Hadronic gamma-Z box corrections in M\oller scattering
arXiv:1311.3389 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.02.049
Abstract
The possibility of measuring the parity-violating asymmetry in M\oller scattering with sufficient accuracy to determine sin^2 theta_W to 0.1% offers a complementary path to the discovery of new physics to that followed at high energy colliders. We present a new calculation of the gamma-Z box contribution to parity-violating electron-proton scattering, which constitutes an important uncertainty in computing the background to this process. We show that while the gamma-Z correction grows rapidly with energy, it can be relatively well constrained by data from parity-violating inelastic scattering and parton distribution functions.
9 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Lett. B