Measurement of the B° lifetime with partially reconstructed B° → D*⁻ℓ⁺ νℓ decays

B Aubert; Theresa Harrison; Christopher Hawkes; David Knowles; Stephen O'Neale; Richard Penny; Alan Watson; Nigel Watson

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.011802

Measurement of the B° lifetime with partially reconstructed B° → D*⁻ℓ⁺ νℓ decays

B Aubert, Theresa Harrison, Christopher Hawkes, David Knowles, Stephen O'Neale, Richard Penny, Alan Watson, Nigel Watson

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The B(0) lifetime was measured with a sample of 23 million BB pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e(+)e(-) storage ring during 1999 and 2000. Events from the semileptonic decay B(0)-->D(*-)l(+)nu(l) have been selected with a partial reconstruction method in which only the charged lepton and the slow pi from the D*--->D(0)pi(-) decay are reconstructed. The result is tau(B(0)) = 1.529+/-0.012(stat)+/-0.029(syst) ps.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	011802
Number of pages	1
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	89
Issue number	1
Early online date	1 Jun 2002
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.011802
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2002

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Measurement of the B° lifetime with partially reconstructed B° → D*⁻ℓ⁺ νℓ decays

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