Improved limits on the weak, neutral, hadronic axial vector coupling constants 
from quasielastic scattering of polarized electrons.

Heil, W.; Ahrens, J.; Andresen, H. G.; Bornheimer, A.; Conrath, D.; Dietz, K. J.; Gasteyer, W.; Gessinger, H.-J.; Hartmann, W.; Jethwa, J.; Kluge, H. J.; Kessler, H.; Kettner, T.; Koch, L.; Neugebauer, F.; Neuhausen, R.; Otten, E. W.; Reichert, E.; Schäfer, F. P.; Wagner, B.

doi:10.1016/0550-3213(89)90284-8

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Improved limits on the weak, neutral, hadronic axial vector coupling constants from quasielastic scattering of polarized electrons.

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Jethwa, J.
Abteilung Laserphysik, MPI for biophysical chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Schäfer, F. P.
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Heil, W., Ahrens, J., Andresen, H. G., Bornheimer, A., Conrath, D., Dietz, K. J., et al. (1989). Improved limits on the weak, neutral, hadronic axial vector coupling constants from quasielastic scattering of polarized electrons. Nuclear Physics B, 327(1), 1-31. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(89)90284-8.

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In scattering polarized electrons (P1 = 44% by 9Be at an energy of 300 MeV at angles 115°⩽ϑ⩽145° a parity violating asymmetry of Acorr = (−3.5 ± 0.7 ± 0.2) × 10−6 was measured. After correction for finite electron polarization and background we deduce an experimental asymmetry of Acx = (−9.4 ± 1.8 ± 0.5) × 10−6. The quoted errors indicate the statistical and the systematic uncertainties, respectively. The asymmetry, which is dominated by the quasielastic cross section, is interpreted in terms of model-independent electron-nucleon coupling constants of the weak neutral current. The error limits in the sector of axial vector coupling constants have been improved by a factor of 3 over previous results. A model-dependent analysis for the Weinberg angle yields the result sin2θw = 0.221 ± 0.014 ± 0.004.