MEASUREMENTS OF Z0-]BBARB DECAYS AND THE SEMILEPTONIC BRANCHING RATIO BR(B-]L+X)

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ADEVA, B
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[1] European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN
[2] INFN - Sezione di Firenze, University of Firenze
[3] Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, CIEMAT
[4] Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
[5] INFN - Sezione di Napoli, University of Naples
[6] Northeastern University, Boston
[7] World Laboratory, FBLJA Project
[8] Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, ETH Zürich
[9] Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
[10] Central Laboratory of Automation and Instrumentation, CLANP, Sofia
[11] INFN - Sezione di Bologna
[12] Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ITEP
[13] University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
[14] Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay
[15] INFN - Sezione di Roma, University of Rome La Sapiena
[16] Princeton University, Princeton
[17] University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
[18] University of Geneva
[19] Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, LAPP
[20] Central Research Institute for Physics, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
[21] National Institute for High Energy Physics, NIKHEF
[22] NIKHEF-H, University of Nijmegen
[23] University of California, San Diego
[24] Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
[25] Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, IN2P3-CNRS/Université Claude Bernard
[26] Purdue University, West Lafayette
[27] Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore
[28] Institute of High Energy Physics, IHEP, Beijing
[29] University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 029
[30] Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge
[31] Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Würenlingen
[32] Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, SIC, Shanghai
[33] University of Lausanne
[34] California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
[35] Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos
[36] Harvard University, Cambridge
[37] Union College, Schenectady
[38] University of Hamburg
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10.1016/0370-2693(91)91347-X
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
We have measured the decay properties of Z0 --> bbBAR from a study of inclusive muon and electron events. The average (e and mu) b-quark semileptonic branching ratio has been determined to be BR (b --> l + X) = 0.119 +/- 0.003 (stat.) +/- 0.006 (syst.), assuming the standard model prediction of GAMMA-bbBAR = 378 +/- 3 MeV. From the ratio of the number of dilepton events to single lepton events, we find BR (b --> l + X) = 0.113 +/- 0.010 (stat.) +/- 0.006 (syst.), without assumptions on GAMMA-bbBAR. The partial decay width of the Z0 into bbBAR has been measured to be GAMMA-bbBAR = 385 +/- 7 (stat.) +/- 11 (syst.) MeV with an additional 19 MeV error from the uncertainty in BR (b --> l + X). The average fractional energy of bottom hadrons in Z0 --> bbBAR events has been determined to be <X(E)> = 0.686 +/- 0.006 (stat.) +/- 0.016 (syst.).
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