Analysis of Electroweak Precision Data and Prospects for Future Improvements

Abstract

We update our previous work on an analysis of the electroweak data by including new and partly preliminary data available up to the 1996 summer conferences. The new results on the Z partial decay widths into b and c hadrons now offer a consistent interpretation of all data in the minimal standard model. The value extracted for the strong interaction coupling constant α_s(mZ) agrees well with determinations in other areas. New constraints on the universal parameters S, T and U are obtained from the updated measurements. No signal of new physics is found in the S,T,U analysis once the SM contributions with mt \sim 175GeV and those of not a too heavy Higgs boson are accounted for. The naive QCD-like technicolor model is now ruled out at the 99%CL even for the minimal model with SU(2)_{TC}. In the absence of a significant new physics effect in the electroweak observables, constraints on masses of the top quark, mt, and Higgs boson, mH, are derived as a function of α_s and the QED effective coupling $\bar{\alpha }(m_Z^2)$. The preferred range of mH depends rather strongly on the actual value of mt: mH<360 GeV for mt=170GeV, while mH>130GeV for mt=180GeV at 95%CL. Prospects due to forthcoming improved measurements of asymmetries, the mass of the weak boson W mW, mt and $\bar{\alpha }(m_Z^2)$ are discussed. Anticipating uncertainties of 0.00020 for $\sbar^2(m_Z^2)$, 20MeV for mW, and 2GeV for mt, the new physics contributions to the S,T,U parameters will be constrained more severely, and, within the SM, the logarithm of the Higgs mass can be constrained to about +-0.35. The better constraints on S,T,U and on mH within the minimal SM should be accompanied with matching precision in $\bar{\alpha }(m_Z^2)$.

48 pages, Latex, uses axodraw.sty, 32 Postscript figures, to be published in Z.Phys.C

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