Heavy flavor lifetimes and lifetime differences

Conference · Wed Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2003

OSTI ID:815058

Rademacker, Jonas

The authors give an overview of heavy flavour lifetime measurements, focusing on recent results from the Tevatron and the B factories. In the first part of this article we summarize the status and latest measurements of B-hadron lifetimes and lifetime ratios, including some recent result from the Tevatron and the B factories, and compare those results with the predictions from Heavy Quark Expansion (HQE). Future prospects for lifetime measurements at the B factories and the Tevatron are discussed. In the second part, we review the status and prospects of measuring the difference between the lifetimes of the two CP eigenstates in the B{sub s}{sup 0}-{bar B}{sub s}{sup 0} system.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 815058
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-Conf-03/260; TRN: US0304431
• Resource Relation: Conference: 2nd Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, Durham (GB), 04/05/2003--04/09/2003; Other Information: PBD: 17 Sep 2003
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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