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Measurement of Lifetime and Decay-Width Difference in Bs0 -> J/ψϕ Decays

ContributorsCDF Collaboration
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 100, no. 12, 121803
Publication date2008
Abstract

We measure the mean lifetime τ=2/(ΓL+ΓH) and the decay-width difference ΔΓ=ΓL−ΓH of the light and heavy mass eigenstates of the B0s meson, B0sL and B0sH, in B0s→J/ψϕ decays using 1.7  fb−1 of data collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp¯ collider. Assuming CP conservation, a good approximation for the B0s system in the standard model, we obtain ΔΓ=0.076+0.059−0.063(stat)±0.006(syst)  ps−1 and τ=1.52±0.04(stat)±0.02(syst)  ps, the most precise measurements to date. Our constraints on the weak phase and ΔΓ are consistent with CP conservation.

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CDF Collaboration. Measurement of Lifetime and Decay-Width Difference in Bs0 -> J/ψϕ Decays. In: Physical review letters, 2008, vol. 100, n° 12, p. 121803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.121803
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