$B_s$ Mixing at SLD
Abstract
We set a preliminary 95% C.L. exclusion on the oscillation frequency of mixing using a sample of 400,000 hadronic decays collected by the SLD experiment at the SLC during the 1996-98 run. Three analyses are presented in this paper. The first analysis partially reconstructs the by combining a fully reconstructed with the remaining charged B decay tracks. The second analysis selects a sample of events with a partially reconstructed charm vertex and a lepton track. The third analysis reconstructs b-hadrons topologically and exploits the cascade charge structure to determine the flavor of the b-hadron at decay. All three analyses take advantage of the large forward-backward asymmetry of the polarized decays and information in the hemisphere opposite to the reconstructed B vertex to determine the b-hadron flavor at production. The results of the three analyses are combined to exclude the following values of the oscillation frequency: and at the 95% confidence level.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0011040,
title = {$B_s$ Mixing at SLD},
author = {Cheng-Ju Stephen Lin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0011040},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 1 figure, contributed to the proceedings of DPF2000