A measurement of B⁰ anti-B⁰ oscillations using fully-reconstructed hadronic B decays at BaBar
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Brau, Benjamin Paul, 1971-
Advisor(s)
Richard K. Yamamoto.
Date Issued
2002
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Flavor oscillations of neutral B mesons have been studied with e+e- annihilation data collected at center of mass energies near the [gamma](4S) at the PEP-II asymmetric collider with the BABAR detector. One B⁰ is fully reconstructed in a hadronic decay to a flavor eigenstate. The flavor of the other B in the event is determined using an inclusive tagging algorithm which exploits the correlations between the flavor of the b quark and the charges of its decay products. By fitting the decay-time distribution of the observed mixed and unmixed final states, the oscillation frequency, [Delta]md, is determined to be 0.516 +/- 0.016 (stat.) +/- 0.010 (syst.) ps-l.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-168).
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Physics.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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