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Measurement of theBd0Bd0oscillation frequency using dimuon data inpp¯collisions ats=1.8 TeV
- Source :
- Physical Review D. 60
- Publication Year :
- 1999
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 1999.
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Abstract
- ${B}_{d}^{0}\ensuremath{-}{B}_{d}^{0}$ oscillations are observed in ``self-tagged'' samples of partially reconstructed $B$ mesons decaying into a lepton and a charmed meson collected in $p\overline{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.8\mathrm{TeV}.$ A flavor tagging technique is employed which relies upon the correlation between the flavor of $B$ mesons and the charge of a nearby particle. We measure the flavor oscillation frequency to be $\ensuremath{\Delta}{m}_{d}{=0.471}_{\ensuremath{-}0.068}^{+0.078}\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.034{\mathrm{ps}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}1}.$ The tagging method is also demonstrated in exclusive samples of ${B}_{u}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}{K}^{+}$ and ${B}_{d}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}{K}^{*0}(892),$ where similar flavor-charge correlations are observed. The tagging characteristics of the various samples are compared with each other, and with Monte Carlo simulations.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Particle physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Luminosity (scattering theory)
Muon
Meson
Oscillation
High Energy Physics::Phenomenology
Hadron
Quark model
Charge (physics)
Elementary particle
Fermion
Quarkonium
Particle detector
Nuclear physics
Particle decay
B meson
High Energy Physics::Experiment
Collider Detector at Fermilab
Lepton
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10894918 and 05562821
- Volume :
- 60
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review D
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7ff255bf179bf462a2b5af282213a960