A measurement of the charged and neutral B meson lifetimes using fully reconstructed decays

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24 August 2000

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ex/0008060

Abstract

Data collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B Factory at SLAC are used to study the lifetimes of the B^0 and B^+ mesons. The data sample consists of 7.4 fb-1 collected near the Y(4S) resonance. B^0 and B^+ mesons are fully reconstructed in several exclusive hadronic decay modes to charm and charmonium final states. The B lifetimes are determined from the flight length difference between the two B mesons which are pair-produced in the Y(4S) decay. The preliminary measurements of the lifetimes are tau_B0 = 1.506+/-0.052(stat)+/-0.029(syst) ps, tau_B+ = 1.602+/-0.049(stat)+/-0.035(syst) ps, and of their ratio is tau_B+/tau_B0 = 1.065+/-0.044(stat)+/-0.021(syst).

Keywords

RECONSTRUCTED DECAYS
FULLY RECONSTRUCTED
MESON LIFETIMES
LIFETIMES USING
TAU_B0
MESONS
STAT

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