Title: | Measurement of the B-0-(B)over-bar(0) oscillation frequency with inclusive dilepton events |
Authors: | Aubert, B Boutigny, D Gaillard, JM Hicheur, A Karyotakis, Y Lees, JP Robbe, P Tisserand, V Palano, A Pompili, A Chen, GP Ganzhur, SF Wenzel, WA Giraud, PF Monchenault, GH Kozanecki, W Smith, D Langer, M London, GW Wilson, MG Nief, JY Batignani, G Breon, AB Mayer, B Serfass, B Vasseur, G Yeche, C Zito, M Bright-Thomas, PG Azzopardi, DE Purohit, MV Singh, H Bettarini, S Playfer, S Weidemann, AW Yumiceva, FX Calcaterra, A Chen, E Adam, I Aston, D Berger, N Boyarski, AM Back, JJ Bondioli, M Calderini, G Kay, M Convery, MR Harrison, TJ Coupal, DP Dong, D de Sangro, R Dorfan, J Dubois-Felsmann, GP Dunwoodie, W Bucci, F Field, RC Groysman, Y Kral, JF Glanzman, T Gowdy, S Haas, T Himel, T Hryn'ova, T Hawkes, CM Falciai, D Campagna, E Huffer, ME Innes, WR Dvoretskii, A Taras, P Bellodi, G Jessop, C Kelsey, MH Kim, P Kocian, ML Langenegger, U Bozzi, C Leith, DWGS Luitz, S Finocchiaro, G Luth, V Nicholson, H Knowles, DJ Dixon, P Lynch, HL Rong, G Marsiske, H Carpinelli, M Menke, S Messner, R Muller, DR O'Grady, CP Ozcan, VE Cartaro, C Patteri, P Perazzo, A Vasileiadis, G Perl, M Forti, F Petrak, S O'Neale, SW Hitlin, DG Quinn, H Ratcliff, BN Robertson, SH Cavallo, N Roodman, A Salnikov, AA Peruzzi, IM Roe, NA Long, O Schietinger, T Schindler, RH Schwiening, J Snyder, A Soha, A Metzler, S De Nardo, G Penny, RC Spanier, SM Egede, U Stelzer, J Su, D Harrison, PF Piccolo, M Sullivan, MK Tanaka, HA Va'vra, J Wagner, SR Fabozzi, F Weinstein, AJR Bauer, JM Wisniewski, WJ Oyang, J Wright, DH Watson, AT Potter, RJL Young, CC Xie, Y Burchat, PR Cheng, CH Grothe, M Schmitz, RE Meyer, TI Roat, C Henderson, R Bugg, W Cohn, H Porter, FC Shorthouse, HW Izen, JM Kitayama, I Zallo, A Giorgi, MA Gatto, C Watson, NK Lou, XC Bianchi, F Bona, M Gamba, D Bosisio, L Della Ricca, G Strother, P Lanceri, L Lusiani, A Ryd, A Lista, L Poropat, P Raven, G Vuagnin, G Panvini, RS Deppermann, T Brown, CM Jackson, PD Kowalewski, R Marchiori, G Vidal, PB Roney, JM Payne, DJ Band, HR Charles, E Samuel, A Bagnasco, S Dasu, S Eichenbaum, AM Hu, H Martinez-Vidal, F Johnson, JR Goetzen, K Cowan, G Borgland, AW Liu, R Di Lodovico, F Pan, Y Prepost, R Scott, IJ Brown, DN Morganti, M Weaver, M Sekula, SJ von Wimmersperg-Toeller, JH Wu, SL Paolucci, P George, S Yu, Z Kordich, TMB Koch, H Neal, H Neri, N BABAR Collaboration Kunze, M Buzzo, A Lewandowski, B Yang, S Piccolo, D Peters, K Green, MG Schmuecker, H Steinke, M Dittongo, S Barlow, NR Bhimji, W Chevalier, N Clark, PJ Cottingham, WN Contri, R LeClerc, C Foster, B Mackay, C Jacobsen, RG Paoloni, E Zhu, RY Wilson, FF Abe, K Hearty, C Mattison, TS McKenna, JA Thiessen, D Sciacca, C Jolly, S Crosetti, G Rama, M McKemey, AK Verderi, M Blinov, VE Bukin, AD Devmal, S Bukin, DA Buzykaev, AR Golubev, VB LoSecco, JM Ivanchenko, VN Cremaldi, L Korol, AA Kravchenko, EA Lo Vetere, M Kurup, A Onuchin, AP Serednyakov, SI Skovpen, YI Telnov, VI Wang, P Alsmiller, JRG Levy, SL Yushkov, AN Best, D Chao, M Kirkby, D Lankford, AJ Chen, JC Macri, M Mandelkern, M McMahon, S Stoker, DP Rizzo, G Gabriel, TA Arisaka, K Buchanan, C Geld, TL Chun, S MacFarlane, DB Jayatilleke, S Marker, CE Mancinelli, G Monge, MR Sandrelli, F Meadows, BT Brau, J Sokoloff, MD Barillari, T Bloom, P Dima, MO Ford, WT Nauenberg, U Zhu, YS McGrath, P Schumm, BA Olivas, A Rankin, P Heusch, CA Passaggio, S Roy, J Smith, JG van Hoek, WC Blouw, J Harton, JL Krishnamurthy, M Romosan, A Soffer, A McMahon, TR Toki, WH Sloane, RJ Eigen, G Wilson, RJ Pastore, FC Zhang, J Brandt, T Brose, J Simi, G Colberg, T Dickopp, M Dubitzky, RS Ricciardi, S Frey, R Hauke, A Maly, E Muller-Pfefferkorn, R Stugu, B Sharma, V Triggiani, G Otto, S Schubert, KR Schwierz, R Spaan, B Wilden, L Prell, S Salvatore, F Bernard, D Bonneaud, GR Brochard, F Walsh, J Cohen-Tanugi, J Ferrag, S Patrignani, C Abrams, GS T'Jampens, S Pia, MG Grauges, E Button-Shafer, J Vaitsas, G Robutti, E Haire, M Santroni, A Tosi, S Morii, M Bartoldus, R Hamilton, R Mallik, U Campagnari, C Iwasaki, M Cochran, J Crawley, HB Piemontese, L Brown, D Fischer, PA Cahn, RN Lamsa, J Meyer, WT Rosenberg, EI Grosdidier, G Hast, C Sinev, NB Hocker, A Eschenburg, V Dahmes, B Lacker, HM Davis, CL Laplace, S Lepeltier, V Lutz, AM Clark, AR Plaszczynski, S Schune, MH Strom, D Judd, D Trincaz-Duvoid, S Wormser, G Bionta, RM Hart, PA Anjomshoaa, A Brigljevic, V Lange, D Mugge, M van Bibber, K Wright, DM Thiebaux, C Levi, ME Gill, MS Bevan, AJ Fry, JR Gabathuler, E Gamet, R Allison, J Kuznetsova, N George, M Kadel, RW Paick, K Lu, A Colecchia, F Barlow, RJ Boyd, JT Forti, AC Fullwood, J Jackson, F Lafferty, GD Savvas, N Bernet, R Turnbull, L Weatherall, JH Williams, JC Dal Corso, F Farbin, A Richman, JD Kadyk, J Jawahery, A Lillard, V Olsen, J Roberts, DA Wagoner, DE Schieck, JR Khan, A Blaylock, G Dorigo, A Dallapiccola, C Flood, K Hertzbach, SS Verkerke, W Kofler, R Kerth, LT Albert, J Koptchev, VB Moore, TB Staengle, H Lavin, D Touramanis, C Willocq, S Brau, B Cowan, R Sciolla, G Taylor, F Seiden, A Beringer, J Yamamoto, RK Milek, M Kolomensky, YG Patel, PM Galeazzi, F Muheim, F Palombo, F Lockman, WS Swain, JE Elmer, P Margoni, M Michelon, G Morandin, M Posocco, M Rotondo, M Simonetto, F Lynch, G Aspinwall, ML Stroili, R Torassa, E Ronan, MT Voci, C Tinslay, J Pulliam, T Benayoun, M Briand, H Chauveau, J David, P de Vaissiere, C Gritsan, AV Del Buono, L Lu, C Hamon, O Oddone, PJ Le Diberder, F Falbo, M Leruste, P Schalk, T Ocariz, J Roos, L Stark, J Bowerman, DA Kroeger, R Manfredi, PF Re, V Speziali, V Frank, ED Gladney, L Borean, C Pripstein, M Guo, QH Qi, ND Panetta, J Miftakov, V Dauncey, PD Angelini, C Treadwell, E Eschrich, I Schaffner, SF Smith, AJS Tumanov, A Varnes, EW Cavoto, G del Re, D Turri, M Reidy, J Faccini, R Ferrarotto, F Shelkov, VG Gunawardane, NJW Anulli, F Ferroni, F Lamanna, E Mazzoni, MA Morganti, S Piredda, G Eisner, AM Tehrani, FS Serra, M Walkowiak, W Voena, C Nash, JA Christ, S Baldini-Ferroli, R Waldi, R Telnov, AV Adye, T Sanders, DA De Groot, N Franek, B Geddes, NI Gopal, GP Xella, SM Sanders, P Williams, DC Aleksan, R Rahatlou, S Emery, S Summers, DJ Gaidot, A |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Citation: | Physical Review Letters 88(22): Artn 221803, Jun 2002 |
Abstract: | The B0-B̅ 0 oscillation frequency has been measured with a sample of 23×106 BB̅ pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B Factory at SLAC. In this sample, we select events in which both B mesons decay semileptonically and use the charge of the leptons to identify the flavor of each B meson. A simultaneous fit to the decay time difference distributions for opposite- and same-sign dilepton events gives Δmd = 0.493±0.012(stat)±0.009(syst)ps-1. |
Description: | This is the pre-print version of the Article. The official published version can be accessed from the links below. Copyright @ 2002 APS |
URI: | http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v88/i22/e221803 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7561 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.221803 |
ISSN: | 0031-9007 |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic and Computer Engineering Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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