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Production of excited beauty states in Z decays

  • D. Buskulic
  • , D. Casper
  • , I. De Bonis
  • , D. Decamp
  • , P. Ghez
  • , C. Goy
  • , J. P. Lees
  • , A. Lucotte
  • , M. N. Minard
  • , P. Odier
  • , B. Pietrzyk
  • , F. Ariztizabal
  • , M. Chmeissani
  • , J. M. Crespo
  • , I. Efthymiopoulos
  • , E. Fernandez
  • , M. Fernandez-Bosman
  • , V. Gaitan
  • , Ll Garrido
  • , M. Martinez
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  • University of São Paulo
  • INFN Sezione di Bari
  • Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Université Blaise Pascal
  • Niels Bohr Institutet
  • NCSR Demokritos
  • University of Edinburgh
  • University of Florence
  • Florida State University
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  • University of Turin
  • Ev-K2-CNR Committee
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  • Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
  • University of Pisa
  • Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche
  • King's College London
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
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  • The University of Sheffield
  • Universität Siegen
  • University of Trieste
  • University of Washington
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Abstract

A data sample of about 3.0 million hadronic Z decays collected by the ALEPH experiment at LEP in the years 1991 through 1994 is used to make an inclusive selection of B hadron events. In this event sample 4227±140±252 B* mesons in the decay B*→Bγ and 1944±108±161 B** u,d mesons decaying into a B meson and a charged pion are reconstructed. Here and in the following B** u,d denotes the eight L=1(bū) and (bd) states and their charge conjugate. For the well established B* meson the following quantities are obtained:ΔM=M B*-MB=(45.30±0.35±0.87) MeV/c2 and N B*/(N B+N B*)=(77.1±2.6±7.0)%. The angular distribution of the photons in the B* rest frame is used to measure the relative contribution of longitudinal B* polarization states to be σ L/(σ L T)=(33±6±5)%. In the M(Bπ)-M(B) mass difference resonance structure is observed at (424±4±10) MeV/c2, for which the shape and position is consistent with the expectation for B** u,d states decaying into B(*)π ±. The relative production rate is determined to be {Mathematical expression} where the third error reflects the uncertainty due to different production and decay models for the broad B** u,d states.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)393-404
Number of pages12
JournalZeitschrift fur Physik C-Particles and Fields
Volume69
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 1995

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