Measurement of the B0-anti-B0-Oscillation Frequency with Inclusive Dilepton Events
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- 31 December 2001
Abstract
The $B^0$-$\bar B^0$ oscillation frequency has been measured with a sample of 23 million $\B\bar B$ pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B Factory at SLAC. In this sample, we select events in which both B mesons decay semileptonically and use the charge of the leptons to identify the flavor of each B meson. A simultaneous fit to the decay time difference distributions for opposite- and same-sign dilepton events gives $\Delta m_d = 0.493 \pm 0.012{(stat)}\pm 0.009{(syst)}$ ps$^{-1}$.
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- Version 1, 2001-12-31, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review Letters, 88 (22), 221803.
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