Measurement of B° - B°bar flavor oscillations in hadronic B° decays

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

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Abstract

Flavor oscillations of neutral B mesons have been studied in e+e- annihilation data collected with the BABAR detector at center-of-mass energies near the upsilon(4S) resonance. The data sample used for this purpose consists of events in which one B0 meson is reconstructed in a hadronic decay mode, while the flavor of the recoiling B0 is determined with a tagging algorithm that exploits the correlation between the flavor of the heavy quark and the charges of its decay products. From the time development of the observed mixed and unmixed final states, we determine the B0-B-0 oscillation frequency deltamd to be 0.516+/-0.016(stat)+/-0.010(syst) ps-1.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)221802
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume88
Issue number22
Early online date1 May 2002
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2002

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