Charged track multiplicity in B meson decay -: art. no. 072002

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Brandenburg, G [1 ]
Ershov, A
Gao, YS
Kim, DYJ
Wilson, R
Browder, TE
Li, Y
Rodriguez, JL
Yamamoto, H
Bergfeld, T
Eisenstein, BI
Ernst, J
Gladding, GE
Gollin, GD
Hans, RM
Johnson, E
Karliner, I
Marsh, MA
Palmer, M
Plager, C
Sedlack, C
Selen, M
Thaler, JJ
Williams, J
Edwards, KW
Janicek, R
Patel, PM
Sadoff, AJ
Ammar, R
Baringer, P
Bean, A
Besson, D
Davis, R
Kotov, S
Kravchenko, I
Kwak, N
Zhao, X
Anderson, S
Frolov, VV
Kubota, Y
Lee, SJ
Mahapatra, R
O'Neill, JJ
Poling, R
Riehle, T
Smith, A
Ahmed, S
Alam, MS
Athar, SB
Jian, L
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[1] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[2] Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[3] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[4] Carleton Univ, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[5] Inst Particle Phys, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[6] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[7] Ithaca Coll, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
[8] Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[9] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[10] SUNY Albany, Albany, NY 12222 USA
[11] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[12] Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA
[13] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[14] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[15] Stanford Univ, Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Stanford, CA 94309 USA
[16] So Methodist Univ, Dallas, TX 75275 USA
[17] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[18] Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN 37235 USA
[19] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[20] Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI 48202 USA
[21] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[22] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[23] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[24] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[25] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[26] Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[27] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[28] Univ Texas Pan Amer, Edinburgh, TX 78539 USA
[29] Yonsei Univ, Seoul 120749, South Korea
[30] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2000年 / 61卷 / 07期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.61.072002
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摘要
We have used the CLEO Pi detector to study the multiplicity of charged particles in the decays of B mesons produced at the Y(4S) resonance. Using a sample of 1.5x10(6) B meson pairs, we find the mean inclusive charged particle multiplicity to be 10.71+/-0.02(-0.15)(+0.21) for the decay of the pair. This corresponds to a mean multiplicity of 5.36+/-0.01(-0.08)(+0.11) for a single B meson. Using the same data sample, we have also extracted the mean multiplicities in semileptonic and nonleptonic decays. We measure a mean of 7.82+/-0.05(-0.19)(+0.21) charged particles per BE decay when both mesons decay semileptonically. When neither B mason decays semileptonically, we measure a mean charged particle multiplicity of 11.62+/-0.04(-0.18)(+0.24) per B (B) over bar pair.
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