Inclusive Analysis of the b Quark Fragmentation Function in Z Decays at LEP

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16 June 2003

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ex/0210031

Abstract

A study of b quark hadronisation is presented using inclusively reconstructed B hadrons in about four million hadronic Z decays recorded in 1992-2000 with the OPAL detector at LEP. The data are compared to different theoretical models, and fragmentation function parameters of these models are fitted. The average scaled energy of weakly decaying B hadrons is determined to be =0.7193+-0.0016(stat)+0.0036-0.0031(syst)

Keywords

FRAGMENTATION FUNCTION
QUARK FRAGMENTATION
INCLUSIVE ANALYSIS
THEORETICAL MODELS
MODELS ARE FITTED
Z DECAYS
OPAL
LEP

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Published version: The European Physical Journal C, 29 (4), 463.

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