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| Format: | Preprint |
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2026
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20717 |
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- This contribution presents an overview of an improved extraction of the effective leptonic weak mixing angle, $\sin^2θ^\ell_{\mathrm{eff}}$, based on the published CMS measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in Drell-Yan events at 13 TeV [1]. While the original CMS analysis [2] achieved a significant reduction in experimental uncertainties, its overall precision remains limited by residual uncertainties in the parton distribution functions (PDFs). This proceeding highlights the impact of incorporating complementary CMS measurements that probe different combinations of parton densities, thereby providing additional PDF constraints beyond those obtained from the asymmetry measurement alone. The improved analysis leads to a substantially reduced total uncertainty, yielding $\sin^2θ^\ell_{\mathrm{eff}} = 0.23156\pm0.00024$. This result is consistent with the Standard Model prediction and represents the most precise single determination of this parameter to date.