Measurement of the lifetime of the B_c meson in the semileptonic decay channel

Collaboration, D0 and Bertram, Iain and Borissov, Guennadi and Fox, Harald and Williams, Mark and Ratoff, Peter and Love, Peter and Rakitin, Alexander and Sopczak, Andre (2009) Measurement of the lifetime of the B_c meson in the semileptonic decay channel. Physical review letters, 102 (9): 092001. ISSN 1079-7114

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Abstract

Using approximately 1.3 fb-1 of data collected by the D0 detector between 2002 and 2006, we measure the lifetime of the B_c meson in the B_c -> J/psi mu nu X final state. A simultaneous unbinned likelihood fit to the J/\psi+mu invariant mass and lifetime distributions yields a signal of 881 +/- 80 (stat) candidates and a lifetime measurement of \tau(B_c) = 0.448 +0.038 -0.036 (stat) +/- 0.032 (syst) ps.

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Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Physical review letters
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© 2009 The American Physical Society 7 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100
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?? physics and astronomy(all) ??
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63756
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Deposited On:
29 Apr 2013 11:06
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