Electroweak Radiative Corrections To Polarized Møller Scattering Asymmetries

One loop electroweak radiative corrections to left-right parity violating Møller scattering (e−e− → e−e−) asymmetries are presented. They reduce the standard model (tree level) prediction by 40±3 % where the main shift and uncertainty stem from hadronic vacuum polarization loops. A similar reduction also occurs for the electron-electron atomic parity violating interaction. That effect can be attributed to an increase of sin θW (q 2) by 3% in running from q2 = mZ to 0. The sensitivity of the asymmetry to “new physics” is also discussed.