Measurement of the Lifetime Difference Between B_s Mass Eigenstates

Details Measurement of the Lifetime Difference Between B_s Mass Eigenstates Measurement of the Lifetime Difference Between B_s Mass Eigenstates

2004-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0412057v3

Phys.Rev.Lett.94:101803,2005

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; as published in Physical Review Letters on 16 March 2005; revisions are for length and typesetti

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.101803

We present measurements of the lifetimes and polarization amplitudes for B_s --> J/psi phi and B_d --> J/psi K*0 decays. Lifetimes of the heavy (H) and light (L) mass eigenstates in the B_s 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 B_s decays, we obtain tau_L = (1.05 +{0.16}/-{0.13} +/- 0.02) ps and tau_H = (2.07 +{0.58}/-{0.46} +/- 0.03) ps. Expressed in terms of the difference DeltaGamma_s and average Gamma_s, of the decay rates of the two eigenstates, the results are DeltaGamma_s/Gamma_s = (65 +{25}/-{33} +/- 1)%, and DeltaGamma_s = (0.47 +{0.19}/-{0.24} +/- 0.01) inverse ps.

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