from SLD." SLAC-PUB-5802. 1-9 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] SLD Collaboration(M.J. Fero): "The Compton Polarimeter for SLC." SLAC-PUB-6026. 1-5 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] SLD Collaboration(K. Abe, et al.): "First Measurement of the Left-Right Cross-Section Asymmetry in Z Boson Production by e^+e^- collision." SLAC-PUB-6030. 1-30 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] SLC Collaboration(P.N. Burrows): "Measurement of Spin-Sensitive Quantities in Hadronic Decays of Z^0 Bosons Produced in e^+e^- Annihilations." SLAC-PUB-6004. 1-7 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report

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