Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2003-09-18
Phys.Lett.B578:45-53,2004
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
17 pages, 6 figures; submitted to Physics Letters B
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.057
We have made the first measurement of the double-inclusive B/Bbar energy distribution in e+e- annihilations, using a sample of 400,000 hadronic Z0 decay events recorded in the SLD experiment at SLAC between 1996 and 1998. The small and stable SLC beam spot and the CCD-based vertex detector were used to reconstruct B/Bbar decay vertices with high efficiency and purity, and to provide measurements of the kinematic quantities used to calculate the B energies in this novel technique. We measured the B/Bbar energies with good efficiency and resolution over the full kinematic range. We measured moments of the scaled energies of the B and Bbar hadrons vs. the opening angle between them. By comparing these results with perturbative QCD predictions we tested the ansatz of factorisation in heavy-quark production. A recent next-to-leading order calculation reproduces the data.
Abe Koya
SLD Collaboration
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