1. A measurement of B+ and B0 lifetimes using $$\bar D\ell ^ + $$ events
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A. G. Olshevski, K. Stepaniak, H. Furstenau, Maria Roberta Monge, A. Zalewska, W. T. Meyer, M. Feindt, S. Sánchez Navas, P. Negri, C. Vander Velde, Jacques Lemonne, F. Stichelbaut, Tord Ekelof, H. Staeck, G. A. Chelkov, Ugo Amaldi, W. De Boer, E. Zevgolatakos, Göran Jarlskog, A. N. Sisakian, R. Mc Kay, Laurent Mirabito, A. Andreazza, B. Loerstad, G. Sciolla, O. Podobrin, A. Sadovsky, Ugo Gasparini, W. D. Apel, Luis Peralta, F. Kapusta, W. Van Doninck, R. Sosnowski, P. Vincent, F. Naraghi, K. A. Drees, T. Todorov, M. Wielers, Guido Barbiellini, J. Guy, A. Lopez-Fernandez, Dietrich Liko, P. Privitera, Jorge-Armando Benitez Garcia, Manfred Krammer, Robert S. Brown, J. E. Augustin, A. Pullia, Z. Krumstein, A. Baroncelli, Tim Adye, C. Zacharatou, M. Michelotto, O. Yushchenko, R. Keranen, Francisco Matorras, D. Gillespie, Chariclia Petridou, A. Galloni, D. Souza-Santos, R. Sekulin, S. O. Holmgren, L. S. Vertogradov, M. L. Turluer, D. Reid, Klaus Hamacher, P. Kubinec, Clara Troncon, J. P. Tavernet, Branislav Sitar, V. Obraztsov, Daniel Treille, M. Bigi, G. Vegni, G. Valenti, G. W. Van Apeldoorn, A. De Min, A. Trombini, I. Roncagliolo, J. Ridky, T. Moa, G. Maehlum, Matteo Pegoraro, W. Oberschulte-Beckmann, R. A. Brenner, S. J. Alvsvaag, E. Agasi, I. Siccama, R. C. Shellard, L. Di Ciaccio, Josef Hrubec, Gianni Zumerle, Stefano Ragazzi, C. Kreuter, C. Parkes, P. Van Dam, F. Formenti, Nikita Smirnov, F. Pierre, L. Ventura, K. Yip, Y. Lemoigne, Vincent Hedberg, D. W. Lane, C. Caso, M. Battaglia, P. Poropat, G. Sajot, Fares Djama, A. M. Segar, F. Cao, Andromachi Tsirou, F. Fontanelli, S. Marti i Garcia, D. Edsall, G. Grosdidier, K. D. Brand, N. I. Zimin, G. Ekspong, I. Lippi, William Trischuk, A. Markou, J. Dolbeau, O. Smirnova, Patrick Jarry, G. Rinaudo, Marek Szczekowski, Alessandra Romero, Andre Augustinus, A. Wehr, J. P. Gerber, W. Neumann, W. Kucewicz, P. N. Ratoff, Marc Winter, F. Carena, S. Simonetti, Tiziano Rovelli, M. Begalli, M. Reale, Mogens Dam, J. H. Wickens, G. Borisov, R. Henriques, C. De La Vaissiere, A. Ruiz, Tiziano Camporesi, D. Vilanova, Y. Dufour, M. A E Schyns, J. M. Lopez, Themistocles Bowcock, Mariusz Witek, N. Ershaidat, A. Ferrer, V. Bocci, J-C. Marin, P. Bambade, B. Muryn, M. Baubillier, Achille Stocchi, P.S.L. Booth, Marco Paganoni, Jose Luis Contreras, Charles Bricman, H. B. Crawley, A. Tomaradze, W.S.C. Williams, M. Weierstall, B. Erzen, R. Gokieli, M. Gunther, P. Gunnarsson, Spyros Tzamarias, O. Tchikilev, M. Pernicka, A. Onofre, Rupert Leitner, G. Piana, E. K. Johansson, G. Matthiae, Steinar Stapnes, F. Zach, H. Wahlen, Borge Svane Nielsen, Jesus Marco, G. Lenzen, R. Strub, C. Joram, A. Tilquin, Josef Strauss, O. Kouznetsov, Sandor Czellar, G. Polok, V. Chabaud, W. Venus, L. Vitale, D. Radojicic, Lucio Cerrito, V. Chorowicz, L. Brillault, Pawel Jalocha, Barry King, J. P. Engel, M. V. Castillo Gimenez, J. H. Koehne, E. Spiriti, Stanislav Nemecek, R. Frühwirth, J. Timmermans, N. Pukhaeva, J. Dahm, Yu. Gouz, M. Davenport, P. Herquet, P. Niss, N. Vassilopoulos, Luc Pape, Alexander Vodopyanov, F. Bianchi, Martino Margoni, E. Fokitis, G. D. Alekseev, Christine Kourkoumelis, E. Dahl-Jensen, V. Malychev, E. I. Rosenberg, K. Kurvinen, G. Cosme, E. Rosso, H. Klein, K. Osterberg, P. Carrilho, J. J. Hernandez, S. De Brabandere, R. Nicolaidou, R. Contri, D. Wicke, Javier Sánchez, P. J. Holt, N. G. Redaelli, Marco Bozzo, Mario Sannino, Ernesto Migliore, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider, K. H. Becks, E. Vallazza, B. Dalmagne, M. Verlato, Krzysztof Doroba, Chiara Meroni, Louis Lyons, R. Aleksan, P. Delpierre, P. Lutz, V. Ronjin, F. Martinez-Vidal, V. Kostioukhine, M. Koratzinos, E. Karvelas, P. Bruckman, A. Maio, C. Martinez-Rivero, L. Bugge, Paul Dauncey, N. Demaria, G. Damgaard, I. Kronkvist, M. Mazzucato, F. Simonetto, K. Hultqvist, A. Lipniacka, A. G. Frodesen, Maria Elena Pol, Milos Lokajicek, S. Katsanevas, R. Lindner, J. Cuevas Maestro, Demetrios Loukas, G. Leder, G. Myatt, J.D. Richardson, Richard Jacobsson, B. Åsman, A. Petrolini, W. Krupinski, A. J. Camacho Rozas, D. Z. Toet, P. Siegrist, P. Frenkiel, Peter Kluit, M. J. Bates, Manolis Dris, M. Gibbs, V. Gracco, F. Waldner, B. De Lotto, P. Roudeau, G. Crosetti, Evgueni Vlasov, V. Lefebure, Z. Hajduk, D. Crennell, F. Mandl, D. Bertrand, L. Tortora, F. J. Harris, I. Ripp, R. Janik, A. Klovning, Y. Arnoud, U. Mjoernmark, C. Bosio, H. J. Hilke, P. B. Renton, R. Moeller, H. Herr, Paolo Ronchese, Maciej Górski, D. Y. Bardin, Alberto Benvenuti, L. G. Tkatchev, M. Karlsson, N. J. Kjaer, V. Nikolaenko, Carlos Lacasta, T. A. Filippas, M. Regler, A. Seitz, D. J. Holthuizen, L. K. Resvanis, B. Tome, P. Antilogus, B. Koene, E. Cortina, D. C. Fries, Massimo Caccia, J. Baudot, C. Walck, M. Berggren, Toralf Bernhard Skaali, T. Spassov, D. Gamba, Y. Sacquin, Oleg Solovyanov, R. Lauhakangas, Ph. Charpentier, H. T. Phillips, Vladimir Cindro, W. Ruckstuhl, M. L. Andrieux, T. L. Hessing, P. V. Chliapnikov, R. Ehret, G. Tristram, Yu. Sedykh, P. Juillot, H. Mueller, Paolo Morettini, B. Marechal, E. C. Katsoufis, J. G. Loken, C. De Saint-Jean, P. Beilliere, Wolfgang Adam, Marta Calvi, Klaus Moenig, Fabrizio Parodi, F. Dupont, A. Normand, F. Verbeure, M. S. Bilenky, Vincenzo Canale, Geoffrey Smith, M. A. Houlden, L.J. Carroll, A. Passeri, Yu. Belokopytov, M. Donszelmann, R. Barate, G. E. Kalmus, Danilo Zavrtanik, H. Palka, J. Medbo, Andrea Perrotta, Fabio Cossutti, W. Hao, P. Weilhammer, J. W. Lamsa, Jan Krolikowski, Luiz Mundim, N. N. Khovanski, W. Bartl, M. Blume, F. Barao, T. Lesiak, B. Stugu, M. A. Lopez Aguera, S. Lamblot, W. Da Silva, M. Gandelman, Phillip Allport, G. Della Ricca, W. A. Mitaroff, Th. D. Papadopoulou, G. Smadja, J. Van Eldik, R. Orava, Heinz Pernegger, G. Eigen, O. Barring, T. S. Hill, J. P. Laugier, E. Higon, S. C. Blyth, G. Wilkinson, S. Bosworth, B. Bouquet, F. Richard, P. Chochula, C. Matteuzzi, A. Daum, S. Ueberschaer, Cristian Stanescu, M. Hahn, S. Almehed, P. Branchini, R. Chierici, M. Pimenta, B. A. Khomenko, H. Schneider, F. Hahn, F. Scuri, R. Mc Nulty, A. M. Wetherell, Francesco Navarria, H. De Boeck, L. Lanceri, Stéphane Plaszczynski, P. Langefeld, Gary John Barker, B. Jean-Marie, M. Tyndel, K. Woschnagg, T. Maron, P. Abreu, A. Firestone, G. Gopal, D. Gele, A. Buys, L. De Paula, L. Gorn, E. Falk, I. Stavitski, Juan Abel Barrio, P. Pages, M. Zito, Paul Baillon, Sandra Amato, D. Zontar, Alexander Lincoln Read, M. Szeptycka, Chiara Mariotti, M. Prest, R. Mc Cubbin, Allan Hallgren, S. Hahn, Francesca Romana Cavallo, Imad Baptiste Laktineh, U. Haedinger, C. De Clercq, S. Squarcia, H. Saarikko, T. Tabarelli, W. J. Murray, P. Rebecchi, H. Rahmani, D. Fassouliotis, Ariella Cattai, F. Ledroit, J. Fuster, O. Ullaland, Leif J. Jönsson, Andrei Nomerotski, B. Franek, Lydia Roos, J. Drees, Evangelos Gazis, M. Dracos, L. Chaussard, P. A. Fischer, P. Joannou, J. Chauveau, I. A. Tyapkin, I. V. Ajinenko, M. Bonesini, Kathy Huet, Valeriy Pozdniakov, T. Bolognese, Per Jönsson, W. Bonivento, Kerem Cankocak, Piotr Zalewski, V.A. Uvarov, J. N. Jackson, B. Golob, T. Buran, Markus Elsing, J. Rames, P. Kokkinias, C. K. Legan, R. Zuberi, Olga Botner, P. H. Kramer, G. Transtromer, Carmen García, Pierre Billoir, H. Foeth, B. Ueberschaer, A. De Angelis, P. Collins, Maurizio Canepa, Daniel Bloch, Ahmimed Ouraou, M. Chapkin, Vaclav Vrba, C. Defoix, Hans Dijkstra, F. Fulda-Quenzer, C. Gaspar, E. Graziani, J. M. Brunet, A. B. Fenyuk, G. C. Zucchelli, V. Lepeltier, Paolo Checchia, Ph. Gavillet, M. Kaiser, J. MacNaughton, Claire Bourdarios, P. Paganini, and M. Nieuwenhuizen
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Physics ,Particle physics ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,Meson ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Electron–positron annihilation ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,Nuclear physics ,0103 physical sciences ,Decay length ,Large Electron–Positron Collider ,D meson ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,B meson ,Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,Lepton ,Bar (unit) - Abstract
A measurement of B meson lifetimes is presented using data collected from 1991 to 1993 by the DELPHI detector at the LEP collider. Samples of events with a D meson and a lepton in the same jet are selected where\(\bar D^{^0 } \ell ^ + \) and D*l+ events originate mainly from the semileptonic decays of B+ and B0 mesons, respectively. From the reconstructed B decay length and the estimated B momentum, taking into account the dilution due to B decays into\(\bar D^{^{**} } \ell ^ + v\), the following B meson lifetimes and lifetime ratio are measured: $$\begin{gathered} \tau (B^ + ) = 1.61_{ - 0.16}^{ + 0.16} (stat.) \pm 0.12(syst.) ps \hfill \\ \tau (B^0 ) = 1.61_{ - 0.13}^{ + 0.14} (stat.) \pm 0.08(syst.) ps \hfill \\ \tau (B^ + )/\tau (B^0 ) = 1.00_{ - 0.15}^{ + 0.17} (stat.) \pm 0.10(syst.) \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$ and an average lifetime of B+ and B0 mesons is obtained: $$\tau (B) = 1.61_{ - 0.07}^{ + 0.08} (stat.) \pm 0.05(syst.) ps$$
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- 1995