University of Pennsylvania
Department of Physics and Astronomy
High Energy Physics Seminar
Jens Erler
Abstract:
Is there a hint for a new Z boson in the precision data?
The current electroweak data from atomic parity violation and elsewhere
are described better when an additional neutral gauge boson is included.
Among the possibilities are the extra Z' bosons predicted in simple
SO(10) Grand Unified Theories. If gauge coupling unification is assumed,
the mass of the hypothesized particle can be constraint and turns out
to be typically below 1 TeV.