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Phys. Rev. D 71, 052002 (2005) [30 pages]

Measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry of electron-positron pairs in p̅ p collisions at s=1.96  TeV

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D. Acosta et al. CDF Collaboration
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Received 29 October 2004; published 25 March 2005

We present a measurement of the mass dependence of the forward-backward charge asymmetry (AFB) for e+e- pairs produced via an intermediate Z/γ* with mass Mee>40  GeV/c2. We study the constraints on the Z-quark couplings imposed by our measurement. We analyze an integrated luminosity of 72  pb-1 collected by the CDF-II detector in p̅ p collisions at s=1.96  TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron. A comparison of the uncorrected AFB between data and standard model Monte Carlo gives good agreement with a χ2/DOF of 15.7/15. The couplings measurements are also consistent with standard model predictions.

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URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.052002
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.052002
PACS:
13.85.Qk, 12.15.Ji, 12.15.Mm, 12.38.Qk