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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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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October 5, 2015
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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 |
| Author Notes: | the LHCb collaboration |
| 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)%. |
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| 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] Gesehen am 11.05.2021 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1748-0221 |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1748-0221/10/10/P10005 |