Measurement of the Mass Difference m(B0) - m(B+)

Collaboration
May, 2008
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 78 (2008) 011103
e-Print:
Report number:
  • SLAC-PUB-13217,
  • BABAR-PUB-08-002
Experiments:

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Abstract: (arXiv)
Using 230 million B Bbar events recorded with the BABAR detector at the e+ e- storage rings PEP-II, we reconstruct approximately 4100 B0 to J/psi K+ pi- and 9930 B+ to J/psi K+ decays with J/psi to mu+ mu- and e+ e-. From the measured B-momentum distributions in the e+ e- rest frame, we determine the mass difference m(B0) - m(B+) = (+0.33 +- 0.05 +- 0.03) MeV/c^2.
Note:
  • 8 pages, 2 postscript figures, sumbmitted to Phys. Rev. D, Rapid Communications
  • 13.40.Dk
  • 13.25.Hw
  • 14.40.Nd
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • Upsilon(10570): electroproduction
  • B: pair production
  • B: hadronic decay
  • J/psi(3100): leptonic decay
  • final state: (K+ lepton+ lepton-)