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Identification of Neutral B Mesons Using Correlated Hadrons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-01 v1

Abstract

The identification of the flavor of a neutral BB meson can make use of hadrons produced nearby in phase space. Examples include the decay of ``BB^{**}'' resonances or the production of hadrons as a result of the fragmentation process. Some aspects of this method are discussed, including time-dependent effects in neutral BB decays to flavor states, to eigenstates of CP and to other states, and the effects of possible coherence between B0B^0 and B0\overline{B}^0 in the initial state. We study the behavior of the leading hadrons in bb-quark jets and the expected properties of BB^{**} resonances. These are extrapolated from the corresponding DD^{**} resonances, of whose properties we suggest further studies.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9308371,
  title  = {Identification of Neutral B Mesons Using Correlated Hadrons},
  author = {Michael Gronau and Jonathan L. Rosner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9308371},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

To be submitted to Phys. Rev. D. 26 pages, LaTeX, figures not included (available upon request). Technion-PH-93-32 / EFI 93-41