Search for time dependent B0(s) - anti-B0(s) oscillations using a vertex charge dipole technique

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Sep, 2002

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Abstract:
We report a search for B0s - B0s-bar oscillations using a sample of 400,000 hadronic Z0 decays collected by the SLD experiment. The analysis takes advantage of the electron beam polarization as well as information from the hemisphere opposite that of the reconstructed B decay to tag the B production flavor. The excellent resolution provided by the pixel CCD vertex detector is exploited to cleanly reconstruct both B and cascade D decay vertices, and tag the B decay flavor from the charge difference between them. We exclude the following values of the B0s - B0s-bar oscillation frequency: Delta m_s < 4.9 ps-1 and 7.9 < Delta m_s < 10.3 ps-1 at the 95% confidence level.
  • 13.20.He
  • 13.25.Hw
  • 14.40.Nd
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • electron: polarized beam
  • Z0: electroproduction
  • Z0: hadronic decay
  • bottom: pair production
  • B/s0 anti-B/s0: oscillation