Title: | Measurement of B-0-(B)over-bar(0) flavor oscillations in hadronic B-0 decays |
Authors: | Aubert, B Boutigny, D Gaillard, JM Hicheur, A Karyotakis, Y Lees, JP Robbe, P Tisserand, V Palano, A Pompili, A Chen, GP Giraud, PF Wenzel, WA Monchenault, GH Kozanecki, W Langer, M Azzopardi, DE London, GW Mayer, B Chen, E Taras, P Bettarini, S Breon, AB Serfass, B Vasseur, G Yeche, C Zito, M Purohit, MV Harrison, TJ Back, JJ Singh, H Weidemann, AW Bondioli, M Swain, JE Yumiceva, FX Adam, I de Sangro, R Dubois-Felsmann, GP Aston, D Berger, N Boyarski, AM Calderini, G Bellodi, G Bucci, F Convery, MR Payne, DJ Coupal, DP Hawkes, CM Dong, D Dorfan, J Falciai, D Dunwoodie, W Dvoretskii, A Field, RC Campagna, E Glanzman, T Groysman, Y Kral, JF Gowdy, S Haas, T Himel, T Hryn'ova, T Huffer, ME Knowles, DJ Finocchiaro, G Carpinelli, M Innes, WR Jessop, C Hitlin, DG Nicholson, H Dixon, P Kelsey, MH Kim, P Kocian, ML Langenegger, U Leith, DWGS Dittongo, S Luitz, S Luth, V Patteri, P Lynch, HL Cartaro, C O'Neale, SW Harrison, PF Marsiske, H Rong, G Menke, S Forti, F Messner, R Muller, DR O'Grady, CP Ozcan, VE Perazzo, A Cavallo, N Peruzzi, IM Perl, M Verderi, M Petrak, S Giorgi, MA Quinn, H Penny, RC Metzler, S Ratcliff, BN Robertson, SH Roodman, A De Nardo, G Salnikov, AA Schietinger, T Piccolo, M Roe, NA Lu, A Schindler, RH Schwiening, J Snyder, A Soha, A Spanier, SM Oyang, J Fabozzi, F Watson, AT Stelzer, J Eschrich, I Su, D Sullivan, MK Potter, RJL Xie, Y Tanaka, HA Va'vra, J Wagner, SR Weinstein, AJR Gatto, C Wisniewski, WJ Cremaldi, L Wright, DH Porter, FC Young, CC Watson, NK Shorthouse, HW Burchat, PR Zallo, A Cheng, CH Meyer, TI Heusch, CA Schumm, BA Roat, C Henderson, R Bugg, W Cohn, H Izen, JM Ryd, A Strother, P Kitayama, I Lou, XC Bagnasco, S Lusiani, A Lista, L Deppermann, T Bianchi, F Bona, M Gamba, D Bosisio, L Della Ricca, G Lanceri, L Vidal, PB Poropat, P Marchiori, G Samuel, A Paolucci, P Vuagnin, G Sharma, V Panvini, RS Brown, CM Goetzen, K Jackson, PD Kowalewski, R Roney, JM Martinez-Vidal, F Cowan, G Band, HR Sloane, RJ Charles, E Dasu, S Weaver, M Buzzo, A Eichenbaum, AM Hu, H Johnson, JR Morganti, M Liu, R Koch, H George, S Borgland, AW Di Lodovico, F Pan, Y Prepost, R Scott, IJ Sekula, SJ Brown, DN Neri, N Yang, S von Wimmersperg-Toeller, JH Wu, SL Yu, Z Piccolo, D Green, MG Kordich, TMB Neal, H Kunze, M BABAR Collaboration Paoloni, E Lewandowski, B Peters, K Contri, R Schmuecker, H Zhu, RY Sciacca, C Steinke, M Kurup, A Barlow, NR Bhimji, W Piemontese, L Chevalier, N Clark, PJ Cottingham, WN Foster, B Mackay, C Crosetti, G LeClerc, C Wilson, FF Abe, K Jacobsen, RG Rama, M Devmal, S Hearty, C Mattison, TS McKenna, JA Thiessen, D Jolly, S McKemey, AK LoSecco, JM Blinov, VE Lo Vetere, M Rizzo, G Bukin, AD Anjomshoaa, A Bukin, DA Buzykaev, AR Geld, TL Golubev, VB Ivanchenko, VN Korol, AA Alsmiller, JRG Kravchenko, EA Eschenburg, V Onuchin, AP Serednyakov, SI Macri, M Marker, CE Skovpen, YI Telnov, VI Yushkov, AN Best, D Wang, P Gabriel, TA Long, O Chao, M Kirkby, D Lankford, AJ Mandelkern, M McMahon, S Chen, JC Monge, MR Stoker, DP Arisaka, K Buchanan, C Sandrelli, F Brau, J Chun, S MacFarlane, DB Jayatilleke, S Prell, S Mancinelli, G Meadows, BT McGrath, P Sokoloff, MD Passaggio, S Simi, G Barillari, T Frey, R Bloom, P Dima, MO Ford, WT Nauenberg, U Olivas, A Zhu, YS Rankin, P McMahon, TR Seiden, A Roy, J Smith, JG Lockman, WS Pastore, FC van Hoek, WC Blouw, J Harton, JL Krishnamurthy, M Soffer, A Toki, WH Romosan, A Wilson, RJ Ricciardi, S Eigen, G Touramanis, C Zhang, J Brandt, T Patrignani, C Brose, J Colberg, T Dickopp, M Triggiani, G Dubitzky, RS Hauke, A Maly, E Salvatore, F Grauges, E Muller-Pfefferkorn, R Otto, S Stugu, B Schubert, KR Campagnari, C Walsh, J Schwierz, R Spaan, B Wilden, L Bernard, D Bonneaud, GR Rahatlou, S Vaitsas, G Brochard, F Cohen-Tanugi, J Ferrag, S Haire, M T'Jampens, S Abrams, GS Pia, MG Thiebaux, C Robutti, E Button-Shafer, J Iwasaki, M Santroni, A Brown, D Tosi, S Judd, D Morii, M Bartoldus, R Hamilton, R Mallik, U Cochran, J Dahmes, B Crawley, HB Sinev, NB Fischer, PA Lamsa, J Treadwell, E Davis, CL Cahn, RN Meyer, WT Rosenberg, EI Grosdidier, G Hast, C Hocker, A Lacker, HM Strom, D Hart, PA Kroeger, R Laplace, S Lepeltier, V Allison, J Lutz, AM Plaszczynski, S Clark, AR Schune, MH Trincaz-Duvoid, S Wormser, G Colecchia, F Paick, K Bionta, RM Brigljevic, V Kuznetsova, N Lange, D Bernet, R Mugge, M van Bibber, K Wright, DM Bevan, AJ Gill, MS Vasileiadis, G Levi, ME Fry, JR Gabathuler, E Gamet, R George, M Levy, SL Barlow, RJ Kay, M Kadel, RW Richman, JD Turnbull, L Boyd, JT Dal Corso, F Forti, AC Fullwood, J Jackson, F Lafferty, GD Savvas, N Weatherall, JH Khan, A Williams, JC Wagoner, DE Farbin, A Jawahery, A Dorigo, A Verkerke, W Kadyk, J Lillard, V Olsen, J Roberts, DA Schieck, JR Blaylock, G Albert, J Lavin, D Dallapiccola, C Flood, K Galeazzi, F Hertzbach, SS Kofler, R Beringer, J Koptchev, VB Kerth, LT Moore, TB Elmer, P Staengle, H Willocq, S Muheim, F Brau, B Aspinwall, ML Cowan, R Sciolla, G Taylor, F Yamamoto, RK Eisner, AM Turri, M Milek, M Patel, PM Kolomensky, YG Palombo, F Playfer, S Margoni, M Bauer, JM Pulliam, T Tinslay, J Michelon, G Lu, C Morandin, M Posocco, M Rotondo, M Simonetto, F Stroili, R Lynch, G Bowerman, DA Torassa, E Voci, C Benayoun, M Ronan, MT Falbo, M Schalk, T Briand, H Chauveau, J David, P de Vaissiere, C Del Buono, L Gritsan, AV Hamon, O Le Diberder, F Miftakov, V Oddone, PJ Leruste, P Borean, C Ocariz, J Schmitz, RE Roos, L Stark, J Manfredi, PF Dauncey, PD Re, V Reidy, J Speziali, V Frank, ED Gladney, L Guo, QH Bozzi, C Pripstein, M Panetta, J Qi, ND Angelini, C Egede, U Schaffner, SF Batignani, G Anulli, F Gunawardane, NJW Smith, AJS Tumanov, A Varnes, EW Cavoto, G del Re, D Faccini, R Walkowiak, W Sanders, DA Ferrarotto, F Ferroni, F Shelkov, VG Nash, JA Baldini-Ferroli, R Lamanna, E Mazzoni, MA Morganti, S Piredda, G Tehrani, FS Grothe, M Serra, M Voena, C Williams, DC Christ, S Sanders, P Waldi, R Calcaterra, A Adye, T Telnov, AV De Groot, N Summers, DJ Franek, B Geddes, NI Gopal, GP Xella, SM Aleksan, R Smith, D Wilson, MG Emery, S Raven, G Gaidot, A Nief, JY Ganzhur, SF |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Citation: | Physical Review Letters 88(22): Artn 221802, Jun 2002 |
Abstract: | Flavor oscillations of neutral B mesons have been studied in e+e- annihilation data collected with the BABAR detector at center-of-mass energies near the ϒ(4S) resonance. The data sample used for this purpose consists of events in which one B0 meson is reconstructed in a hadronic decay mode, while the flavor of the recoiling B0 is determined with a tagging algorithm that exploits the correlation between the flavor of the heavy quark and the charges of its decay products. From the time development of the observed mixed and unmixed final states, we determine the B0-B̅ 0 oscillation frequency Δmd to be 0.516±0.016(stat)±0.010(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/e221802 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7560 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.221802 |
ISSN: | 0031-9007 |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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