Abulencia, A;
Acosta, D;
Adelman, J;
Affolder, T;
Akimoto, T;
Albrow, MG;
Ambrose, D;
... Zucchelli, S; + view all
(2006)
Measurement of the B-c(+) meson lifetime using the decay mode B-c(+)-> J/psi e(+)nu(e).
Physical Review Letters
, 97
(1)
, Article 012002. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.012002.
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Abstract
We present a measurement of the B-c(+) meson lifetime in the decay mode B-c(+) -> J/psi e(+) nu(e) using the Collider Detector at Fermilab II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. From a sample of about 360 pb(-1) of pp collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV, we reconstruct J/psi e(+) pairs with invariant mass in the kinematically allowed range 4 < M-J/psi e < 6 GeV/c(2). A fit to the decay-length distribution of 238 signal events yields a measured B-c(+) meson lifetime of 0.463(-0.065)(+0.073) (stat) +/- 0.036 (syst) ps.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Measurement of the B-c(+) meson lifetime using the decay mode B-c(+)-> J/psi e(+)nu(e) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.012002 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.012002 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2006 The American Physical Society |
| Keywords: | PHYSICS |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/131790 |
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