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arxiv: hep-ph/9806483 · v3 · submitted 1998-06-25 · ✦ hep-ph

On the numerical closeness of the effective phenomenological electroweak mixing angle θ and the MS parameter hatθ

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It happens that $s^2$ and $\hat s^2$ are equal with 0.1% accuracy, though they are split by radiative corrections and a natural estimate for their difference is 1%. This degeneracy occurs only for $m_t$ value close to $170\GeV$, so no deep physical reason can be attributed to it. However, another puzzle of the Standard Model, the degeneracy of $s_\Eff^2$ and $s^2$, is not independent of the previous one since a good physical reason exists for $s_\Eff^2$ and $\hat s^2$ degeneracy. We present explicit formulas which relate these three angles.

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