Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2057 - 2062 (1998)

Measurement of the B0-B̅ 0 Oscillation Frequency Using π-B Meson Charge-Flavor Correlations in pp̅ Collisions at sqrt[s]  =  1.8 TeV

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F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)
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Received 16 September 1997; revised 4 December 1997

We present a measurement of the B0B̅ 0 oscillation frequency using a flavor tagging method based on correlations of B meson flavor with the charge of other particles produced in pp̅ collisions at sqrt[s]  =  1.8  TeV. Such correlations are expected to arise from b quark hadronization and from B** decays. We partially reconstruct B mesons using the semileptonic decays B0l+D(*)-X and B+l+D̅ 0X. From the oscillation frequency, we obtain the mass difference between the two B0 mass eigenstates, Δmd  =  0.471-0.068+0.078(stat)±0.034(syst)ħ  ps-1, and measure the efficiency and purity of this flavor tagging method for both charged and neutral B mesons.


©1998 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2057
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2057
PACS: 13.20.He, 14.40.Nd

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