Polarized Bhabha Scattering and a Precision Measurement of the Electron Neutral Current Couplings

Bhabha scattering with polarized electrons at the Z0 resonance has been measured with the SLD experiment at the SLAC Linear Collider. The first measurement of the left-right asymmetry in Bhabha scattering is presented, yielding the effective weak mixing angle of sin2θWeff=0.2245±0.0049±0.0010. The effective electron couplings to the Z0 are extracted from a combined analysis of polarized Bhabha scattering and the left-right asymmetry previously published: υe=-0.0414±0.0020 and ae=-0.4977±0.0045.