Measurement of $b$ quark fragmentation fractions in the production of strange and light $B$ mesons in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.8$ TeV - INSPIRE

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Measurement of $b$ quark fragmentation fractions in the production of strange and light $B$ mesons in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.8$ TeV

CDF

Collaboration

1999

14 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 60 (1999) 092005

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.60.092005

PDG:

{{\overline{\mathit b}}}

\rightarrow

{{\mathit B}^{+}}

Report number:

FERMILAB-PUB-99-413-CD

Experiments:

FNAL-E-0741

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A new technique to measure the ratio of b quark fragmentation fractions in pp¯ collisions is described. Using a 70−pb−1 sample of low-mass dimuon trigger data recorded with the Collider Detector at Fermilab, we identify B mesons by observing the double semileptonic decays b→cμX with c→sμX. By counting the numbers of K*(892)0, K*(892)+, and φ(1020) mesons produced in association with these muon pairs, we measure the ratio of strange to nonstrange B meson production to be fs/(fu+fd)=[21.0±3.6(stat)−3.0+3.8(syst)]%. This measurement is the most precise available from hadron collisions to date. Limits on the branching fractions of semileptonic charm meson decays with K1(1270), K1*(1410), and K2*(1430) mesons in the final state are also obtained.

anti-p p: colliding beams
B: hadroproduction
B: semileptonic decay
B: cascade decay
muon: pair production
K*(892): associated production
Phi(1020): associated production
bottom
quark: fragmentation
charmed meson: semileptonic decay

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