Preliminary measurements of the time dependence of B{sub d}{sup 0} - {bar B}{sub d}{sup 0} mixing with kaon and charge dipole tags
We report two preliminary measurements of the time dependence of B{sub d}{sup 0}- B{sub d}{sup 0} mixing using novel techniques with a sample of 150,000 hadronic Z{sup O} decays collected by the SLD experiment at the SLC. B decay vertices are reconstructed inclusively with a topological technique and the B hadron flavor at production is determined by exploiting the large left-right forward-backward asymmetry of Z{sup O} {r_arrow} b {bar b} decays in combination with a jet charge technique. Two methods are used to tag the B flavor at decay. The first uses the charge of kaons attached to the B decay vertex and identified with the Cherenkov Ring Imaging Detector. The second measurement is based on the construction of a charge dipole of the topological vertices to separate the B{sub d}{sup O}/B{sub d}{sup 0} decays by exploiting the B {r_arrow} D cascade charge structure. The measurement of the oscillation frequency yields {Delta}m{sub d} = 0.58 {+-} 0.07(stat){+-}0.08(syst) ps{sup -1} and 0.56 {+-} 0.08(stat){+-}0.04(syst) ps{sup {minus}1} for the kaon and dipole tags respectively.
- 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:
- 491440
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-7230; CONF-960765-60; ON: DE97007627; 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: 97:012550
- 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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