The MOLLER Experiment: An Ultra-Precise Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle Using Møller Scattering

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.4088
• Publication Date: 2014-01-01
• Authors: MOLLER Collaboration; J. Benesch; P. Brindza; R. Carlini; J-P. Chen; E. Chudakov; S. Covrig; M. M. Dalton; A. Deur; D. Gaskell; A. Gavalya; J. Piedra Gomez; D. W. Higinbotham; C. E. Keppel; D. Meekins; R. Michaels; B. Moffit; Y. Roblin; R. Suleiman; R. Wines; B. Wojtsekhowski; G. D. Cates; Donald G. Crabb; Donal B. Day; K. Gnanvo; D. M. Keller; N. Liyanage; V. Nelyubin; H. Nguyen; B. Norum; K. Paschke; V. Sulkosky; J. Zhang; Xiaochao Zheng; J. Bírchall; P. G. Blunden; Michael Gericke; W. R. Falk; L. Lee; J. Mammei; S. A. Page; W. T. H. van Oers; K. Dehmelt; A. Deshpande; N. Feege; T. K. Hemmick; K.S. Kumar; T. Kutz; R. Miskimen; Michael J. Ramsey...; S. Riordan; N. Hirlinger Saylor; J. Bessuille; E. Ihloff; J. Kelsey; S. Kowalski; R. Silwal; G. de Cataldo; R. De Leo; D. Di Bari; L. Lagamba; Emilio Bellini; F. Mammoliti; F. Noto; M. L. Sperduto; C. Sutera; P. L. Cole; T. A. Forest; M. Khandekar; D. McNulty; Kurt Aulenbacher; S. Baunack; F. E. Maas; V. Tioukine; R. Gilman; K. E. Myers; R. D. Ransome; A.S. Tadepalli; R. Beniniwattha; R. Holmes; P. A. Souder; D. S. Armstrong; T. Averett; W. Deconinck; W. S. Duvall; A. Lee; M. Pitt; J. Dunne; D. Dutta; L. El Fassi; F. De Persio; F. Meddi; G. M. Urciuoli; E. Cisbani; C. Fanelli; F. Garibaldi; K. Johnston; N. Šimičević; S. P. Wells; P. M. King; J. Roche; J. Arrington; P. E. Reimer; G. Franklin; B. Quinn; A. Ahmidouch; S. Danagoulian; O. Glamazdin; R. Pomatsalyuk; Russell Mammei; James B. Martin; T. Holmstrom; Jens Erler; Yu. G. Kolomensky; J. Napolitano; K. Aniol; W. D. Ramsay; E. Korkmaz; D. T. Spayde; F. Benmokhtar; A. Del Dotto; R. Perrino; S. Barkanova; A. Aleksejevs; J. B. Singh
• Keywords: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); FOS: Physical sciences; Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Experiment; 7. Clean energy

The physics case and an experimental overview of the MOLLER (Measurement Of a Lepton Electroweak Reaction) experiment at 12 GeV upgraded Jefferson Lab are presented. A highlight Fundamental Symmetries subfield 2007 NSAC Long Range Plan was SLAC E158 measurement parity-violating asymmetry $A_{PV}$ in polarized electron-electron (M{\o}ller) scattering. proposed will improve on this result by factor five, yielding most precise weak mixing angle low or high energy anticipated over next decade. This new would be sensitive to interference electromagnetic amplitude with neutral current amplitudes as $\sim 10^{-3}\cdot G_F$ from yet undiscovered dynamics beyond Standard Model. resulting discovery reach is unmatched any measuring flavor- CP-conserving process decade, yields unique window MeV multi-TeV scales, complementary direct searches colliders such Large Hadron Collider (LHC). takes advantage opportunity provided electron beam energy, luminosity, stability Laboratory extensive experience accumulated community after round recent successfully completed scattering experiments