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Measurement of the Lifetime Difference between Bs Mass Eigenstates

ContributorsCDF Collaboration
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 94, no. 10, 101803
Publication date2005
Abstract

We present measurements of the lifetimes and polarization amplitudes for B0s→J/ψϕ and B0d→J/ψK*0 decays. Lifetimes of the heavy and light mass eigenstates in the B0s system are separately measured for the first time by determining the relative contributions of amplitudes with definite CP as a function of the decay time. Using 203±15 B0s decays we obtain τL=(1.05+0.16−0.13±0.02)  ps and τH=(2.07+0.58−0.46±0.03)  ps. Expressed in terms of the difference ΔΓs and average Γs, of the decay rates of the two eigenstates, the results are ΔΓs/Γs=(65+25−33±1)% and ΔΓs=(0.47+0.19−0.24±0.01)   ps−1

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CDF Collaboration. Measurement of the Lifetime Difference between Bs Mass Eigenstates. In: Physical review letters, 2005, vol. 94, n° 10, p. 101803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.101803
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