@article{3075517, title = "Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of charm and bottom quarks at the Z pole using D*± mesons", author = "Abreu, P. and Adam, W. and Agasi, E. and Ajinenko, I. and Aleksan, R. and Alekseev, G.D. and Allport, P.P. and Almehed, S. and Almeida, F.M.L. and Alvsvaag, S.J. and Amaldi, U. and Andreazza, A. and Andrieux, M.L. and Antilogus, P. and Apel, W.-D. and Arnoud, Y. and Åsman, B. and Augustin, J.-E. and Augustinus, A. and Baillon, P. and Bambade, P. and Barao, F. and Barate, R. and Bardin, D.Y. and Barker, G.J. and Baroncelli, A. and Barring, O. and Barrio, J.A. and Bartl, W. and Bates, M.J. and Battaglia, M. and Baubillier, M. and Baudot, J. and Becks, K.-H. and Begalli, M. and Beilliere, P. and Belokopytov, Yu. and Beltran, P. and Benvenuti, A.C. and Berggren, M. and Bertrand, D. and Bianchi, F. and Bigi, M. and Bilenky, M.S. and Billoir, P. and Bjarne, J. and Bloch, D. and Blume, M. and Blyth, S. and Bocci, V. and Bolognese, T. and Bonesini, M. and Bonivento, W. and Booth, P.S.L. and Borisov, G. and Bosio, C. and Bostjancic, B. and Bosworth, S. and Botner, O. and Bouquet, B. and Bourdarios, C. and Bowcock, T.J.V. and Bozzo, M. and Branchini, P. and Brand, K.D. and Brenner, R.A. and Briand, H. and Bricman, C. and Brillault, L. and Brown, R.C.A. and Bruckman, P. and Brunet, J.-M. and Bugge, L. and Buran, T. and Buys, A. and Caccia, M. and Calvi, M. and Camacho Rozas, A.J. and Camporesi, T. and Canale, V. and Canepa, M. and Cankocak, K. and Cao, F. and Carena, F. and Carrilho, P. and Carroll, L. and Caso, C. and Cassio, V. and Castillo Gimenez, M.V. and Cattai, A. and Cavallo, F.R. and Cerrito, L. and Chabaud, V. and Chan, A. and Charpentier, Ph. and Chaussard, L. and Chauveau, J. and Checchia, P. and Chelkov, G.A. and Chliapnikov, P. and Chochula, P. and Chorowicz, V. and Chrin, J.T.M. and Cindro, V. and Collins, P. and Contreras, J.L. and Contri, R. and Cortina, E. and Cosme, G. and Cossutti, F. and Couchot, F. and Crawley, H.B. and Crennell, D. and Crosetti, G. and Cuevas Maestro, J. and Czellar, S. and Dahl-Jensen, E. and Dahm, J. and Dalmagne, B. and Dam, M. and Damgaard, G. and Daum, A. and Dauncey, P.D. and Davenport, M. and Da Silva, W. and Defoix, C. and Dellaricca, G. and Ricca, G.D. and Delpierre, P. and Demaria, N. and De Angelis, A. and De Boeck, H. and De Boer, W. and De Brabandere, S. and De Clereq, C. and De Fez Laso, M.D.M. and De La Vaissiere, C. and De Lotto, B. and De Min, A. and De Paula, A. and De Saint-Jean, C. and Dijkstra, H. and Di Ciaccio, L. and Djama, F. and Dolbeau, J. and Donszelmann, M. and Doroba, K. and Dracos, M. and Drees, J. and Drees, K.-A. and Dris, M. and Dufour, Y. and Dupont, F. and Edsall, D. and Ehret, R. and Ekelof, T. and Ekspong, G. and Elsing, M. and Engel, J.-P. and Ershaidat, N. and Santo, M.E. and Fassouliotis, D. and Feindt, M. and Fenyuk, A. and Ferrer, A. and Filippas, T.A. and Firestone, A. and Foeth, H. and Fokitis, E. and Fontanelli, F. and Formenti, F. and Fousset, J.-L. and Franek, B. and Frenkiel, P. and Fries, D.C. and Frodesen, A.G. and Fruhwirth, R. and Fulda-Quenzer, F. and Furstenau, H. and Fuster, J. and Gamba, D. and Gandelman, M. and Garcia, C. and Garcia, J. and Gaspar, C. and Gasparini, U. and Gavillet, Ph. and Gazis, E.N. and Gele, D. and Gerber, J.-P. and Gillespie, D. and Gokieli, R. and Golob, B. and Gomez Y Cadenas, J.J. and Gopal, G. and Gorn, L. and Gorski, M. and Gracco, V. and Grard, F. and Graziani, E. and Grosdidier, G. and Gunnarsson, P. and Guy, J. and Haedinger, U. and Hahn, F. and Hahn, M. and Hahn, S. and Haider, S. and Hajduk, Z. and Hakansson, A. and Hallgren, A. and Hamacher, K. and Hao, W. and Harris, F.J. and Hedberg, V. and Henriques, R. and Hernandez, J.J. and Hernando, J.A. and Herquet, P. and Herr, H. and Hessing, T.L. and Higon, E. and Hilke, H.J. and Hill, T.S. and Holmgren, S.-O. and Holt, P.J. and Holthuizen, D. and Honore, P.F. and Houlden, M. and Hrubec, J. and Huet, K. and Hultqvist, K. 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SECTION C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS", year = "1995", volume = "66", number = "3", pages = "341-354", publisher = "Springer-Verlag", issn = "0170-9739", doi = "10.1007/BF01556359", abstract = "The forward-backward asymmetries for the processes {Mathematical expression} and {Mathematical expression} at the Z resonance are measured using identified D*± mesons. In 905,000 selected hadronic events, taken in 1991 and 1992 with the DEL-PHI detector at LEP, 4757 D*+→D0π+ decays are reconstructed. The c and b quark forward-backward asymmetries are determined to be: {Mathematical expression} Constraining the b asymmetry to the value measured by DELPHI using independent analyses, the charm asymmetry is determined to be: {Mathematical expression}. This result corresponds to an effective electroweak mixing angle measured using charm quark events of: {Mathematical expression} © 1995 Springer-Verlag." }