Phys. Rev. D 59, 032001 (1998) [41 pages]

Measurement of the Bd0-Bd0 flavor oscillation frequency and study of same side flavor tagging of B mesons in pp̅ collisions

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F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)
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Received 24 June 1998; published 24 December 1998

Bd0-Bd0 oscillations are observed in “self-tagged” samples of partially reconstructed B mesons decaying into a lepton and a charmed meson collected in pp̅ collisions at sqrt[s]=1.8 TeV. A flavor tagging technique is employed which relies upon the correlation between the flavor of B mesons and the charge of a nearby particle. We measure the flavor oscillation frequency to be Δmd=0.471-0.068+0.078±0.034 ps-1. The tagging method is also demonstrated in exclusive samples of Bu+JK+ and Bd0JK*0(892), where similar flavor-charge correlations are observed. The tagging characteristics of the various samples are compared with each other, and with Monte Carlo simulations.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.59.032001
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.032001
PACS: 14.40.Nd, 13.20.He, 13.25.Hw

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