Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
1999-08-06
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
31 pages, 11 figures, EPS99, Lepton-Photon 99
Scientific paper
We present preliminary results of a new measurement of the inclusive b quark fragmentation function in Z0 decays using a novel kinematic B hadron energy reconstruction technique. The measurement is performed using 150,000 hadronic Z0 events recorded in the SLD experiment at SLAC between 1996 and 1997. The small and stable SLC beam spot and the CCD-based vertex detector are used to reconstruct topological B-decay vertices with high efficiency and purity, and to provide precise measurements of the kinematic quantities used in this technique. We measure the B energy with good efficiency and resolution over the full kinematic range. We compare the measured scaled B hadron energy distribution with several functional forms of the B hadron energy distribution and predictions of several models of b quark fragmentation. Several functions are excluded by the data. The average scaled energy of the weakly decaying B hadron is measured to be xB = 0.714 +/- 0.005 (stat) +/- 0.007 (syst) +/- 0.002 (model) (preliminary).
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