The lifetimes of the and B− mesons are measured using a sample of about four million hadronic Z decays collected from 1991 to 1995 with the Aleph detector at LEP. The data sample has been recently reprocessed, achieving a substantial improvement in the tracking performance. Semileptonic decays of and B− mesons are partially reconstructed by identifying events containing a lepton with an associated D★+ or D0 meson. The proper time of the B meson is estimated from the measured decay length and the momentum of the D-lepton system. A fit to the proper time of 1880 D★+ℓ− and 2856 D0ℓ− candidates yields the following results: , τB−=1.648±0.049±0.035 ps, .

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Measurement of the anti B0 and B− meson lifetimes

FOCARDI, ETTORE;CIULLI, VITALIANO;
2000

Abstract

The lifetimes of the and B− mesons are measured using a sample of about four million hadronic Z decays collected from 1991 to 1995 with the Aleph detector at LEP. The data sample has been recently reprocessed, achieving a substantial improvement in the tracking performance. Semileptonic decays of and B− mesons are partially reconstructed by identifying events containing a lepton with an associated D★+ or D0 meson. The proper time of the B meson is estimated from the measured decay length and the momentum of the D-lepton system. A fit to the proper time of 1880 D★+ℓ− and 2856 D0ℓ− candidates yields the following results: , τB−=1.648±0.049±0.035 ps, .
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R. Barate;D. Decamp;P. Ghez;C. Goy;J.-P. Lees;E. Merle;M.-N. Minard;B. Pietrzyk;S. Bravo;M.P. Casado;M. Chmeissani;J.M. Crespo;E. Fernand...espandi
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