A Measurement of the B_s^0 Lifetime using Reconstructed D_s^- Mesons

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1997-08-16

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9708023v1

Eur.Phys.J.C2:407-416,1998

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

17 pages, LaTeX, uses a4p.sty, 3 eps figures included, submitted to Zeit. Phys. C

Scientific paper

10.1007/s100520050150

We report a measurement of the B^0_s meson lifetime from B_s^0 -> D^-_s X decays, where D_s^- mesons are reconstructed in the D_s^- -> phi pi^- and D_s^- -> K^{*0} K^- decay channels. From approximately 3.7 million hadronic Z^0 decays recorded by the OPAL detector at LEP a sample is selected containing 911 +/- 83 candidates, of which 519 +/- 136 are estimated to be from B_s^0 meson decays. Fitting the distribution of the distance from the beam spot to the decay vertex of the D_s^- candidates with an unbinned likelihood function we measure tau(B_s^0) = 1.72 + 0.20 - 0.19 + 0.18 - 0.17 ps, where the errors are statistical and systematic, respectively.

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