Quark flavor identification in electron-positron annihilation
The theoretical issues relevant to inclusive muon analysis, the MAC detector and its data flow structure, the identification of muons in hadronic events and the measurement of their momenta, and the selection of events so as to minimize background are described. Experimental results are presented describing the fragmentation of heavy quarks into hadrons, the semimuonic branching fractions of the heavy quarks, the asymmetry in the angular distribution of the heavy quarks, and the invariant mass and charged multiplicity of heavy quark jets. In addition, lower limits are set on the masses of certain proposed particles that are expected to decay semileptonically. Finally, events containing two muons are analyzed in order to investigate the possibility of mixing in the B-B system and whether the b might form its own SU(2) singlet.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 5636323
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-262; ON: DE84002349
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Thesis
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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