Measurement of the oscillation frequency for B0 - anti-B0 mixing using hadronic B0 decays

Collaboration
Jul, 2002

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Abstract:
The oscillation frequency of B0-B0bar mixing (Delta-m_d) has been measured using 29.1 fb^{-1} of datacollected with the Belle detector at KEKB. This measurement is made through the distributions of the proper decay time difference of B pairs in events tagged as same- and opposite-flavor decays. In each event, one BB is fully reconstructed in a flavor-specific hadronic decay mode, while the flavor of the other is extracted through a likelihood calculated from the b-flavor information carried in its final decay products. We obtain Delta-m_d = (0.528 +- 0.017 +- 0.011) ps^{-1}, where the first error is statistical and the second error is systematic.
Note:
  • 15 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Lett. B Report-no: KEK preprint 2002-63, Belle preprint 2002-20
  • 12.15.Hh
  • 11.30.Er
  • 13.25.Hw
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • Upsilon(10570): electroproduction
  • B: pair production
  • B0 anti-B0: mixing
  • B0: mass difference
  • oscillation: time