A Precise measurement of the average $b$ hadron lifetime

An improved measurement of the average b hadron lifetime is performed using a sample of 1.5 million hadronic Z decays, collected during the 1991–1993 runs of ALEPH, with the silicon vertex detector fully operational. This uses the three-dimensional impact parameter distribution of lepton tracks coming from semileptonic b decays and yields an average b hadron lifetime of 1.533 ± 0.013 ± 0.022 ps.

electron positron: colliding beams
colliding beams: electron positron
electron positron: annihilation
annihilation: electron positron
Z0: electroproduction
electroproduction: Z0
Z0: hadronic decay
hadronic decay: Z0
bottom: pair production
pair production: bottom

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