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Flavor Tagging at Tevatron incl. calibration and control

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

This report summarizes the flavor tagging techniques developed at the CDF and D{\O}experiments. Flavor tagging involves identification of the B meson flavor atproduction, whether its constituent is a quark or an anti-quark. It is crucial for measuring the oscillation frequency of neutral B mesons, both in the B^0 and B_S system. The two experiments have developed their unique approaches to flavor tagging, using neural networks, and likelihood methods to disentangle tracks from bb decays from other tracks. This report discusses these techniques and the measurement of B^0 mixing, as a means to calibrate the taggers.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0701022,
  title  = {Flavor Tagging at Tevatron incl. calibration and control},
  author = {T. Moulik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0701022},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

6 pages, 7 Figures, Write-up for Beauty 2006 Conference proceedings