Preliminary measurement of time-dependent B{sub d}{sup 0}-B{sub d}{sup 0} mixing using topology and charge selected semi-leptonic B decays
The time dependence of B{sub d}{sup 0}-B{sub d}{sup 0} mixing has been measured using a sample of 150,000 hadronic Z{sup 0} decays collected by the SLD experiment at the SLC between 1993 and 1995. The analysis identifies the semileptonic decays of B mesons with high (p, p{sub t}) leptons and reconstructs the B meson decay length and charge by vertexing the lepton with a partially reconstructed D meson. Vertex charge is used to enrich the selection of neutral over charged B mesons. This method results in a sample of 581 neutral decays with high charge purity. The B candidate is tagged at production with a combined tag that exploits the large polarized b forward-backward asymmetry in conjunction with the opposite hemisphere b jet charge. The final state is tagged by the sign of the high (p, p{sub t}) lepton. From their preliminary analysis the authors find a mass difference between the two B{sub d}{sup 0} mass eigenstates of, {Delta}m{sub d} = 0.452 {+-} 0.074(stat) {+-} 0.049(syst) ps{sup {minus}1}.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States); National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States); Science and Engineering Research Council, Swindon (United Kingdom); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Rome (Italy); Japan-US Cooperative Research Project on High Energy Physics, Nagoya (Japan)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515; FG02-91ER40676; FG03-92ER40701; FG03-91ER40618; FG03-92ER40689; FG03-93ER40788; FG02-91ER40672; FG02-91ER40677; AC03-76SF00098; FG02-92ER40715; AC02-76ER03069; FG06-85ER40224; AC02-76ER00881; FG02-92ER40704; FG05-91ER40627
- OSTI ID:
- 489681
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-7229; CONF-960765-56; ON: DE97007637; CNN: Grant PHY-91-13428; Grant PHY-89-21320; Grant PHY-92-04239; Grant PHY-88-17930; Grant PHY-88-19316; Grant PHY-92-03212; TRN: 97:012560
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 28. international conference on high-energy physics, Warsaw (Poland), 25-31 Jul 1996; Other Information: PBD: Jul 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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