1. Measurement of the lifetime of the B-s(0) meson using the exclusive decay mode B-s(0)->J/psi phi
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Abe, F, Akimoto, H, Akopian, A, Albrow, MG, Amendolia, SR, Amidei, D, Antos, J, AnwayWiese, C, Aota, S, Apollinari, G, Asakawa, T, Ashmanskas, W, Atac, M, Azfar, F, AzziBacchetta, P, Bacchetta, N, Badgett, W, Bagdasarov, S, Bailey, MW, Bao, J, deBarbaro, P, BarbaroGaltieri, A, Barnes, VE, Barnett, BA, Barzi, E, Bauer, G, Baumann, T, Bedeschi, F, Behrends, S, Belforte, S, Bellettini, G, Bellinger, J, Benjamin, D, Benlloch, J, Bensinger, J, Benton, D, Beretvas, A, Berge, JP, Berryhill, J, Bertolucci, S, Bhatti, A, Biery, K, Binkley, M, Bisello, D, Blair, RE, Blocker, C, Bodek, A, Bokhari, W, Bolognesi, V, Bortoletto, D, Boudreau, J, Breccia, L, Bromberg, C, Bruner, N, BuckleyGeer, E, Budd, HS, Burkett, K, Busetto, G, ByonWagner, A, Byrum, KL, Cammerata, J, Campagnari, C, Campbell, M, Caner, A, Carithers, W, Carlsmith, D, Castro, A, Cauz, D, Cen, Y, Cervelli, F, Chang, PS, Chang, PT, Chao, HY, Chapman, J, Cheng, MT, Chiarelli, G, Chikamatsu, T, Chiou, CN, Christofek, L, Cihangir, S, Clark, AG, Cobal, M, Contreras, M, Conway, J, Cooper, J, Cordelli, M, Couyoumtzelis, C, Crane, D, CroninHennessy, D, Culbertson, R, Cunningham, JD, Daniels, T, DeJongh, F, Delchamps, S, DellAgnello, S, DellOrso, M, Demina, R, Demortier, L, Denby, B, Deninno, M, Derwent, PF, Devlin, T, Dittmann, JR, Donati, S, Done, J, Dorigo, T, Dunn, A, Eddy, N, Einsweiler, K, Elias, JE, Ely, R, Engels, E, Errede, D, Errede, S, Fan, Q, Fiori, I, Flaugher, B, Foster, GW, Franklin, M, Frautschi, M, Freeman, J, Friedman, J, Fuess, TA, Fukui, Y, Funaki, S, Gagliardi, G, Galeotti, S, Gallinaro, M, GarciaSciveres, M, Garfinkel, AF, Gay, C, Geer, S, Gerdes, DW, Giannetti, P, Giokaris, N, Giromini, P, Gladney, L, Glenzinski, D, Gold, M, Gonzalez, J, Gordon, A, Goshaw, AT, Goulianos, K, Grassmann, H, Groer, L, GrossoPilcher, C, Guillian, G, Guo, RS, Haber, C, Hafen, E, Hahn, SR, Hamilton, R, Handler, R, Hans, RM, Hara, K, Hardman, AD, Harral, B, Harris, RM, Hauger, SA, Hauser, J, Hawk, C, Hayashi, E, Heinrich, J, Hoffman, KD, Hohlmann, M, Holck, C, Hollebeek, R, Holloway, L, Holscher, A, Hong, S, Houk, G, Hu, P, Huffman, BT, Hughes, R, Huston, J, Huth, J, Hylen, J, Ikeda, H, Incagli, M, Incandela, J, Introzzi, G, Iwai, J, Iwata, Y, Jensen, H, Joshi, U, Kadel, RW, Kajfasz, E, Kambara, H, Kamon, T, Kaneko, T, Karr, K, Kasha, H, Kato, Y, Keaffaber, TA, Keeble, L, Kelley, K, Kennedy, RD, Kephart, R, Kesten, P, Kestenbaum, D, Keup, RM, Keutelian, H, Keyvan, F, Kharadia, B, Kim, BJ, Kim, DH, Kim, HS, Kim, SB, Kim, SH, Kim, YK, Kirsch, L, Koehn, P, Kondo, K, Konigsberg, J, Kopp, S, Kordas, K, Korytov, A, Koska, W, Kovacs, E, Kowald, W, Krasberg, M, Kroll, J, Kruse, M, Kuwabara, T, Kuhlmann, SE, Kuns, E, Laasanen, AT, Labanca, N, Lammel, S, Lamoureux, JI, LeCompte, T, Leone, S, Lewis, JD, Limon, P, Lindgren, M, Liss, TM, Lockyer, N, Long, O, Loomis, C, Loreti, M, Lu, J, Lucchesi, D, Lukens, P, Lusin, S, Lys, J, Maeshima, K, Maghakian, A, Maksimovic, P, Mangano, M, Mansour, J, Mariotti, M, Marriner, JP, Martin, A, Matthews, JAJ, Mattingly, R, McIntyre, P, Melese, P, Menzione, A, Meschi, E, Metzler, S, Miao, C, Miao, T, Michail, G, Miller, R, Minato, H, Miscetti, S, Mishina, M, Mitsushio, H, Miyamoto, T, Miyashita, S, Moggi, N, Morita, Y, Mueller, J, Mukherjee, A, Muller, T, Murat, P, Nakada, H, Nakano, I, Nelson, C, Neuberger, D, NewmanHolmes, C, Ninomiya, M, Nodulman, L, Oh, SH, Ohl, KE, Ohmoto, T, Ohsugi, T, Oishi, R, Okabe, M, Okusawa, T, Oliveira, R, Olsen, J, Pagliarone, C, Paoletti, R, Papadimitriou, V, Pappas, SP, Park, S, Parri, A, Patrick, J, Pauletta, G, Paulini, M, Perazzo, A, Pescara, L, Peters, MD, Phillips, TJ, Piacentino, G, Pillai, M, Pitts, KT, Plunkett, R, Pondrom, L, Proudfoot, J, Ptohos, F, Punzi, G, Ragan, K, Ribon, A, Rimondi, F, Ristori, L, Robertson, WJ, Rodrigo, T, Rolli, S, Romano, J, Rosenson, L, Roser, R, Sakumoto, WK, Saltzberg, D, Sansoni, A, Santi, L, Sato, H, Scarpine, V, Schlabach, P, Schmidt, EE, Schmidt, MP, Scribano, A, Segler, S, Seidel, S, Seiya, Y, Sganos, G, Shapiro, MD, Shaw, NM, Shen, Q, Shepard, PF, Shimojima, M, Shochet, M, Siegrist, J, Sill, A, Sinervo, P, Singh, P, Skarha, J, Sliwa, K, Snider, FD, Song, T, Spalding, J, Speer, T, Sphicas, P, Spinella, F, Spiropulu, M, Spiegel, L, Stanco, L, Steele, J, Stefanini, A, Strahl, K, Strait, J, Strohmer, R, Stuart, D, Sullivan, G, Soumarokov, A, Sumorok, K, Suzuki, J, Takada, T, Takahashi, T, Takano, T, Takikawa, K, Tamura, N, Tartarelli, F, Taylor, W, Teng, PK, Teramoto, Y, Tether, S, Theriot, D, Thomas, TL, Thun, R, Timko, M, Tipton, P, Titov, A, Tkaczyk, S, Toback, D, Tollefson, K, Tollestrup, A, Tonnison, J, deTroconiz, JF, Truitt, S, Tseng, J, Turini, N, Uchida, T, Uemura, N, Ukegawa, F, Unal, G, vandenBrink, SC, Vejcik, S, Velev, G, Vidal, R, Vondracek, H, Vucinic, D, Wagner, RG, Wagner, RL, Wahl, J, Wang, C, Wang, CH, Wang, G, Wang, J, Wang, MJ, Wang, QF, Warburton, A, Watts, T, Webb, R, Wei, C, Wendt, C, Wenzel, H, Wester, WC, Wicklund, AB, Wicklund, E, Wilkinson, 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DETECTOR ,B+ - Abstract
The lifetime of the Bs 0 meson is measured using the exclusive decay mode Bs 0 → J / ψ φ, where J/ψ → μ+μ- and φ → K+K-. The data sample consists of 110 pb-1 of p p̄ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV, collected by the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider during 1992-1995. We find 58 ± 12 signal events, and the Bs 0 meson lifetime is determined to be τBs0; = 1.34-0.19 +0.23(stat) ± 0.05(syst) ps. This result is consistent with previous measurements of the Bs 0, B+, and Bd 0 meson lifetimes and with theoretical predictions.
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- 1996