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Measurement of the Bd0-B̄d0 flavor oscillation frequency and study of same side flavor tagging of B mesons in pp̄ collisions

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 59:3 (1999) 1-41

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, A Amadon, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, P De Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, M Barone, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, S Bettelli, B Bevensee, A Bhatti, K Biery, C Bigongiari, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, S Blusk, A Bodek, W Bokhari, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, L Breccia, C Bromberg, N Bruner, R Brunetti, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, J Cassada, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, PS Chang, PT Chang, HY Chao, J Chapman, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, CN Chiou, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, E Cocca, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, D Costanzo, C Couyoumtzelis, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, T Daniels, F DeJongh, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, R Demina, L Demortier

Abstract:

Bd0-B̄d0 oscillations are observed in "self-tagged" samples of partially reconstructed B mesons decaying into a lepton and a charmed meson collected in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.8 TeV. A flavor tagging technique is employed which relies upon the correlation between the flavor of B mesons and the charge of a nearby particle. We measure the flavor oscillation frequency to be Δmd=0.471-0.068+0.078±0.034 ps-1. The tagging method is also demonstrated in exclusive samples of Bu+→J/ψK+ and Bd0→J/ψK*0(892), where similar flavor-charge correlations are observed. The tagging characteristics of the various samples are compared with each other, and with Monte Carlo simulations.
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Measurement of the BS0 meson lifetime using semileptonic decays

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 59:3 (1999) 1-14

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, A Amadon, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, P De Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, M Barone, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, S Bettelli, B Bevensee, A Bhatti, K Biery, C Bigongiari, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, S Blusk, A Bodek, W Bokhari, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, L Breccia, C Bromberg, N Bruner, R Brunetti, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, J Cassada, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, PS Chang, PT Chang, HY Chao, J Chapman, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, CN Chiou, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, E Cocca, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, D Costanzo, C Couyoumtzelis, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, T Daniels, F DeJongh, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, R Demina, L Demortier

Abstract:

The lifetime of the BS0 meson is measured using the semileptonic decay BS0→DS-l+νX. The data sample consists of about 110 pb-1 of pp̄ collisions at √s=1.8 TeV collected by the CDF detector at Fermilab. Four different DS- decay modes are reconstructed resulting in approximately 600 DS-l+ signal events. The BS0 meson lifetime is determined to be τ(BS0)=(1.36±0.09-0.05+0.06) ps, where the first and second uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The BS0 meson decay length distribution is examined for a lifetime difference ΔΓ/Γ between the two mass eigenstates of the BS0 meson. An upper limit of ΔΓ/Γ<0.83 is set at the 95% confidence level.
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Measurement of the Associated $γ+ μ^\pm$ Production Cross Section in $p \bar p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8$ TeV

ArXiv hep-ex/9902001 (1999)
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Comparison of Fiber Polishing Techniques

Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) (1999)

Authors:

Pierrick Hanlet, Matthew Marcus, Elizabeth Gallas
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Dijet mass spectrum and a search for quark compositeness in (p)p collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV

Physical Review Letters 82:12 (1999) 2457-2462

Authors:

B Abbott, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, I Adam, DL Adams, M Adams, S Ahn, H Aihara, GA Alves, N Amos, EW Anderson, R Astur, MM Baarmand, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, A Baden, V Balamurali, B Baldin, S Banerjee, J Bantly, E Barberis, P Baringer, JF Bartlett, A Belyaev, SB Beri, I Bertram, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, N Biswas, G Blazey, S Blessing, P Bloom, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, F Borcherding, C Boswell, A Brandt, R Breedon, R Brock, A Bross, D Buchholz, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, W Carvalho, D Casey, Z Casilum, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, SM Chang, SV Chekulaev, LP Chen, W Chen, S Choi, S Chopra, BC Choudhary, JH Christenson, M Chung, D Claes, AR Clark, WG Cobau, J Cochran, L Coney, WE Cooper, C Cretsinger, D Cullen-Vidal, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, OI Dahl, K Davis, K De, K Del Signore, M Demarteau, D Denisov, SP Denisov, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, G Di Loreto, P Draper, Y Ducros, LV Dudko, SR Dugad, A Dyshkant, D Edmunds, J Ellison, VD Elvira, R Engelmann, S Eno, G Eppley, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, VN Evdokimov, T Fahland, MK Fatyga, S Feher, D Fein, T Ferbel, G Finocchiaro

Abstract:

Using the DZero detector at the 1.8 TeV pbarp Fermilab Tevatron collider, we have measured the inclusive dijet mass spectrum in the central pseudorapidity region |eta_jet| < 1.0 for dijet masses greater than 200 Gev/c^2. We have also measured the ratio of spectra sigma(|eta_jet| < 0.5)/sigma(0.5 < |eta_jet| < 1.0). The order alpha_s^3 QCD predictions are in good agreement with the data and we rule out models of quark compositeness with a contact interaction scale < 2.4 TeV at the 95% confidence level. © 1999 The American Physical Society.
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