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$B_s$ Mixing at SLD

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We set a preliminary 95% C.L. exclusion on the oscillation frequency of Bs0Bs0ˉB_s^0 - \bar{B_s^0} mixing using a sample of 400,000 hadronic Z0Z^0 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 Bs0B_s^0 by combining a fully reconstructed DsD_s 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 bcb \to c 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 Z0bbˉZ^0 \to b \bar{b} 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 Bs0Bs0ˉB_s^0 - \bar{B_s^0} oscillation frequency: Δms<7.6ps1\Delta m_s < 7.6 ps^{-1} and 11.8<Δms<14.8ps111.8 < \Delta m_s < 14.8 ps^{-1} at the 95% confidence level.

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@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}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure, contributed to the proceedings of DPF2000

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