THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Abstract
The bb forward-backward asymmetry has been determined from the average charge how measured in a sample of 3,500,000 hadronic Z decays collected with the DELPHI detector in 1992 - 1995. The measurement is performed in an enriched b (b) over bar sample selected using an impact parameter tag and results in the following values for the bl; forward-backward asymmetry: A(FB)(b (b) over bar) (89.55 GeV) = 0.068 +/- 0.016 (stat.) +/- 0.0013(syst.) A(FB)(b (b) over bar)(91.26 GeV) = 0.0982 +/- 0.0047(stat.) +/- 0.0016(syst.) A(FB)(b (b) over bar)(92.94 GeV) = 0.123 +/- 0.016 (stat.) +/- 0.0027(syst.) The b (b) over bar charge separation required for this analysis is directly measured in the b tagged sample, while the other charge separations are obtained from a fragmentation model precisely calibrated to data. The effective weak mixing angle is deduced from the measurement to be: sin(2)theta(eff)1 = 0.23186 +/- 0.00063. RI De Angelis, Alessandro/B-5372-2009; Gonzalez Caballero, Isidro/E-7354-2010; Krammer, Manfred/A-6508-2010; Muresan, Raluca-Anca/C-3725-2011; Katsanevas, Stavros/A-4297-2011; Ruiz, Alberto/E-4473-2011; Marti-Garcia, Salvador/F-3085-2011; Verzi, Valerio/B-1149-2012; branchini, paolo/A-4857-2011; Shellard, Ronald/G-4825-2012; Monge, Maria Roberta/G-9127-2012; Petrolini, Alessandro/H-3782-2011; Fruhwirth, Rudolf/H-2529-2012
