MEASUREMENT OF THE B-S(0) LIFETIME

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作者
ACTON, PD
AKERS, R
ALEXANDER, G
ALLISON, J
ANDERSON, KJ
ARCELLI, S
ASTBURY, A
AXEN, D
AZUELOS, G
BAINES, JTM
BALL, AH
BANKS, J
BARLOW, RJ
BARNETT, S
BARTOLDUS, R
BATLEY, JR
BEAUDOIN, G
BECK, A
BECK, GA
BECKER, J
BEESTON, C
BEHNKE, T
BELL, KW
BELLA, G
BENTKOWSKI, P
BERLICH, P
BETHKE, S
BIEBEL, O
BLOODWORTH, IJ
BOCK, P
BODEN, B
BOSCH, HM
BOUTEMEUR, M
BREUKER, H
BRIGHTTHOMAS, P
BROWN, RM
BUIJS, A
BURCKHART, HJ
BURGARD, C
CAPILUPPI, P
CARNEGIE, RK
CARTER, AA
CARTER, JR
CHANG, CY
CHARLTON, DG
CHU, SL
CLARKE, PEL
CLAYTON, JC
COHEN, I
CONBOY, JE
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[3] UNIV BOLOGNA,DIPARTIMENTO FIS,I-40126 BOLOGNA,ITALY
[4] UNIV BONN,INST PHYS,W-5300 BONN,GERMANY
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[8] CARLETON UNIV,CTR RES PARTICLE PHYS,OTTAWA K1S 5B6,ONTARIO,CANADA
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10.1016/0370-2693(93)90989-U
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
The lifetime of the B(s)0 meson has been measured with the OPAL detector at LEP. A sample of B(s)0 (B(s)0BAR) decays has been obtained using D(s)- l+ (and charge conjugate, where l denotes a lepton) combinations, where the D(s)- was reconstructed in either the phipi- or K*0K- channel. The decay lengths of D(s)- l+ combinations were measured using vertex reconstruction. Proper decay times were obtained by combining these decay lengths with an estimate of the relativistic boost of the B(s)0 and were used in a maximum likelihood fit for the mean B(s)0 lifetime. From approximately 22 D(s)- l+ combinations attributed to B(s)0 decays (after background subtraction) in 1.26 million hadronic Z0 events recorded between 1990 and 1992, we have measured tau(B)s = 1.13(-0.26)+0.35(stat) +/- 0.09(sys) ps.
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