Measurement of the B0 - anti-B0 mixing parameter Delta m(d) using semileptonic B0 decays

Collaboration
Jul, 2002
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 89 (2002) 251803
e-Print:
Report number:
  • KEK-PREPRINT-2002-69,
  • BELLE-PREPRINT-2002-23
Experiments:

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Abstract:
We present a measurement of the B^0-B^0bar mixing parameter Delta m_d using neutral B meson pairs in a 29.1 fb^{-1} data sample collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e^+e^- collider. We exclusively reconstruct one neutral B meson in the semileptonic B^0 \to D^{*-}\ell^+\nu decay mode and identify the flavor of the accompanying B meson from its decay products. From the distribution of the time intervals between the two flavor-tagged B meson decay points, we obtain Delta m_d = (0.494 +- 0.012 +- 0.015) ps^{-1}, where the first error is statistical and the second error is systematic.
Note:
  • 10 pages, 3 figures, Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 89, 251803 (2002) Journal-ref: Physical Review Letters 89, 251803 (2002)
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • Upsilon(10570): electroproduction
  • B0: pair production
  • B0: semileptonic decay
  • B0 anti-B0: mixing
  • B0: mass difference
  • D*(2010)
  • particle identification: flavor
  • flavor: asymmetry