Title: | Measurement of the B-0 and B+ meson lifetimes with fully reconstructed hadronic final states |
Authors: | Aubert, B Boutigny, D Gaillard, JM Hicheur, A Karyotakis, Y Lees, JP Robbe, P Tisserand, V Palano, A Chen, GP Chen, JC Telnov, AV Eisner, AM Mayer, B Serfass, B Vasseur, G Lafferty, GD Yeche, C Zito, M Cohen-Tanugi, J Lynch, G Rama, M Buchanan, C Copty, N Purohit, MV Singh, H Yumiceva, FX Adam, I Frey, A Savvas, N Wenzel, WA Anthony, PL Pripstein, M Fischer, PA Aston, D Baird, K Lutz, AM Ferrag, S Bloom, E Boyarski, AM Bulos, F Calderini, G Simopoulos, ET Rizzo, G Claus, R Salvatore, F Convery, MR Grillo, AA Coupal, DP Bright-Thomas, PG Plaszczynski, S Coward, DH Roussot, E Dorfan, J Sandrelli, F Doser, M Raven, G Kuznetsova, N Dunwoodie, W Field, RC Glanzman, T Godfrey, GL Gowdy, S Grothe, M Schune, MH Simi, G Grosso, P Himel, T T'Jampens, S Frey, R Weatherall, JH Harrison, TJ Huffer, ME Innes, WR Jessop, C Kelsey, MH Grosdidier, G Kim, P Kocian, ML Trincaz-Duvoid, S Langenegger, U Iwasaki, M Heusch, CA Farbin, A Leith, DWGS Best, D Luitz, S Triggiani, G Luth, V Hawkes, CM Lynch, HL Marsiske, H Menke, S Sinev, NB Valassi, A Messner, R Bartoldus, R Moffeit, KC Walsh, J Mount, R Johnson, RP Thiebaux, C Muller, DR O'Grady, CP Perl, M Strom, D Petrak, S Knowles, DJ Wormser, G Witherell, M Abrams, GS Quinn, H Ratcliff, BN Robertson, SH Rochester, LS Roodman, A Breon, AB Colecchia, F Kroeger, W Schietinger, T Boyd, JT Schindler, RH Schwiening, J Jawahery, A Bionta, RM Serbo, VV Snyder, A O'Neale, SW Soha, A Dal Corso, F Spanier, SM Piccolo, D Stelzer, J Vasileiadis, G Su, D Lockman, WS Lillard, V Sullivan, MK Brigljevic, V Tanaka, HA Va'vra, J Muller-Pfefferkorn, R Borgland, AW Wagner, SR Weinstein, AJR Wisniewski, WJ Penny, RC Wright, DH Verderi, M Kolomensky, YG Young, CC Burchat, PR Groysman, Y Haire, M Dorigo, A Pulliam, T Cheng, CH Kirkby, D Meyer, TI Roat, C Henderson, R Bugg, W Olsen, J Cohn, H Judd, D Anjomshoaa, A Galeazzi, F Watson, AT Krishnamurthy, M Weidemann, AW Izen, JM Sadrozinski, H Kitayama, I Lou, XC Turcotte, M Paick, K Roberts, DA Bianchi, F Scott, I Bona, M Di Girolamo, B Bernet, R Lange, D Gamba, D Smol, A Watson, NK Turnbull, L Zanin, D Zhu, YS Schieck, JR Arisaka, K Lanceri, L Pompili, A Vuagnin, G Panvini, RS Brown, CM Qi, ND Wagoner, DE Khan, A De Silva, A Kowalewski, R Roney, JM Margoni, M Blaylock, G Band, HR Deppermann, T Schalk, T Charles, E Roe, NA Dasu, S Di Lodovico, F Mugge, M Eichenbaum, AM Muheim, F Michelon, G Hu, H Dallapiccola, C Johnson, JR Liu, R Hast, C Nielsen, J Pan, Y Prepost, R Schmitz, RE Goetzen, K Shi, X Levy, SL Scott, IJ Sekula, SJ Sharma, V Albert, J Playfer, S von Wimmersperg-Toeller, JH Wu, SL Yu, Z Zobernig, H Kordich, TMB Neal, H Meyer, AB BABAR Collaboration van Bibber, K Bula, C Schumm, BA Dignan, T Koch, H Krug, J Swain, JE Kunze, M Lewandowski, B Peters, K Morandin, M Schmuecker, H Sciacca, C Steinke, M Andress, JC Wenaus, TJ Flood, K Barlow, NR Bhimji, W Seiden, A Chevalier, N Lankford, AJ Posocco, M Brose, J Clark, PJ Cottingham, WN De Groot, N Dyce, N Foster, B Telnov, VI Wright, DM McFall, JD Wallom, D Wilson, FF Elmer, P Rotondo, M Abe, K Turri, M Falbo, M Hearty, C Mattison, TS McKenna, JA Hertzbach, SS Thiessen, D Wuest, CR Lu, C Jolly, S Simonetto, F McKemey, AK Tinslay, J Blinov, VE Bukin, AD Bukin, DA Borean, C Walkowiak, W Kofler, R Wilden, L Buzykaev, AR Golubev, VB Otto, S Carroll, M Ivanchenko, VN Korol, AA Kravchenko, EA Onuchin, AP Salnikov, AA Serednyakov, SI Yellin, S Skovpen, YI Moore, TB Brown, DN Vaitsas, G Williams, DC Wilson, MG Fry, JR Chen, E Dubois-Felsmann, GP Eigen, G McDonald, KT Dvoretskii, A Hitlin, DG Metzler, S Staengle, H Stroili, R Oyang, J Porter, FC Bozzi, C Ryd, A Soffer, A Miftakov, V Samuel, A Weaver, M Yang, S Zhu, RY Reinertsen, PL Blouw, J Kral, JF Devmal, S Geld, TL Jayatilleke, S Schaffner, SF Mancinelli, G Dittongo, S Gabathuler, E Meadows, BT Sokoloff, MD Barillari, T Torassa, E Bloom, P Willocq, S Dima, MO Smith, AJS Fahey, S Stugu, B Ford, WT Johnson, DR Nauenberg, U Jacobsen, RG Folegani, M Voci, C Olivas, A Park, H Hocker, A Brau, B Rankin, P Roy, J Sen, S Smith, JG van Hoek, WC Abbott, B Wagner, DL Benayoun, M Chun, S LoSecco, JM Piemontese, L Treadwell, E Cowan, R Anulli, F Baldini-Ferroli, R Mandelkern, M Calcaterra, A de Sangro, R Falciai, D Briand, H Tumanov, A Button-Shafer, J Finocchiaro, G Gamet, R Patteri, P Hamilton, R Peruzzi, IM Piccolo, M Xie, Y Zallo, A McMahon, S Morii, M Long, O Bagnasco, S Buzzo, A Contri, R Crosetti, G George, M Sciolla, G Cahn, RN Fabbricatore, P Farinon, S Varnes, EW Lo Vetere, M Chauveau, J Macri, M Monge, MR Stoker, DP Musenich, R Pallavicini, M Parodi, R Campagnari, C Kay, M Romosan, A Passaggio, S Pastore, FC Momayezi, M Clark, AR Patrignani, C Pia, MG Priano, C Robutti, E Ahsan, A Santroni, A Cavoto, G Colberg, T Payne, DJ Sloane, RJ David, P Touramanis, C Aspinwall, ML Toki, WH Bowerman, DA Dauncey, PD Egede, U del Re, D Branson, JG Kadel, RW Taylor, F Eschrich, I Brown, D Gunawardane, NJW Nash, JA Sanders, P Smith, D Wilson, RJ Behr, L Azzopardi, DE Back, JJ Dixon, P Harrison, PF Yamamoto, RK De la Vaissiere, C MacFarlane, DB Potter, RJL Kadyk, J Shorthouse, HW Faccini, R Strother, P Vidal, PB Zhang, J Williams, MI Cowan, G George, S Schubert, KR Milek, M Green, MG Kurup, A Beringer, J Prell, S Marker, CE McGrath, P Kerth, LT McMahon, TR Brandt, T Ricciardi, S Lamsa, J Patel, PM Trischuk, J Ferrarotto, F Lanni, F LeClerc, C Mallik, U Palombo, F Bauer, JM Booke, M Dahlinger, G Dahmes, B Del Buono, L Cremaldi, L Alsmiller, JRG Eschenburg, V Kroeger, R Reidy, J Sanders, DA Gill, MS Summers, DJ Martin, JP Levi, ME Nief, JY Hamon, O Ferroni, F Dickopp, M Seitz, R Hart, PA Taras, P Zacek, V Nicholson, H Cochran, J Sutton, CS Cartaro, C Cavallo, N Gritsan, AV Le Diberder, F De Nardo, G Fabozzi, F Dubitzky, RS Liu, T Gatto, C Rong, G Lista, L Crawley, HB Paolucci, P Kluth, S Leruste, P Lory, J Roos, L Lu, A Davis, CL Stark, J Versille, S Oddone, PJ Meyer, WT Schwierz, R Fratini, K Manfredi, PF Re, V Speziali, V Frank, ED Gladney, L Rahatlou, S Guo, QH Panetta, JH Richman, JD Angelini, C Lamanna, E Rosenberg, EI Batignani, G Spaan, B Bettarini, S Perazzo, A Bondioli, M Allison, J Carpinelli, M Forti, F Giorgi, MA Leonardi, E Lusiani, A Martinez-Vidal, F Benkebil, M Verkerke, W Morganti, M Yushkov, AN Neri, N Barlow, RJ Paoloni, E Mazzoni, MA Morganti, S Ronan, MT Bernard, D Gabriel, TA Piredda, G Tehrani, FS Dorfan, DE Forti, AC Lacker, HM Serra, M Voena, C Christ, S Waldi, R Adye, T Maly, E Franek, B Geddes, NI Bonneaud, GR Gopal, GP Fullwood, J Shelkov, VG LePeltier, V Xella, SM Wang, P Aleksan, R Handler, T De Domenico, G Emery, S Gaidot, A Ganzhur, SF de Monchenault, GH Jackson, F Brochard, F Kozanecki, W Harton, JL Langer, M Brau, J London, GW |
Issue Date: | 2001 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Citation: | Physical Review Letters, 87(20): Artn 201803, Nov 2001 |
Abstract: | The B0 and B+ meson lifetimes have been measured in e+e- annihilation data collected in 1999 and 2000 with the BABAR detector at center-of-mass energies near the ϒ(4S) resonance. Events are selected in which one B meson is fully reconstructed in a hadronic final state while the second B meson is reconstructed inclusively. A combined fit to the B0 and the B+ decay time difference distributions yields τB0 = 1.546±0.032(stat)±0.022(syst) ps, τB+ = 1.673±0.032(stat)±0.023(syst) ps, and τB+/τB0 = 1.082±0.026(stat)±0.012(syst). |
Description: | This is the pre-print version of the Article. The official published version can be accessed from the links below. Copyright @ 2001 APS |
URI: | http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v87/i20/e201803 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7537 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.201803 |
ISSN: | 0031-9007 |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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