Measurement of the B0 and B+ Meson Lifetimes with Fully Reconstructed Hadronic Final States

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 201803 – Published 26 October 2001
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Abstract

The B0 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 ϒ(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 B0 and the B+ decay time difference distributions yields τB0=1.546±0.032(stat)±0.022(syst)ps, τB+=1.673±0.032(stat)±0.023(syst)ps, and τB+/τB0=1.082±0.026(stat)±0.012(syst).

  • Received 9 July 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.201803

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Vol. 87, Iss. 20 — 12 November 2001

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