Publication
Title
A measurement of the branching fractions of the b-quark into charged and neutral b-hadrons
Author
Institution/Organisation
DELPHI Collaboration
Abstract
The production fractions of charged and neutral b-hadrons in b-quark events from Z(0) decays have been measured with the DELPHI detector at LEP. An algorithm has been developed, based on a neural network, to estimate the charge of the weakly-decaying b-hadron by distinguishing its decay products from particles produced at the primary vertex. From the data taken in the years 1994 and 1995, the fraction of (b) over bar -quarks fragmenting into positively charged weakly-decaying b-hadrons has been measured to be: f(+) = (42.09+/-0.82(stat)+/-0.89(syst))%. Subtracting the rates for charged Xi(b)(+) and Omega(b)(+) baryons gives the production fraction of B+ mesons: f(Bu) = (40.99+/-0.82(stat)+/-1.11 (syst)) %. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Physics letters : B. - Amsterdam, 1967, currens
Publication
Amsterdam : North-Holland , 2003
ISSN
0370-2693
DOI
10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2003.09.070
Volume/pages
576 :1-2 (2003) , p. 29-42
ISI
000186824500005
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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UAntwerpen
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Affiliation
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