Measurement of time dependent B(d)0 - anti-B(d)0 mixing

Collaboration
Aug, 1994

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The time dependent mixing of B d 0 – B d 0 mesons has been observed by using the correlations between the charge of D ∗ mesons and the weighted mean charge of particles in each hemisphere. From a reconstructed D ∗± sample corresponding to about 1.7 million hadronic Z 0 decays, the mass difference between the two B d 0 mass eigenstates has been measured to be Δm = 0.50±0.12 ( stat. ) ± 0.06 ( syst. ) h ̵ / ps or, converting into eV/ c 2 : Δm = [3.29 ± 0.79 (stat) ± 0.39 (syst.)] 10 −4 eV/c 2 .
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • colliding beams: electron positron
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • annihilation: electron positron
  • Z0: electroproduction
  • electroproduction: Z0
  • bottom: pair production
  • pair production: bottom
  • B0 anti-B0: mixing
  • time dependence