The inclusive charm production rate in W decays is measured from a study of the properties of final state particles. The sample of W pairs is selected from 67.7 pb−1 collected by ALEPH in 1996 and 1997 at centre-of-mass energies near 172 and 183 GeV in the channels W+W−→4q and . The branching fraction of hadronic W decays to a final state containing a c quark, RWc= Γ(W→cX)/Γ(W→hadrons), is measured to be 0.51±0.05stat±0.03syst. This allows a direct determination of the CKM matrix element |Vcs|=1.00±0.11stat±0.07syst.

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A direct measurement of |Vcs| in hadronic W decays using a charm tag

FOCARDI, ETTORE;CIULLI, VITALIANO;
1999

Abstract

The inclusive charm production rate in W decays is measured from a study of the properties of final state particles. The sample of W pairs is selected from 67.7 pb−1 collected by ALEPH in 1996 and 1997 at centre-of-mass energies near 172 and 183 GeV in the channels W+W−→4q and . The branching fraction of hadronic W decays to a final state containing a c quark, RWc= Γ(W→cX)/Γ(W→hadrons), is measured to be 0.51±0.05stat±0.03syst. This allows a direct determination of the CKM matrix element |Vcs|=1.00±0.11stat±0.07syst.
1999
465
349
362
R. Barate;D. Decamp;P. Ghez;C. Goy;S. Jezequel;J.-P. Lees;F. Martin;E. Merle;M.-N. Minard;B. Pietrzyk;R. Alemany;S. Bravo;M.P. Casado;M. Chmeissani;J.M. Crespo;E. Fernandez;M. Fernandez-Bosman;Ll. Garrido;E. Graugès;A. Juste;M. Martinez;G. Merino;R. Miquel;Ll.M. Mir;P. Morawitz;A. Pacheco;I. Riu;H. Ruiz;A. Colaleo;D. Creanza;M. de Palma;G. Iaselli;G. Maggi;M. Maggi;S. Nuzzo;A. Ranieri;G. Raso;F. Ruggieri;G. Selvaggi;L. Silvestris;P. Tempesta;A. Tricomi;G. Zito;X. Huang;J. Lin;Q. Ouyang;T. Wang;Y. Xie;R. Xu;S. Xue;J. Zhang;L. Zhang;W. Zhao;D. Abbaneo;U. Becker;G. Boix;O. Buchmüller;M. Cattaneo;F. Cerutti;V. Ciulli;G. Dissertori;H. Drevermann;R.W. Forty;M. Frank;F. Gianotti;T.C. Greening;A.W. Halley;J.B. Hansen;J. Harvey;P. Janot;B. Jost;I. Lehraus;O. Leroy;P. Maley;P. Mato;A. Minten;A. Moutoussi;F. Ranjard;L. Rolandi;D. Schlatter;M. Schmitt;O. Schneider;P. Spagnolo;W. Tejessy;F. Teubert;E. Tournefier;A.E. Wright;Z. Ajaltouni;F. Badaud;G. Chazelle;O. Deschamps;S. Dessagne;A. Falvard;C. Ferdi;P. Gay;C. Guicheney;P. Henrard;J. Jousset;B. Michel;S. Monteil;J-C. Montret;D. Pallin;P. Perret;F. Podlyski;J.D. Hansen;J.R. Hansen;P.H. Hansen;B.S. Nilsson;B. Rensch;A. Wäänänen;G. Daskalakis;A. Kyriakis;C. Markou;E. Simopoulou;A. Vayaki;A. Blondel;J.-C. Brient;F. Machefert;A. Rougé;M. Swynghedauw;R. Tanaka;A. Valassi;H. Videau;E. Focardi;G. Parrini;K. Zachariadou;M. Corden;C. Georgiopoulos;A. Antonelli;G. Bencivenni;G. Bologna;F. Bossi;P. Campana;G. Capon;V. Chiarella;P. Laurelli;G. Mannocchi;F. Murtas;G.P. Murtas;L. Passalacqua;M. Pepe-Altarelli;M. Chalmers;L. Curtis;J.G. Lynch;P. Negus;V. O'Shea;B. Raeven;C. Raine;D. Smith;P. Teixeira-Dias;A.S. Thompson;J.J. Ward;R. Cavanaugh;S. Dhamotharan;C. Geweniger;P. Hanke;V. Hepp;E.E. Kluge;A. Putzer;K. Tittel;S. Werner;M. Wunsch;R. Beuselinck;D.M. Binnie;W. Cameron;P.J. Dornan;M. Girone;S. Goodsir;N. Marinelli;E.B. Martin;J. Nash;J. Nowell;H. Przysiezniak;A. Sciabà;J.K. Sedgbeer;E. Thomson;M.D. Williams;V.M. Ghete;P. Girtler;E. Kneringer;D. Kuhn;G. Rudolph;C.K. Bowdery;P.G. Buck;G. Ellis;A.J. Finch;F. Foster;G. Hughes;R.W.L. Jones;N.A. Robertson;M. Smizanska;M.I. Williams;I. Giehl;F. Hölldorfer;K. Jakobs;K. Kleinknecht;M. Kröcker;A.-S. Müller;H.-A. Nürnberger;G. Quast;B. Renk;E. Rohne;H.-G. Sander;S. Schmeling;H. Wachsmuth;C. Zeitnitz;T. Ziegler;J.J. Aubert;A. Bonissent;J. Carr;P. Coyle;A. Ealet;D. Fouchez;A. Tilquin;M. Aleppo;M. Antonelli;S. Gilardoni;F. Ragusa;V. Büscher;H. Dietl;G. Ganis;K. Hüttmann;G. Lütjens;C. Mannert;W. Männer;H.-G. Moser;S. Schael;R. Settles;H. Seywerd;H. Stenzel;W. Wiedenmann;G. Wolf;P. Azzurri;J. Boucrot;O. Callot;S. Chen;M. Davier;L. Duflot;J.-F. Grivaz;Ph. Heusse;A. Jacholkowska;M. Kado;J. Lefrançois;L. Serin;J.-J. Veillet;I. Videau;J.-B. de Vivie de Régie;D. Zerwas;G. Bagliesi;T. Boccali;C. Bozzi;G. Calderini;R. Dell'Orso;I. Ferrante;A. Giassi;A. Gregorio;F. Ligabue;P.S. Marrocchesi;A. Messineo;F. Palla;G. Rizzo;G. Sanguinetti;G. Sguazzoni;R. Tenchini;A. Venturi;P.G. Verdini;G.A. Blair;J. Coles;G. Cowan;M.G. Green;D.E. Hutchcroft;L.T. Jones;T. Medcalf;J.A. Strong;D.R. Botterill;R.W. Clifft;T.R. Edgecock;P.R. Norton;J.C. Thompson;I.R. Tomalin;B. Bloch-Devaux;P. Colas;B. Fabbro;G. Faïf;E. Lançon;M.-C. Lemaire;E. Locci;P. Perez;J. Rander;J.-F. Renardy;A. Rosowsky;P. Saeger;A. Trabelsi;B. Tuchming;B. Vallage;S.N. Black;J.H. Dann;C. Loomis;H.Y. Kim;N. Konstantinidis;A.M. Litke;M.A. McNeil;G. Taylor;C.N. Booth;S. Cartwright;F. Combley;P.N. Hodgson;M. Lehto;L.F. Thompson;K. Affholderbach;A. Böhrer;S. Brandt;C. Grupen;J. Hess;A. Misiejuk;G. Prange;U. Sieler;G. Giannini;B. Gobbo;J. Putz;J. Rothberg;S. Wasserbaech;R.W. Williams;S.R. Armstrong;P. Elmer;D.P.S. Ferguson;Y. Gao;S. González;O.J. Hayes;H. Hu;S. Jin;J. Kile;P.A. McNamara III;J. Nielsen;W. Orejudos;Y.B. Pan;Y. Saadi;I.J. Scott;J. Walsh;J.H. von Wimmersperg-Toeller;Sau Lan Wu;X. Wu;G. Zobernig
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