
arXiv: hep-ph/9601222
The most important hint of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) from the 1995 precision electroweak data is that the most precisely measured quantities, the total, leptonic and hadronic decay widths of the $Z$ and the effective weak mixing angle, $\sin^2��_W$, measured at LEP and SLC, and the quark-lepton universality of the weak charged currents measured at low energies, all agree with the predictions of the SM at a few $\times 10^{-3}$ level. By taking into account the above constraints I examine implications of three possible disagreements between experiments and the SM predictions. It is difficult to interpret the 11\% (2.5-$��$) deficit of the $Z$-partial-width ratio $R_c=��_c/��_h$, since it either implies an unacceptably large $��_s$ or a subtle cancellation among hadronic $Z$ decay widths in order to keep all the other successful predictions of the SM. The 2\% (3-$��$) excess of the ratio $R_b=��_b/��_h$ may indicate the presence of a new rather strong interaction, such as the top-quark Yukawa coupling in the supersymmetric (SUSY) SM or a new interaction responsible for the large top-quark mass in the Technicolor scenario of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking. Another interpretation may be additional tree-level gauge interactions that couple only to the third generation of fermions. A common consequence of these attempts is a rather small $��_s$, $��_s(\mz )_{\msbar}=0.104\pm 0.08$. The 0.17\% (1-$��$) deficit ...
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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), FOS: Physical sciences
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), FOS: Physical sciences
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