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$B^0_d$-$\bar{B}{}^0_d$ oscillations are observed in ``self-tagged'' samples of partially reconstructed $B$ mesons decaying into a lepton and a charmed meson collected in $p\bar p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8$ TeV. A flavor tagging…
Distinguishing the flavor of $B$ and $\overline B$ hadrons is critical in studies of CP-violation, $B^0 -\overline{B^0}$ mixing, and the underlying $b$-decay mechanisms. Methods of $b$ ``flavor tagging" are broadly divided into ``opposite…
The CDF Collaboration has adapted several heavy flavor tagging techniques and employed them in analyses of time-dependent flavor asymmetries using data from the Tevatron Run I. The tagging algorithms were calibrated using low-P_t inclusive…
A method is proposed for tagging the flavor of neutral $B$ mesons in the study of CP-violating decay asymmetries. The method makes use of a possible difference in interactions in $B \pi$ or $B^* \pi$ systems with isospins 1/2 and 3/2, and…
In CP violation measurements in asymmetric B-factory experiments, a determination of the B flavor of the neutral B mesons is necessary. A new method to this purpose using only three vectors of charged particles has been developed. This…
B^0-anti-B^0 flavor oscillations are studied in e^+e^- annihilation data collected with the BABAR detector at center-of-mass energies near the Y(4S) resonance. One B is reconstructed in a hadronic or semileptonic decay mode, and the flavor…
We report on a measurement of the $B^0_d$ mixing frequency and the calibration of an opposite-side flavor tagger in the D{\O}experiment. Various properties associated with the $b$ quark on the opposite side of the reconstructed $B$ meson…
A new algorithm is developed to identify the flavour of neutral $B$ mesons at production in $pp$ collisions by utilising all tracks from the hadronisation process. The algorithm is calibrated separately for $B^0$ and $B^{0}_{s}$ mesons…
We present a measurement of the B0 B0-bar oscillation frequency using a flavor tagging method based on correlations of B meson flavor with the charge of other particles produced in p p-bar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV. Such correlations…
A new algorithm for the determination of the initial flavour of $B_s^0$ mesons is presented. The algorithm is based on two neural networks and exploits the $b$ hadron production mechanism at a hadron collider. The first network is trained…
An algorithm is described for tagging the flavour content at production of neutral $B$ mesons in the LHCb experiment. The algorithm exploits the correlation of the flavour of a $B$ meson with the charge of a reconstructed secondary charm…
We present a measurement of the mass difference Delta m_d for the B0 meson and the statistical power of the b flavor tagging methods used. The measurement uses 90 (1/pb) of data from p p-bar collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.8 TeV collected with…
A new algorithm based on a deep neural network, DeepSets, for tagging the production flavour of neutral $B^0$ and $B^0_s$ mesons in proton-proton collisions is presented. Exploiting a comprehensive set of tracks associated with the…
We describe a flavor tagging algorithm used in measurements of the CP violation parameter sin2phi_1 at the Belle experiment. Efficiencies and wrong tag fractions are evaluated using flavor-specific B meson decays into hadronic and…
Identifying the flavour of neutral $B$ mesons production is one of the most important components needed in the study of time-dependent $CP$ violation. The harsh environment of the Large Hadron Collider makes it particularly hard to succeed…
The CDF and D0 experiments at the Tevatron $p\bar{p}$ collider established that extensive and detailed exploration of the b-quark dynamics is possible in hadron collisions, with results competitive and supplementary to B-factories. In this…
We report on new flavor tagging algorithms developed to determine the quark-flavor content of bottom ($B$) mesons at Belle II. The algorithms provide essential inputs for measurements of quark-flavor mixing and charge-parity violation. We…
The sensitivity to $B_s$ meson mixing phenomena can be significantly improved by distinguishing the initial meson flavour. The flavour tagging techniques used in the ATLAS measurement of the angular amplitudes contributing to $B_s…
Flavor oscillations of neutral $B$ mesons have been studied in $e^+e^-$ annihilation data collected with the BABAR detector at center-of-mass energies near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance. The data sample used for this purpose consists of…
The forward-backward asymmetry A_{FB}^t in top quark production at the Tevatron has been seen to be anomalously large both by CDF and D0. Parton-level asymmetries as large as 50%, with a large error bar, have been extracted from the data.…