Measurement of the Bd 0-B̄d 0 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
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.Measurement of the BS 0 meson lifetime using semileptonic decays
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 59:3 (1999) 1-14
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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.Event-building and PC farm based Level-3 trigger at the CDF experiment
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (1999) 28-32
IR limits, pregalactic stars, neutrino decay and quantum gravity
Astroparticle Physics 11:1-2 (1999) 103-109
Abstract:
The results of recent studies which seek to probe fundamental aspects of astrophysics using TeV gamma-ray observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are presented. These analyses take advantage of both spectral and temporal information together with the unique combination of the very high energies and large distance scales involved. The next generation of instruments currently planned are expected to make substantial improvements in the study of such phenomena. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.Limits to quantum gravity effects on energy dependence of the speed of light from observations of tev flares in active galaxies
Physical Review Letters 83:11 (1999) 2108-2111