Measurement of b quark fragmentation fractions in the production of strange and light B mesons in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A new technique to measure the ratio of b quark fragmentation fractions in pp collisions is described. Using a 70-pb-1 sample of low-mass dimuon trigger data recorded with the Collider Detector at Fermilab, we identify B mesons by observing the double semileptonic decays bc X with cs X. By counting the numbers of K*(892)0, K*(892)+, and (1020) mesons produced in association with these muon pairs, we measure the ratio of strange to nonstrange B meson production to be fs/(fu+fd)=[21.03.6(stat) -3.0+3.8(syst)]%. This measurement is the most precise available from hadron collisions to date. Limits on the branching fractions of semileptonic charm meson decays with K1(1270), K1* (1410), and K2*(1430) mesons in the final state are also obtained. 1999 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW D

author list (cited authors)

  • Abe, F., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M. G., Amendolia, S. R., Amidei, D., ... Zucchelli, S.

citation count

  • 13

complete list of authors

  • Abe, F||Akimoto, H||Akopian, A||Albrow, MG||Amendolia, SR||Amidei, D||Antos, J||Aota, S||Apollinari, G||Arisawa, T||Asakawa, T||Ashmanskas, W||Atac, M||Azzi-Bacchetta, P||Bacchetta, N||Bagdasarov, S||Bailey, MW||de Barbaro, P||Barbaro-Galtieri, A||Barnes, VE||Barnett, BA||Barone, M||Bauer, G||Baumann, T||Bedeschi, F||Behrends, S||Belforte, S||Bellettini, G||Bellinger, J||Benjamin, D||Bensinger, J||Beretvas, A||Berge, JP||Berryhill, J||Bertolucci, S||Bettelli, S||Bevensee, B||Bhatti, A||Biery, K||Bigongiari, C||Binkley, M||Bisello, D||Blair, RE||Blocker, C||Bloom, K||Blusk, S||Bodek, A||Bokhari, U||Bolla, G||Bonushkin, Y||Bortoletto, D||Boudreau, J||Brandl, A||Breccia, L||Bromberg, C||Bruner, N||Brunetti, R||Buckley-Geer, E||Budd, HS||Burkett, K||Busetto, G||Byon-Wagner, A||Byrum, KL||Campbell, M||Caner, A||Carithers, W||Carlsmith, D||Cassada, J||Castro, A||Cauz, D||Cerri, A||Chang, PS||Chang, PT||Chao, HY||Chapman, J||Cheng, MT||Chertok, M||Chiarelli, G||Chiou, CN||Chlebana, F||Christofek, L||Chiu, ML||Cihangir, S||Clark, AG||Cobal, M||Cocca, E||Contreras, M||Conway, J||Cooper, J||Cordelli, M||Costanzo, D||Couyoumtzelis, C||Cronin-Hennessy, D||Cropp, R||Culbertson, R||Dagenhart, D||Daniels, T||DeJongh, F||Dell'Agnello, S||Dell'Orso, M||Demina, R||Demortier, L||Deninno, M||Derwent, PF||Devlin, T||Dittmann, JR||Donati, S||Done, J||Dorigo, T||Eddy, N||Einsweiler, K||Elias, JE||Ely, R||Engels, E||Erdmann, W||Errede, D||Errede, S||Fan, Q||Feild, RG||Feng, Z||Ferretti, C||Fiori, I||Flaugher, B||Foster, GW||Franklin, M||Freeman, J||Friedman, J||Fukui, Y||Gadomski, S||Galeotti, S||Gallinaro, M||Ganel, O||Garcia-Sciveres, M||Garfinkel, AF||Gay, C||Geer, S||Gerdes, DW||Giannetti, P||Giokaris, N||Giromini, P||Giusti, G||Gold, M||Gordon, A||Goshaw, AT||Gotra, Y||Goulianos, K||Grassmann, H||Green, C||Groer, L||Grosso-Pilcher, C||Guillian, G||da Costa, JG||Guo, RS||Haber, C||Hafen, E||Hahn, SR||Hamilton, R||Handa, T||Handler, R||Hao, U||Happacher, F||Hara, K||Hardman, AD||Harris, RM||Hartmann, F||Hauser, J||Hayashi, E||Heinrich, J||Heiss, A||Hinrichsen, B||Hoffman, KD||Holck, C||Hollebeek, R||Holloway, L||Huang, Z||Huffman, BT||Hughes, R||Huston, J||Huth, J||Ikeda, H||Incagli, M||Incandela, J||Introzzi, G||Iwai, J||Iwata, Y||James, E||Jensen, H||Joshi, U||Kajfasz, E||Kambara, H||Kamon, T||Kaneko, T||Karr, K||Kasha, H||Kato, Y||Keaffaber, TA||Kelley, K||Kelly, M||Kennedy, RD||Kephart, R||Kestenbaum, D||Khazins, D||Kiuchi, T||Kirk, M||Kim, BJ||Kim, HS||Kim, SH||Kim, YK||Kirsch, L||Klimenko, S||Knoblauch, D||Koehn, P||Kongeter, A||Kondo, K||Konigsberg, J||Kordas, K||Korytov, A||Kovacs, E||Kowald, W||Kroll, J||Kruse, M||Kuhlmann, SE||Kuns, E||Kurino, K||Kuwabara, T||Laasanen, AT||Lami, S||Lammel, S||Lamoureux, JI||Lancaster, M||Lanzoni, M||Latino, G||LeCompte, T||Leone, S||Lewis, JD||Lindgren, M||Liss, TM||Liu, JB||Liu, YC||Lockyer, N||Long, O||Loreti, M||Lucchesi, D||Lukens, P||Lusin, S||Lys, J||Maeshima, K||Maksimovic, P||Mangano, M||Mariotti, M||Marriner, JP||Martignon, G||Martin, A||Matthews, JAJ||Mazzanti, P||McFarland, K||McIntyre, P||Melese, P||Menguzzato, M||Menzione, A||Meschi, E||Metzler, S||Miao, C||Miao, T||Michail, G||Miller, R||Minato, H||Miscetti, S||Mishina, M||Miyashita, S||Moggi, N||Moore, E||Morita, Y||Mukherjee, A||Muller, T||Munar, A||Murat, P||Murgia, S||Musy, M||Nakada, H||Nakaya, T||Nakano, I||Nelson, C||Neuberger, D||Newman-Holmes, C||Ngan, CYP||Niu, H||Nodulman, L||Nomerotski, A||Oh, SH||Ohmoto, T||Ohsugi, T||Oishi, R||Okabe, M||Okusawa, T||Olsen, J||Pagliarone, C||Paoletti, R||Papadimitriou, V||Pappas, SP||Parashar, R||Parri, A||Partos, D||Patrick, J||Pauletta, G||Paulini, M||Perazzo, A||Pescara, L||Peters, MD||Phillips, TJ||Piacentino, G||Pillai, M||Pitts, KT||Plunkett, R||Pompos, A||Pondrom, L||Proudfoot, J||Ptohos, F||Punzi, G||Ragan, K||Reher, D||Ribon, A||Rimondi, F||Ristori, L||Robertson, WJ||Robinson, A||Rodrigo, T||Rolli, S||Rosenson, L||Roser, R||Saab, T||Sakumoto, WK||Saltzberg, D||Sansoni, A||Santi, L||Sato, H||Schlabach, P||Schmidt, EE||Schmidt, MP||Scott, A||Scribano, A||Segler, S||Seidel, S||Seiya, Y||Semeria, F||Shah, T||Shapiro, MD||Shaw, NM||Shepard, PF||Shibayama, T||Shimojima, M||Shochet, M||Siegrist, J||Sill, A||Sinervo, P||Singh, P||Sliwa, K||Smith, C||Snider, FD||Spalding, J||Speer, T||Sphicas, P||Spinella, F||Spiropulu, M||Spiegel, L||Stanco, L||Steele, J||Stefanini, A||Strohmer, R||Strologas, J||Strumia, F||Stuart, D||Sumorok, K||Suzuki, J||Suzuki, T||Takahashi, T||Takano, T||Takashima, R||Takikawa, K||Tanaka, M||Tannenbaum, B||Tartarelli, F||Taylor, W||Tecchio, M||Teng, PK||Teramoto, Y||Terashi, K||Tether, S||Theriot, D||Thomas, TL||Thurman-Keup, R||Timko, M||Tipton, P||Titov, A||Tkaczyk, S||Toback, D||Tollefson, K||Tollestrup, A||Toyoda, H||Trischuk, W||de Troconiz, JF||Truitt, S||Tseng, J||Turini, N||Uchida, T||Ukegawa, F||Valls, J||van den Brink, SC||Vejcik, S||Velev, G||Vidal, R||Vilar, R||Vologouev, I||Vucinic, D||Wagner, RG||Wagner, RL||Wahl, J||Wallace, NB||Walsh, AM||Wang, C||Wang, CH||Wang, MJ||Warburton, A||Watanabe, T||Watts, T||Webb, R||Wei, C||Wenzel, H||Wester, WC||Wicklund, AB||Wicklund, E||Wilkinson, R||Williams, HH||Wilson, P||Winer, BL||Winn, D||Wolinski, D||Wolinski, J||Worm, S||Wu, X||Wyss, J||Yagil, A||Yao, W||Yasuoka, K||Yeh, GP||Yeh, P||Yoh, J||Yosef, C||Yoshida, T||Yu, I||Zanetti, A||Zetti, F||Zucchelli, S

publication date

  • November 1999