Phys. Rev. D 63, 012001 (2000) [7 pages]Search for light-to-heavy quark flavor changing neutral currents in νμN and ν̅ μN scattering at the Fermilab TevatronReceived 31 July 2000; published 17 November 2000 We report on a search for flavor-changing neutral-currents (FCNC) in the production of heavy quarks in deep inelastic νμN and ν̅ μN scattering by the NuTeV experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. This measurement, made possible by the high-purity NuTeV sign-selected beams, probes for FCNC in heavy flavors at the quark level, and is uniquely sensitive to neutrino couplings of potential FCNC mediators. All searches are consistent with zero, and limits on the effective mixing strengths |Vuc|2, |Vdb|2, and |Vsb|2 are obtained. © 2000 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.63.012001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.63.012001
PACS:
12.15.Ff, 13.15.+g, 14.65.Dw, 14.65.Fy
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