New Developments in Precision Electroweak Physics

Abstract

Our picture of the electroweak interactions continues to improve, with ever more precise constraints on the masses of the Higgs boson(s) and on non-standard physics. Some recent developments include: (a) a calculation of higher-order effects on the weak mixing angle which reduces scheme-dependence, (b) a long-awaited improvement in the experimental accuracy of measurement of parity violation in atomic cesium, and (c) improvements in top quark and $W$ mass measurements from Fermilab and $W$ mass measurements from LEP.

Comments: 15 pages, latex, 3 figures