A Measurement of R(b) using mutually exclusive tags

Collaboration
Feb, 1997
18 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 401 (1997) 163-175
Report number:
  • CERN-PPE-97-018,
  • CERN-PPE-97-18,
  • FSU-SCRI-97-78
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A measurement of R b using five mutually exclusive hemisphere tags has been performed by ALEPH using the full LEP1 statistics. Three tags are designed to select the decay of the Z 0 to b quarks, while the remaining two select Z 0 decays to c and light quarks, and are used to measure the tagging efficiencies. The result, R b = 0.2159 ± 0.0009(stat) ±0.0011(syst), is in agreement with the electroweak theory prediction of 0.2158 ± 0.0003.
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • Z0: electroproduction
  • Z0: hadronic decay
  • Z0: branching ratio
  • bottom: pair production
  • particle identification: flavor
  • efficiency
  • neural network
  • ALEPH