Published September 1999 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurement of the Bd0 bar Bd0 oscillation frequency using dimuon data in p bar p collisions at √ (s) =1.8 TeV

  • 1. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)
  • 2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, University of Bologna, I-40127 Bologna (Italy)
  • 3. Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254 (United States)
  • 4. University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024 (United States)
  • 5. University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (United States)
  • 6. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (United States)
  • 7. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)
  • 8. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 (United States)
  • 9. Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, I-00044 Frascati (Italy)
  • 10. University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Switzerland)

Description

We present a measurement of the mass difference Δmd of the two Bd0 mass eigenstates. We use a flavor tagging method based on the lepton charge, in a sample of events with two muons at low transverse momentum. The sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 90 pb-1 collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. The result obtained is Δmd=0.503±0.064(stat)±0.071(syst) ps-1. copyright 1999 The American Physical Society

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
60
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 051101
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ