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Hauptverfasser: Mękała, Krzysztof, Jeans, Daniel, Reuter, Jürgen, Tian, Junping, Żarnecki, Aleksander Filip
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Mękała, Krzysztof
Jeans, Daniel
Reuter, Jürgen
Tian, Junping
Żarnecki, Aleksander Filip
author_facet Mękała, Krzysztof
Jeans, Daniel
Reuter, Jürgen
Tian, Junping
Żarnecki, Aleksander Filip
contents Electroweak Precision Measurements are stringent tests of the Standard Model and sensitive probes to New Physics. Accurate studies of the $Z$-boson couplings to the first-generation quarks, which are currently constrained from LEP data to a few percent, could reveal potential discrepancies from the theory predictions. Future $e^+e^-$ colliders running at the $Z$-pole would be an excellent tool for an analysis based on a comparison of radiative and non-radiative $Z$ boson decays. In this paper, we present a method to extract the values of the $Z$ couplings to light quarks and discuss the uncertainty of the measurement, including contributions from various systematic effects. We show that systematic uncertainty in the heavy-flavour tagging performance is the key factor in the analysis and reducing it to a sub-permille level might be crucial to fully profit from the high luminosity of future $e^+e^-$ machines. The measurement could improve the LEP results by at least an order of magnitude.
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spellingShingle Determination of the first-generation quark couplings at the Z-pole
Mękała, Krzysztof
Jeans, Daniel
Reuter, Jürgen
Tian, Junping
Żarnecki, Aleksander Filip
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Electroweak Precision Measurements are stringent tests of the Standard Model and sensitive probes to New Physics. Accurate studies of the $Z$-boson couplings to the first-generation quarks, which are currently constrained from LEP data to a few percent, could reveal potential discrepancies from the theory predictions. Future $e^+e^-$ colliders running at the $Z$-pole would be an excellent tool for an analysis based on a comparison of radiative and non-radiative $Z$ boson decays. In this paper, we present a method to extract the values of the $Z$ couplings to light quarks and discuss the uncertainty of the measurement, including contributions from various systematic effects. We show that systematic uncertainty in the heavy-flavour tagging performance is the key factor in the analysis and reducing it to a sub-permille level might be crucial to fully profit from the high luminosity of future $e^+e^-$ machines. The measurement could improve the LEP results by at least an order of magnitude.
title Determination of the first-generation quark couplings at the Z-pole
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11365