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Measurement of semileptonic branching fractions of B mesons to narrow D** states

Physical Review Letters 95:17 (2005)

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, JL Agram, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, Y Arnoud, A Askew, B Åsman, ACS Assis Jesus, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, PW Balm, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, S Beauceron, M Begalli, M Begel, A Bellavance, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Binder, C Biscarat, KM Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, O Boeriu, TA Bolton, F Borcherding, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, E Busato, CP Buszello, JM Butler, J Cammin, S Caron, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, D Chapin, F Charles, E Cheu, DK Cho, S Choi

Abstract:

Using the data accumulated in 2002-2004 with the D0 detector in proton-antiproton collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron collider with a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV, the branching fractions of the decays Bñ†'DÂ10(2420)Î+ÎÎX and Bñ†'DÂ2*0(2460)Î+ÎÎX and their ratio have been measured: B(b喠'B)Ã- B(Bñ†'DÂ10Î+ÎÎX)Ã- B(DÂ10ñ†'D*-Ï€+)=[0.087±0. 007(stat)±0.014(syst)]%; B(b喠'B)Ã- B(Bñ†'DÂ2*0Î+ÎÎX)Ã- B(DÂ2*0ñ†'D*-Ï€+)=[0. 035±0.007(stat)±0.008(syst)]% and [B(Bñ†'DÂ2*0Î+ÎÎX) Ã-B(DÂ2*0ñ†'D*-Ï€+)]/ [B(Bñ†'DÂ10Î+ÎÎX)Ã- B(DÂ10ñ†'D*-Ï€+)]=0.39±0. 09(stat)±0.12(syst), where the charge conjugated states are always implied. © 2005 The American Physical Society.

Measurement of semileptonic branching fractions of B mesons to narrow D** states.

Phys Rev Lett 95:17 (2005) 171803

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, J-L Agram, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, Y Arnoud, A Askew, B Asman, ACS Assis Jesus, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, PW Balm, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, S Beauceron, M Begalli, M Begel, A Bellavance, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Binder, C Biscarat, KM Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, O Boeriu, TA Bolton, F Borcherding, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, E Busato, CP Buszello, JM Butler, J Cammin, S Caron, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, D Chapin, F Charles, E Cheu, DK Cho, S Choi, B Choudhary, T Christiansen, L Christofek, D Claes, B ClĂ©ment, C ClĂ©ment, Y Coadou, M Cooke, WE Cooper, D Coppage, M Corcoran, A Cothenet, M-C Cousinou, B Cox, S CrĂ©pĂ©-Renaudin, D Cutts, H da Motta, M Das, B Davies, G Davies, GA Davis, K De, P de Jong, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveira Martins, S Dean, JD Degenhardt, F DĂ©liot, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, M Doidge, H Dong, S Doulas, LV Dudko, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, T Edwards, J Ellison, J Elmsheuser, VD Elvira, S Eno, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, J Estrada, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, J Fast, SN Fatakia, L Feligioni, AV Ferapontov, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, I Fleck, M Fortner, H Fox, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, CF Galea, E Gallas, E Galyaev, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, J Gardner, V Gavrilov, A Gay, P Gay, D GelĂ©, R Gelhaus, K Genser, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, D Gillberg, G Ginther, T Golling, N Gollub, B GĂłmez, K Gounder, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, S Greder, H Greenlee, ZD Greenwood, EM Gregores, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, L Groer, S GrĂŒnendahl, MW GrĂŒnewald, SN Gurzhiev, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, NJ Hadley, S Hagopian, I Hall, RE Hall, C Han, L Han, K Hanagaki, K Harder, A Harel, R Harrington, JM Hauptman, R Hauser, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, JM Heinmiller, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, G Hesketh, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, M Hohlfeld, SJ Hong, R Hooper, P Houben, Y Hu, J Huang, V Hynek, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, AS Ito, S Jabeen, M JaffrĂ©, S Jain, V Jain, K Jakobs, A Jenkins, R Jesik, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, A Juste, D KĂ€fer, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, J Kalk, D Karmanov, J Kasper, D Kau, R Kaur, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, S Kesisoglou, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YM Kharzheev, H Kim, TJ Kim, B Klima, JM Kohli, J-P Konrath, M Kopal, VM Korablev, J Kotcher, B Kothari, A Koubarovsky, AV Kozelov, J Kozminski, A Kryemadhi, S Krzywdzinski, Y Kulik, A Kumar, S Kunori, A Kupco, T Kurca, J Kvita, S Lager, N Lahrichi, G Landsberg, J Lazoflores, A-C Le Bihan, P Lebrun, WM Lee, A Leflat, F Lehner, C Leonidopoulos, J Leveque, P Lewis, J Li, QZ Li, JGR Lima, D Lincoln, SL Linn, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, R Lipton, L Lobo, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, A Lounis, P Love, HJ Lubatti, L Lueking, M Lynker, AL Lyon, AKA Maciel, RJ Madaras, P MĂ€ttig, C Magass, A Magerkurth, A-M Magnan, N Makovec, PK Mal, HB Malbouisson, S Malik, VL Malyshev, HS Mao, Y Maravin, M Martens, SEK Mattingly, AA Mayorov, R McCarthy, R McCroskey, D Meder, A Melnitchouk, A Mendes, M Merkin, KW Merritt, A Meyer, J Meyer, M Michaut, H Miettinen, J Mitrevski, J Molina, NK Mondal, RW Moore, T Moulik, GS Muanza, M Mulders, L Mundim, YD Mutaf, E Nagy, M Narain, NA Naumann, HA Neal, JP Negret, S Nelson, P Neustroev, C Noeding, A Nomerotski, SF Novaes, T Nunnemann, E Nurse, V O'Dell, DC O'Neil, V Oguri, N Oliveira, N Oshima, GJ Otero y GarzĂłn, P Padley, N Parashar, SK Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, G Pawloski, PM Perea, E Perez, P PĂ©troff, M Petteni, R Piegaia, M-A Pleier, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, M-E Pol, A Pompos, BG Pope, WL Prado da Silva, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, KJ Rani, K Ranjan, PA Rapidis, PN Ratoff, S Reucroft, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, S Robinson, RF Rodrigues, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, VI Rud, G Sajot, A SĂĄnchez-HernĂĄndez, MP Sanders, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, D Schaile, RD Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, P Schieferdecker, C Schmitt, C Schwanenberger, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, S Sengupta, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, AA Shchukin, WD Shephard, RK Shivpuri, D Shpakov, RA Sidwell, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, RP Smith, K Smolek, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, X Song, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, M Souza, B Spurlock, NR Stanton, J Stark, J Steele, K Stevenson, V Stolin, A Stone, DA Stoyanova, J Strandberg, MA Strang, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, D Strom, M Strovink, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, A Sznajder, M Talby, P Tamburello, W Taylor, P Telford, J Temple, M Titov, M Tomoto, T Toole, J Torborg, S Towers, T Trefzger, S Trincaz-Duvoid, D Tsybychev, B Tuchming, C Tully, AS Turcot, PM Tuts, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, PJ van den Berg, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, EW Varnes, A Vartapetian, IA Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, F Villeneuve-Seguier, J-R Vlimant, E Von Toerne, M Vreeswijk, T Vu Anh, HD Wahl, L Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, M Weber, H Weerts, N Wermes, M Wetstein, A White, V White, D Wicke, DA Wijngaarden, GW Wilson, SJ Wimpenny, J Wittlin, M Wobisch, J Womersley, DR Wood, TR Wyatt, Q Xu, N Xuan, S Yacoob, R Yamada, M Yan, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, Y Yen, K Yip, HD Yoo, SW Youn, J Yu, A Yurkewicz, A Zabi, A Zatserklyaniy, M Zdrazil, C Zeitnitz, D Zhang, X Zhang, T Zhao, Z Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, R Zitoun, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, D0 Collaboration

Abstract:

Using the data accumulated in 2002-2004 with the D0 detector in proton-antiproton collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron collider with a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV, the branching fractions of the decays B --> D0(1)(2420)mu+ vmuX and B --> D2(*0)(2460)mu+ vmuX and their ratio have been measured: B(b --> B) x B(B --> D0(1)mu+ vmuX) x B(D0(*0) --> D*- pi+) = [0.087 +/- 0.007(stat) +/- 0.014(syst)]%; B(b --> B) x B(B --> D2(*0) mu+ vmuX) x B(D2(*0) --> D*- pi+) = [0.035 +/- 0.007(stat) +/- 0.008(syst)]% and [B(B --> D2(*0)mu+ vmuX) x B(D2(*0) --> D*- pi+)]/[B(B --> D0(1)mu+ vmuX) x B(D0(1) --> D*- pi+)] = 0.39 +/- 0.09(stat) +/- 0.12 (syst), where the charge conjugated states are always implied.

Measurement of the lifetime difference in the Bs0 system

Physical Review Letters 95:17 (2005)

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, JL Agram, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, Y Arnoud, M Arov, A Askew, B Åsman, ACS Assis Jesus, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, PW Balm, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, S Beauceron, M Begalli, M Begel, A Bellavance, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Binder, C Biscarat, KM Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, O Boeriu, TA Bolton, F Borcherding, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, E Busato, CP Buszello, JM Butler, J Cammin, S Caron, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, D Chapin, F Charles, E Cheu, DK Cho

Abstract:

We present a study of the decay Bs0ñ†'J/ÏÏ‱. We obtain the CP-odd fraction in the final state at time zero, Rùƥ„=0.16±0.10(stat)±0.02(syst), the average lifetime of the (Bs0, BÂs0) system, Ï.,Â(Bs0)=1.39- 0.16+0.13(stat)-0.02+0.01(syst)ps, and the relative width difference between the heavy and light mass eigenstates, Î"Î"/ Î"Âñ‰¡(Î"L-Î"H)/ Î"Â=0.24-0.38+0.28(stat)-0.04+0.03(syst). With the additional constraint from the world average of the Bs0 lifetime measurements using semileptonic decays, we find Ï.,Â(Bs0)=1.39±0.06ps and Î"Î"/Î"Â=0.25-0.15+0.14. For the ratio of the Bs0 and B0 lifetimes we obtain Ï.,Â(Bs0)Ï.,(B0)=0. 91±0.09(stat)±0.003(syst). © 2005 The American Physical Society.

Measurement of the lifetime difference in the B0(s) system.

Phys Rev Lett 95:17 (2005) 171801

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, J-L Agram, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, Y Arnoud, M Arov, A Askew, B Asman, ACS Assis Jesus, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, PW Balm, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, S Beauceron, M Begalli, M Begel, A Bellavance, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Binder, C Biscarat, KM Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, O Boeriu, TA Bolton, F Borcherding, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, E Busato, CP Buszello, JM Butler, J Cammin, S Caron, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, D Chapin, F Charles, E Cheu, DK Cho, S Choi, B Choudhary, T Christiansen, L Christofek, D Claes, B ClĂ©ment, C ClĂ©ment, Y Coadou, M Cooke, WE Cooper, D Coppage, M Corcoran, A Cothenet, M-C Cousinou, B Cox, S CrĂ©pĂ©-Renaudin, D Cutts, H da Motta, M Das, B Davies, G Davies, GA Davis, K De, P de Jong, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveira Martins, S Dean, JD Degenhardt, F DĂ©liot, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, M Doidge, H Dong, S Doulas, LV Dudko, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, T Edwards, J Ellison, J Elmsheuser, VD Elvira, S Eno, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, J Estrada, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, J Fast, SN Fatakia, L Feligioni, AV Ferapontov, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, I Fleck, M Fortner, H Fox, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, CF Galea, E Gallas, E Galyaev, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, J Gardner, V Gavrilov, A Gay, P Gay, D GelĂ©, R Gelhaus, K Genser, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, D Gillberg, G Ginther, T Golling, N Gollub, B GĂłmez, K Gounder, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, S Greder, H Greenlee, ZD Greenwood, EM Gregores, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, L Groer, S GrĂŒnendahl, MW GrĂŒnewald, SN Gurzhiev, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, NJ Hadley, S Hagopian, I Hall, RE Hall, C Han, L Han, K Hanagaki, K Harder, A Harel, R Harrington, JM Hauptman, R Hauser, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, JM Heinmiller, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, G Hesketh, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, M Hohlfeld, SJ Hong, R Hooper, P Houben, Y Hu, J Huang, V Hynek, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, AS Ito, S Jabeen, M JaffrĂ©, S Jain, V Jain, K Jakobs, A Jenkins, R Jesik, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, A Juste, D KĂ€fer, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, J Kalk, D Karmanov, J Kasper, I Katsanos, D Kau, R Kaur, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, S Kesisoglou, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YM Kharzheev, H Kim, TJ Kim, B Klima, JM Kohli, J-P Konrath, M Kopal, VM Korablev, J Kotcher, B Kothari, A Koubarovsky, AV Kozelov, J Kozminski, A Kryemadhi, S Krzywdzinski, Y Kulik, A Kumar, S Kunori, A Kupco, T Kurca, J Kvita, S Lager, N Lahrichi, G Landsberg, J Lazoflores, A-C Le Bihan, P Lebrun, WM Lee, A Leflat, F Lehner, C Leonidopoulos, J Leveque, P Lewis, J Li, QZ Li, JGR Lima, D Lincoln, SL Linn, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, R Lipton, L Lobo, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, A Lounis, P Love, HJ Lubatti, L Lueking, L Luo, M Lynker, AL Lyon, AKA Maciel, RJ Madaras, P MĂ€ttig, C Magass, A Magerkurth, A-M Magnan, N Makovec, PK Mal, HB Malbouisson, S Malik, VL Malyshev, HS Mao, Y Maravin, M Martens, SEK Mattingly, AA Mayorov, R McCarthy, R McCroskey, D Meder, A Melnitchouk, A Mendes, D Mendoza, M Merkin, KW Merritt, A Meyer, J Meyer, M Michaut, H Miettinen, J Mitrevski, J Molina, NK Mondal, RW Moore, T Moulik, GS Muanza, M Mulders, L Mundim, YD Mutaf, E Nagy, M Naimuddin, M Narain, NA Naumann, HA Neal, JP Negret, S Nelson, P Neustroev, C Noeding, A Nomerotski, SF Novaes, T Nunnemann, E Nurse, V O'Dell, DC O'Neil, V Oguri, N Oliveira, N Oshima, GJ Otero y GarzĂłn, P Padley, N Parashar, SK Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, G Pawloski, PM Perea, E Perez, P PĂ©troff, M Petteni, R Piegaia, M-A Pleier, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, M-E Pol, A Pompos, BG Pope, WL Prado da Silva, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, KJ Rani, K Ranjan, PA Rapidis, PN Ratoff, S Reucroft, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, S Robinson, RF Rodrigues, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, VI Rud, G Sajot, A SĂĄnchez-HernĂĄndez, MP Sanders, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, D Schaile, RD Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, P Schieferdecker, C Schmitt, C Schwanenberger, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, S Sengupta, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, AA Shchukin, WD Shephard, RK Shivpuri, D Shpakov, RA Sidwell, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, RP Smith, K Smolek, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, X Song, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, M Souza, B Spurlock, NR Stanton, J Stark, J Steele, K Stevenson, V Stolin, A Stone, DA Stoyanova, J Strandberg, MA Strang, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, D Strom, M Strovink, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, A Sznajder, M Talby, P Tamburello, W Taylor, P Telford, J Temple, M Titov, M Tomoto, T Toole, J Torborg, S Towers, T Trefzger, S Trincaz-Duvoid, D Tsybychev, B Tuchming, C Tully, AS Turcot, PM Tuts, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, PJ van den Berg, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, EW Varnes, A Vartapetian, IA Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, F Villeneuve-Seguier, J-R Vlimant, E Von Toerne, M Vreeswijk, T Vu Anh, HD Wahl, L Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, M Weber, H Weerts, N Wermes, M Wetstein, A White, V White, D Wicke, DA Wijngaarden, GW Wilson, SJ Wimpenny, J Wittlin, M Wobisch, J Womersley, DR Wood, TR Wyatt, Y Xie, Q Xu, N Xuan, S Yacoob, R Yamada, M Yan, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, Y Yen, K Yip, HD Yoo, SW Youn, J Yu, A Yurkewicz, A Zabi, A Zatserklyaniy, M Zdrazil, C Zeitnitz, D Zhang, X Zhang, T Zhao, Z Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, R Zitoun, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, D0 Collaboration

Abstract:

We present a study of the decay B0(s) --> J/psiphi. We obtain the CP-odd fraction in the final state at time zero, Rperpendicular = 0.16 +/- 0.10(stat) +/- 0.02 (syst), the average lifetime of the (B0(s), B0(s)) system, tau(B0(s)) = 1.39(+0.13)(-0.16)(stat)(+0.01)(-0.02)(syst) ps, and the relative width difference between the heavy and light mass eigenstates, DeltaGamma/Gamma tripple bond (GammaL - GammaH)/Gamma = 0.24(+0.28)(-0.38)(stat)(+0.03)(-0.04)(syst). With the additional constraint from the world average of the lifetime measurements using semileptonic decays, we find tau(B0(s)) = 1.39 +/- 0.06 ps and DeltaGamma/Gamma = 0.25(+0.14)(-0.15). For the ratio of the B0(s) and B0 lifetimes we obtain tau(B0(s))/tau(B0) = 0.91 +/- 0.09(stat) +/- 0.003(syst).

Measurement of the łÙłÙ̄ production cross section in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV using kinematic characteristics of lepton + jets events

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics 626:1-4 (2005) 45-54

Authors:

VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, JL Agram, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, Y Arnoud, A Askew, B Åsman, ACS Assis Jesus, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, F Badaud, A Baden, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, S Beauceron, M Begalli, M Begel, A Bellavance, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Binder, C Biscarat, KM Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, O Boeriu, TA Bolton, F Borcherding, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, E Busato, CP Buszello, JM Butler, J Cammin, S Caron, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, D Chapin, F Charles, E Cheu, DK Cho, S Choi, B Choudhary, T Christiansen

Abstract:

We present a measurement of the top quark pair (łÙłÙ̄) production cross section (σłÙłÙ̄) in pp̄ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV using 230 pb-1 of data collected by the DØ detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We select events with one charged lepton (electron or muon), large missing transverse energy, and at least four jets, and extract the łÙłÙ̄ content of the sample based on the kinematic characteristics of the events. For a top quark mass of 175 GeV, we measure σłÙłÙ̄=6.7-1.3+1.4(stat) -1.1+1.6(syst)±0.4(lumi) pb, in good agreement with the standard model prediction. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.