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SLAC-PUB-6969
First Measurement of the T-odd Correlation Between the Z0 Spin and the Three Jet Plane Orientation in Polarized Z0 Decays to Three Jets

Abstract

We present the first measurement of the correlation between the $Z^0$ spin and the three-jet plane orientation in polarized $Z^0$ decays into three jets in the SLD experiment at SLAC utilizing a longitudinally polarized electron beam. The CP-even and T-odd triple product $\vec{S_Z}\cdot(\vec{k_1}\times \vec{k_2})$ formed from the two fastest jet momenta, $\vec{k_1}$ and $\vec{k_2}$, and the $Z^0$ polarization vector $\vec{S_Z}$, is sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model. We measure the expectation value of this quantity to be consistent with zero and set 95\% C.L. limits of $-0.022 < \beta < 0.039$ on the correlation between the $Z^0$-spin and the three-jet plane \hbox{orientation}. \vspace{0.5cm} \centerline{Submitted to Physical Review Letters} \vbox{ \uchyph=200%%Controls hyphenation%%%%%%%%%%%% \brokenpenalty=200 %%Specifies penalty for pagebreak after discretionary item \pretolerance=10000 %%Specifies tolerable badness for line breaks w/o hyphens \tolerance=2000 %%Specifies tolerable badness for line breaks w hyphenation \nobreak%%forces line not to break \penalty 5000%%Neg encourages line break 10,000+ prevents break \hyphenpenalty=5000%%Penalty for hyphens increase to discourage break \exhyphenpenalty=5000 %Penalty for explicit hyphen Increase to discourage break \footnotesize\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1}\noindent $^*$This work was supported by Department of Energy contracts: DE-FG02-91ER40676 (BU), DE-FG03-92ER40701 (CIT), DE-FG03-91ER40618 (UCSB), DE-FG03-92ER40689 (UCSC), DE-FG03-93ER40788 (CSU), DE-FG02-91ER40672 (Colorado), DE-FG02-91ER40677 (Illinois), DE-AC03-76SF00098 (LBL), DE-FG02-92ER40715 (Massachusetts), DE-AC02-76ER03069 (MIT), DE-FG06-85ER40224 (Oregon), DE-AC03-76SF00515 (SLAC), DE-FG05-91ER40627 (Tennessee), DE-AC02-76ER00881 (Wisconsin), DE-FG02-92ER40704 (Yale); National Science Foundation grants: PHY-91-13428 (UCSC), PHY-89-21320 (Columbia), PHY-92-04239 (Cincinnati), PHY-88-17930 (Rutgers), PHY-88-19316 (Vanderbilt), PHY-92-03212 (Washington); the UK Science and Engineering Research Council (Brunel and RAL); the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy (Bologna, Ferrara, Frascati, Pisa, Padova, Perugia); and the Japan-US Cooperative Research Project on High Energy Physics (Nagoya, Tohoku).} \newpage \normalsize

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