B flavour tagging using charm decays at the LHCb experiment

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 hadron from the decay of the other b hadron produced in the proton...

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Main Authors: Aaij, Roel (Author) , Aquines Gutiérrez, Osvaldo (Author) , D'Argent, Philippe (Author) , Bachmann, Sebastian (Author) , Bien, Alexander (Author) , Blouw, Johan (Author) , Braun, Svende (Author) , Britsch, Markward (Author) , Comerma-Montells, Albert (Author) , De Cian, Michel (Author) , Dordei, Francesca (Author) , Esen, Sevda (Author) , Gerick, David (Author) , Gersabeck, Evelina (Author) , Grillo, Lucia (Author) , Han, Xiaoxue (Author) , Hansmann-Menzemer, Stephanie (Author) , Jäger, Andreas (Author) , Kolpin, Michael (Author) , Kreplin, Katharina (Author) , Krocker, Georg Alexander (Author) , Leverington, Blake (Author) , Marks, Jörg (Author) , Kecke, Matthieu (Author) , Meißner, Marco (Author) , Mitzel, Dominik (Author) , Neubert, Sebastian (Author) , Neuner, Max (Author) , Nikodem, Thomas (Author) , Piucci, Alessio (Author) , Schmelling, Michael (Author) , Seyfert, Paul (Author) , Stahl, Marian (Author) , Uwer, Ulrich (Author) , Vesterinen, Mika (Author) , Wandernoth, Sebastian (Author) , Zhelezov, Alexey (Author)
Corporate Author: LHCb Collaboration (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: October 5, 2015
In: Journal of Instrumentation
Year: 2015, Volume: 10, Pages: 1-15
ISSN:1748-0221
DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/10/10/P10005
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/10/10/P10005
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Summary: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 hadron from the decay of the other b hadron produced in the proton-proton collision. Charm hadron candidates are identified in a number of fully or partially reconstructed Cabibbo-favoured decay modes. The algorithm is calibrated on the self-tagged decay modes B+ → J/ψ K+ and B0 → J/ψ K*0 using 3.0 fb−1 of data collected by the LHCb experiment at pp centre-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV. Its tagging power on these samples of B → J/ψ X decays is (0.30 ± 0.01 ± 0.01)%.
Item Description:LHCb Collaboration: R. Aaij, O. Aquines Gutierrez, P. d'Argent, S. Bachmann, A. Bien, J. Blouw, S. Braun, M. Britsch, A. Comerma-Montells, M. De Cian, F. Dordei, S. Esen, D. Gerick, E. Gersabeck, L. Grillo, X. Han, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, A. Jaeger, M. Kolpin, K. Kreplin, G. Krocker, B. Leverington, J. Marks, K. Matthieu, M. Meissner, D.S. Mitzel, S. Neubert, M. Neuner, T. Nikodem, A. Piucci, M. Schmelling, P. Seyfert, M. Stahl, U. Uwer, M. Vesterinen, S. Wandernoth, A. Zhelezov [und 692 weitere]
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ISSN:1748-0221
DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/10/10/P10005