Measurement of the B(0) and B(+) meson lifetimes with fully reconstructed hadronic final states

B Aubert; D Boutigny; J M Gaillard; A Hicheur; Y Karyotakis; J P Lees; P Robbe; V Tisserand; A Palano; G P Chen; J C Chen; N D Qi; G Rong; P Wang; Y S Zhu; G Eigen; P L Reinertsen; B Stugu; B Abbott; G S Abrams; A W Borgland; A B Breon; D N Brown; J Button-Shafer; R N Cahn; A R Clark; M S Gill; A Gritsan; Y Groysman; R G Jacobsen; R W Kadel; J Kadyk; L T Kerth; S Kluth; Y G Kolomensky; J F Kral; C LeClerc; M E Levi; T Liu; G Lynch; A B Meyer; M Momayezi; P J Oddone; A Perazzo; M Pripstein; N A Roe; A Romosan; M T Ronan; V G Shelkov; A V Telnov; W A Wenzel; P G Bright-Thomas; T J Harrison; C M Hawkes; D J Knowles; S W O'Neale; R C Penny; A T Watson; N K Watson; T Deppermann; K Goetzen; H Koch; J Krug; M Kunze; B Lewandowski; K Peters; H Schmuecker; M Steinke; J C Andress; N R Barlow; W Bhimji; N Chevalier; P J Clark; W N Cottingham; N De Groot; N Dyce; B Foster; J D McFall; D Wallom; F F Wilson; K Abe; C Hearty; T S Mattison; J A McKenna; D Thiessen; S Jolly; A K McKemey; J Tinslay; V E Blinov; A D Bukin; D A Bukin; A R Buzykaev; V B Golubev; V N Ivanchenko; A A Korol; E A Kravchenko; A P Onuchin; A A Salnikov; S I Serednyakov; Y I Skovpen; V I Telnov; A N Yushkov; D Best; A J Lankford; M Mandelkern; S McMahon; D P Stoker; A Ahsan; K Arisaka; C Buchanan; S Chun; J G Branson; D B MacFarlane; S Prell; S Rahatlou; G Raven; V Sharma; C Campagnari; B Dahmes; P A Hart; N Kuznetsova; S L Levy; O Long; A Lu; J D Richman; W Verkerke; M Witherell; S Yellin; J Beringer; D E Dorfan; A M Eisner; A Frey; A A Grillo; M Grothe; C A Heusch; R P Johnson; W Kroeger; W S Lockman; T Pulliam; H Sadrozinski; T Schalk; R E Schmitz; B A Schumm; A Seiden; M Turri; W Walkowiak; D C Williams; M G Wilson; E Chen; G P Dubois-Felsmann; A Dvoretskii; D G Hitlin; S Metzler; J Oyang; F C Porter; A Ryd; A Samuel; M Weaver; S Yang; R Y Zhu; S Devmal; T L Geld; S Jayatilleke; G Mancinelli; B T Meadows; M D Sokoloff; T Barillari; P Bloom; M O Dima; S Fahey; W T Ford; D R Johnson; U Nauenberg; A Olivas; H Park; P Rankin; J Roy; S Sen; J G Smith; W C van Hoek; D L Wagner; J Blouw; J L Harton; M Krishnamurthy; A Soffer; W H Toki; R J Wilson; J Zhang; T Brandt; J Brose; T Colberg; G Dahlinger; M Dickopp; R S Dubitzky; E Maly; R Müller-Pfefferkorn; S Otto; K R Schubert; R Schwierz; B Spaan; L Wilden; L Behr; D Bernard; G R Bonneaud; F Brochard; J Cohen-Tanugi; S Ferrag; E Roussot; S T'Jampens; C Thiebaux; G Vasileiadis; M Verderi; A Anjomshoaa; R Bernet; A Khan; F Muheim; S Playfer; J E Swain; M Falbo; C Borean; C Bozzi; S Dittongo; M Folegani; L Piemontese; E Treadwell; F Anulli; R Baldini-Ferroli; A Calcaterra; R de Sangro; D Falciai; G Finocchiaro; P Patteri; I M Peruzzi; M Piccolo; Y Xie; A Zallo; S Bagnasco; A Buzzo; R Contri; G Crosetti; P Fabbricatore; S Farinon; M Lo Vetere; M Macri; M R Monge; R Musenich; M Pallavicini; R Parodi; S Passaggio; F C Pastore; C Patrignani; M G Pia; C Priano; E Robutti; A Santroni; M Morii; R Bartoldus; T Dignan; R Hamilton; U Mallik; J Cochran; H B Crawley; P A Fischer; J Lamsa; W T Meyer; E I Rosenberg; M Benkebil; G Grosdidier; C Hast; A Höcker; H M Lacker; V LePeltier; A M Lutz; S Plaszczynski; M H Schune; S Trincaz-Duvoid; A Valassi; G Wormser; R M Bionta; V Brigljević; D J Lange; M Mugge; X Shi; K van Bibber; T J Wenaus; D M Wright; C R Wuest; M Carroll; J R Fry; E Gabathuler; R Gamet; M George; M Kay; D J Payne; R J Sloane; C Touramanis; M L Aspinwall; D A Bowerman; P D Dauncey; U Egede; I Eschrich; N J Gunawardane; J A Nash; P Sanders; D Smith; D E Azzopardi; J J Back; P Dixon; P F Harrison; R J Potter; H W Shorthouse; P Strother; P B Vidal; M I Williams; G Cowan; S George; M G Green; A Kurup; C E Marker; P McGrath; T R McMahon; S Ricciardi; F Salvatore; I Scott; G Vaitsas; D Brown; C L Davis; J Allison; R J Barlow; J T Boyd; A C Forti; J Fullwood; F Jackson; G D Lafferty; N Savvas; E T Simopoulos; J H Weatherall; A Farbin; A Jawahery; V Lillard; J Olsen; D A Roberts; J R Schieck; G Blaylock; C Dallapiccola; K T Flood; S S Hertzbach; R Kofler; T B Moore; H Staengle; S Willocq; B Brau; R Cowan; G Sciolla; F Taylor; R K Yamamoto; M Milek; P M Patel; J Trischuk; F Lanni; F Palombo; J M Bauer; M Booke; L Cremaldi; V Eschenburg; R Kroeger; J Reidy; D A Sanders; D J Summers; J P Martin; J Y Nief; R Seitz; P Taras; V Zacek; H Nicholson; C S Sutton; C Cartaro; N Cavallo; G De Nardo; F Fabozzi; C Gatto; L Lista; P Paolucci; D Piccolo; C Sciacca; J M LoSecco; J R Alsmiller; T A Gabriel; T Handler; J Brau; R Frey; M Iwasaki; N B Sinev; D Strom; F Colecchia; F Dal Corso; A Dorigo; F Galeazzi; M Margoni; G Michelon; M Morandin; M Posocco; M Rotondo; F Simonetto; R Stroili; E Torassa; C Voci; M Benayoun; H Briand; J Chauveau; P David; C De la Vaissière; L Del Buono; O Hamon; F Le Diberder; P Leruste; J Lory; L Roos; J Stark; S Versillé; P F Manfredi; V Re; V Speziali; E D Frank; L Gladney; Q H Guo; J H Panetta; C Angelini; G Batignani; S Bettarini; M Bondioli; M Carpinelli; F Forti; M A Giorgi; A Lusiani; F Martinez-Vidal; M Morganti; N Neri; E Paoloni; M Rama; G Rizzo; F Sandrelli; G Simi; G Triggiani; J Walsh; M Haire; D Judd; K Paick; L Turnbull; D E Wagoner; J Albert; C Bula; P Elmer; C Lu; K T McDonald; V Miftakov; S F Schaffner; A J Smith; A Tumanov; E W Varnes; G Cavoto; D del Re; R Faccini; F Ferrarotto; F Ferroni; K Fratini; E Lamanna; E Leonardi; M A Mazzoni; S Morganti; G Piredda; F Safai Tehrani; M Serra; C Voena; S Christ; R Waldi; T Adye; B Franek; N I Geddes; G P Gopal; S M Xella; R Aleksan; G De Domenico; S Emery; A Gaidot; S F Ganzhur; G Hamel de Monchenault; W Kozanecki; M Langer; G W London; B Mayer; B Serfass; G Vasseur; C Yeche; M Zito; N Copty; M V Purohit; H Singh; F X Yumiceva; I Adam; P L Anthony; D Aston; K Baird; E Bloom; A M Boyarski; F Bulos; G Calderini; R Claus; M R Convery; D P Coupal; D H Coward; J Dorfan; M Doser; W Dunwoodie; R C Field; T Glanzman; G L Godfrey; S J Gowdy; P Grosso; T Himel; M E Huffer; W R Innes; C P Jessop; M H Kelsey; P Kim; M L Kocian; U Langenegger; D W Leith; S Luitz; V Luth; H L Lynch; H Marsiske; S Menke; R Messner; K C Moffeit; R Mount; D R Muller; C P O'Grady; M Perl; S Petrak; H Quinn; B N Ratcliff; Robertson S H; L S Rochester; A Roodman; T Schietinger; R H Schindler; J Schwiening; V V Serbo; A Snyder; A Soha; S M Spanier; J Stelzer; D Su; M K Sullivan; H A Tanaka; J Va'vra; S R Wagner; A J Weinstein; W J Wisniewski; D W Wright; C C Young; P R Burchat; C H Cheng; D Kirkby; T I Meyer; C Roat; R Henderson; W Bugg; H Cohn; A W Weideman; J M Izen; L Kitayama; X C Lou; M Turcotte; M Bona; B Di Girolamo; D Gamba; A Smol; D Zanin; L Lanceri; A Pompili; G Vaugnin; R S Panvini; C M Brown; A De Silva; R Kowalewski; J M Roney; H R Band; E Charles; S Dasu; F Di Lodovico; A M Eichenbaum; H Hu; J R Johnson; R Liu; J Nielsen; Y Pan; R Prepost; I J Scott; S J Sekula; J H von Wimmersperg-Toeller; S L Wu; Z Yu; H Zobernig; T M Kordich; H Neal; BABAR Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.201803

Measurement of the B(0) and B(+) meson lifetimes with fully reconstructed hadronic final states

Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Nov 12;87(20):201803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.201803. Epub 2001 Oct 26.

Authors

B Aubert¹, D Boutigny, J M Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, J P Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Palano, G P Chen, J C Chen, N D Qi, G Rong, P Wang, Y S Zhu, G Eigen, P L Reinertsen, B Stugu, B Abbott, G S Abrams, A W Borgland, A B Breon, D N Brown, J Button-Shafer, R N Cahn, A R Clark, M S Gill, A Gritsan, Y Groysman, R G Jacobsen, R W Kadel, J Kadyk, L T Kerth, S Kluth, Y G Kolomensky, J F Kral, C LeClerc, M E Levi, T Liu, G Lynch, A B Meyer, M Momayezi, P J Oddone, A Perazzo, M Pripstein, N A Roe, A Romosan, M T Ronan, V G Shelkov, A V Telnov, W A Wenzel, P G Bright-Thomas, T J Harrison, C M Hawkes, D J Knowles, S W O'Neale, R C Penny, A T Watson, N K Watson, T Deppermann, K Goetzen, H Koch, J Krug, M Kunze, B Lewandowski, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, J C Andress, N R Barlow, W Bhimji, N Chevalier, P J Clark, W N Cottingham, N De Groot, N Dyce, B Foster, J D McFall, D Wallom, F F Wilson, K Abe, C Hearty, T S Mattison, J A McKenna, D Thiessen, S Jolly, A K McKemey, J Tinslay, V E Blinov, A D Bukin, D A Bukin, A R Buzykaev, V B Golubev, V N Ivanchenko, A A Korol, E A Kravchenko, A P Onuchin, A A Salnikov, S I Serednyakov, Y I Skovpen, V I Telnov, A N Yushkov, D Best, A J Lankford, M Mandelkern, S McMahon, D P Stoker, A Ahsan, K Arisaka, C Buchanan, S Chun, J G Branson, D B MacFarlane, S Prell, S Rahatlou, G Raven, V Sharma, C Campagnari, B Dahmes, P A Hart, N Kuznetsova, S L Levy, O Long, A Lu, J D Richman, W Verkerke, M Witherell, S Yellin, J Beringer, D E Dorfan, A M Eisner, A Frey, A A Grillo, M Grothe, C A Heusch, R P Johnson, W Kroeger, W S Lockman, T Pulliam, H Sadrozinski, T Schalk, R E Schmitz, B A Schumm, A Seiden, M Turri, W Walkowiak, D C Williams, M G Wilson, E Chen, G P Dubois-Felsmann, A Dvoretskii, D G Hitlin, S Metzler, J Oyang, F C Porter, A Ryd, A Samuel, M Weaver, S Yang, R Y Zhu, S Devmal, T L Geld, S Jayatilleke, G Mancinelli, B T Meadows, M D Sokoloff, T Barillari, P Bloom, M O Dima, S Fahey, W T Ford, D R Johnson, U Nauenberg, A Olivas, H Park, P Rankin, J Roy, S Sen, J G Smith, W C van Hoek, D L Wagner, J Blouw, J L Harton, M Krishnamurthy, A Soffer, W H Toki, R J Wilson, J Zhang, T Brandt, J Brose, T Colberg, G Dahlinger, M Dickopp, R S Dubitzky, E Maly, R Müller-Pfefferkorn, S Otto, K R Schubert, R Schwierz, B Spaan, L Wilden, L Behr, D Bernard, G R Bonneaud, F Brochard, J Cohen-Tanugi, S Ferrag, E Roussot, S T'Jampens, C Thiebaux, G Vasileiadis, M Verderi, A Anjomshoaa, R Bernet, A Khan, F Muheim, S Playfer, J E Swain, M Falbo, C Borean, C Bozzi, S Dittongo, M Folegani, L Piemontese, E Treadwell, F Anulli, R Baldini-Ferroli, A Calcaterra, R de Sangro, D Falciai, G Finocchiaro, P Patteri, I M Peruzzi, M Piccolo, Y Xie, A Zallo, S Bagnasco, A Buzzo, R Contri, G Crosetti, P Fabbricatore, S Farinon, M Lo Vetere, M Macri, M R Monge, R Musenich, M Pallavicini, R Parodi, S Passaggio, F C Pastore, C Patrignani, M G Pia, C Priano, E Robutti, A Santroni, M Morii, R Bartoldus, T Dignan, R Hamilton, U Mallik, J Cochran, H B Crawley, P A Fischer, J Lamsa, W T Meyer, E I Rosenberg, M Benkebil, G Grosdidier, C Hast, A Höcker, H M Lacker, V LePeltier, A M Lutz, S Plaszczynski, M H Schune, S Trincaz-Duvoid, A Valassi, G Wormser, R M Bionta, V Brigljević, D J Lange, M Mugge, X Shi, K van Bibber, T J Wenaus, D M Wright, C R Wuest, M Carroll, J R Fry, E Gabathuler, R Gamet, M George, M Kay, D J Payne, R J Sloane, C Touramanis, M L Aspinwall, D A Bowerman, P D Dauncey, U Egede, I Eschrich, N J Gunawardane, J A Nash, P Sanders, D Smith, D E Azzopardi, J J Back, P Dixon, P F Harrison, R J Potter, H W Shorthouse, P Strother, P B Vidal, M I Williams, G Cowan, S George, M G Green, A Kurup, C E Marker, P McGrath, T R McMahon, S Ricciardi, F Salvatore, I Scott, G Vaitsas, D Brown, C L Davis, J Allison, R J Barlow, J T Boyd, A C Forti, J Fullwood, F Jackson, G D Lafferty, N Savvas, E T Simopoulos, J H Weatherall, A Farbin, A Jawahery, V Lillard, J Olsen, D A Roberts, J R Schieck, G Blaylock, C Dallapiccola, K T Flood, S S Hertzbach, R Kofler, T B Moore, H Staengle, S Willocq, B Brau, R Cowan, G Sciolla, F Taylor, R K Yamamoto, M Milek, P M Patel, J Trischuk, F Lanni, F Palombo, J M Bauer, M Booke, L Cremaldi, V Eschenburg, R Kroeger, J Reidy, D A Sanders, D J Summers, J P Martin, J Y Nief, R Seitz, P Taras, V Zacek, H Nicholson, C S Sutton, C Cartaro, N Cavallo, G De Nardo, F Fabozzi, C Gatto, L Lista, P Paolucci, D Piccolo, C Sciacca, J M LoSecco, J R Alsmiller, T A Gabriel, T Handler, J Brau, R Frey, M Iwasaki, N B Sinev, D Strom, F Colecchia, F Dal Corso, A Dorigo, F Galeazzi, M Margoni, G Michelon, M Morandin, M Posocco, M Rotondo, F Simonetto, R Stroili, E Torassa, C Voci, M Benayoun, H Briand, J Chauveau, P David, C De la Vaissière, L Del Buono, O Hamon, F Le Diberder, P Leruste, J Lory, L Roos, J Stark, S Versillé, P F Manfredi, V Re, V Speziali, E D Frank, L Gladney, Q H Guo, J H Panetta, C Angelini, G Batignani, S Bettarini, M Bondioli, M Carpinelli, F Forti, M A Giorgi, A Lusiani, F Martinez-Vidal, M Morganti, N Neri, E Paoloni, M Rama, G Rizzo, F Sandrelli, G Simi, G Triggiani, J Walsh, M Haire, D Judd, K Paick, L Turnbull, D E Wagoner, J Albert, C Bula, P Elmer, C Lu, K T McDonald, V Miftakov, S F Schaffner, A J Smith, A Tumanov, E W Varnes, G Cavoto, D del Re, R Faccini, F Ferrarotto, F Ferroni, K Fratini, E Lamanna, E Leonardi, M A Mazzoni, S Morganti, G Piredda, F Safai Tehrani, M Serra, C Voena, S Christ, R Waldi, T Adye, B Franek, N I Geddes, G P Gopal, S M Xella, R Aleksan, G De Domenico, S Emery, A Gaidot, S F Ganzhur, G Hamel de Monchenault, W Kozanecki, M Langer, G W London, B Mayer, B Serfass, G Vasseur, C Yeche, M Zito, N Copty, M V Purohit, H Singh, F X Yumiceva, I Adam, P L Anthony, D Aston, K Baird, E Bloom, A M Boyarski, F Bulos, G Calderini, R Claus, M R Convery, D P Coupal, D H Coward, J Dorfan, M Doser, W Dunwoodie, R C Field, T Glanzman, G L Godfrey, S J Gowdy, P Grosso, T Himel, M E Huffer, W R Innes, C P Jessop, M H Kelsey, P Kim, M L Kocian, U Langenegger, D W Leith, S Luitz, V Luth, H L Lynch, H Marsiske, S Menke, R Messner, K C Moffeit, R Mount, D R Muller, C P O'Grady, M Perl, S Petrak, H Quinn, B N Ratcliff, Robertson S H, L S Rochester, A Roodman, T Schietinger, R H Schindler, J Schwiening, V V Serbo, A Snyder, A Soha, S M Spanier, J Stelzer, D Su, M K Sullivan, H A Tanaka, J Va'vra, S R Wagner, A J Weinstein, W J Wisniewski, D W Wright, C C Young, P R Burchat, C H Cheng, D Kirkby, T I Meyer, C Roat, R Henderson, W Bugg, H Cohn, A W Weideman, J M Izen, L Kitayama, X C Lou, M Turcotte, M Bona, B Di Girolamo, D Gamba, A Smol, D Zanin, L Lanceri, A Pompili, G Vaugnin, R S Panvini, C M Brown, A De Silva, R Kowalewski, J M Roney, H R Band, E Charles, S Dasu, F Di Lodovico, A M Eichenbaum, H Hu, J R Johnson, R Liu, J Nielsen, Y Pan, R Prepost, I J Scott, S J Sekula, J H von Wimmersperg-Toeller, S L Wu, Z Yu, H Zobernig, T M Kordich, H Neal; BABAR Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux, France.

PMID: 11690464
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.201803

Abstract

The B(0) and B(+) meson lifetimes have been measured in e(+)e(-) annihilation data collected in 1999 and 2000 with the BABAR detector at center-of-mass energies near the Upsilon(4S) resonance. Events are selected in which one B meson is fully reconstructed in a hadronic final state while the second B meson is reconstructed inclusively. A combined fit to the B(0) and the B(+) decay time difference distributions yields tau(B(0)) = 1.546+/-0.032(stat)+/-0.022(syst) ps, tau(B(+)) = 1.673+/-0.032(stat)+/-0.023(syst) ps, and tau(B(+))/tau(B(0)) = 1.082+/-0.026(stat)+/-0.012(syst).