Measurement of the Lifetime Difference in the B0s System

DO Collaboration, The and Bertram, Iain A. and Borissov, Guennadi V. and Ratoff, Peter N. and Sopczak, Andre (2005) Measurement of the Lifetime Difference in the B0s System. Physical review letters, 95 (17). p. 171801. ISSN 1079-7114

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

We present a study of the decay BJ/. We obtain the CP-odd fraction in the final state at time zero, R=0.16±0.10(stat)±0.02(syst), the average lifetime of the (B, ) system, (B)=1.39(stat)(syst) ps, and the relative width difference between the heavy and light mass eigenstates, /(L-H)/=0.24(stat)(syst). With the additional constraint from the world average of the B lifetime measurements using semileptonic decays, we find (B)=1.39±0.06 ps and /=0.25. For the ratio of the B and B0 lifetimes we obtain =0.91±0.09(stat)±0.003

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Physical review letters
Additional Information:
Author list is partial - see original article for full author list.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/libraryofcongress/qc
Subjects:
?? B MESONSMESON HADRONIC DECAYCP INVARIANCESEMILEPTONIC DECAYSPHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY(ALL)QC PHYSICS ??
ID Code:
81987
Deposited By:
Deposited On:
08 Oct 2016 00:06
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
Last Modified:
19 Sep 2023 23:49