The Top Priority: Precision Electroweak Physics from Low to High Energy

Abstract

Overall, the Standard Model describes electroweak precision data rather well. There are however a few areas of tension (charged current universality, NuTeV, (g-2)_μ, b quark asymmetries), which I review emphasizing recent theoretical and experimental progress. I also discuss what precision data tell us about the Higgs boson and new physics scenarios. In this context, the role of a precise measurement of the top mass is crucial.

12 pages; invited talk at 21st International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies (LP 03), Batavia, Illinois, 11-16 Aug 2003

References in corpus (6)

• Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.7 ppm
• The SM prediction of g-2 of the muon
• Charge Symmetry Violation Corrections to Determination of the Weinberg Angle in Neutrino Reactions
• Paschos-Wolfenstein Relationship for Nuclei and the NuTeV sin^2(theta_W) Measurement
• Supersymmetric Effects in Deep Inelastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
• Current quark mass and g-2 of muon and ee-->ππ

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• Higgs Boson Properties in the Standard Model and its Supersymmetric Extensions
• The anomalous Higgs-top couplings in the MSSM
• Search for fermiophobic Higgs bosons in final states with photons at LEP 2
• Effect due to charge symmetry violation on the Paschos-Wolfenstein relation
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