Measurement of the Bc+ meson lifetime using the decay mode Bc+ --> J/Psie+nue

A Abulencia; D Acosta; J Adelman; T Affolder; T Akimoto; M G Albrow; D Ambrose; S Amerio; D Amidei; A Anastassov; K Anikeev; A Annovi; J Antos; M Aoki; G Apollinari; J-F Arguin; T Arisawa; A Artikov; W Ashmanskas; A Attal; F Azfar; P Azzi-Bacchetta; P Azzurri; N Bacchetta; H Bachacou; W Badgett; A Barbaro-Galtieri; V E Barnes; B A Barnett; S Baroiant; V Bartsch; G Bauer; F Bedeschi; S Behari; S Belforte; G Bellettini; J Bellinger; A Belloni; E Ben Haim; D Benjamin; A Beretvas; J Beringer; T Berry; A Bhatti; M Binkley; D Bisello; R E Blair; C Blocker; B Blumenfeld; A Bocci; A Bodek; V Boisvert; G Bolla; A Bolshov; D Bortoletto; J Boudreau; A Boveia; B Brau; C Bromberg; E Brubaker; J Budagov; H S Budd; S Budd; K Burkett; G Busetto; P Bussey; K L Byrum; S Cabrera; M Campanelli; M Campbell; F Canelli; A Canepa; D Carlsmith; R Carosi; S Carron; M Casarsa; A Castro; P Catastini; D Cauz; M Cavalli-Sforza; A Cerri; L Cerrito; S H Chang; J Chapman; Y C Chen; M Chertok; G Chiarelli; G Chlachidze; 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A Gibson; K Gibson; C Ginsburg; N Giokaris; K Giolo; M Giordani; P Giromini; M Giunta; G Giurgiu; V Glagolev; D Glenzinski; M Gold; N Goldschmidt; J Goldstein; G Gomez; G Gomez-Ceballos; M Goncharov; O González; I Gorelov; A T Goshaw; Y Gotra; K Goulianos; A Gresele; M Griffiths; S Grinstein; C Grosso-Pilcher; R C Group; U Grundler; J Guimaraes da Costa; Z Gunay-Unalan; C Haber; S R Hahn; K Hahn; E Halkiadakis; A Hamilton; B-Y Han; J Y Han; R Handler; F Happacher; K Hara; M Hare; S Harper; R F Harr; R M Harris; K Hatakeyama; J Hauser; C Hays; A Heijboer; B Heinemann; J Heinrich; M Herndon; D Hidas; C S Hill; D Hirschbuehl; A Hocker; A Holloway; S Hou; M Houlden; S-C Hsu; B T Huffman; R E Hughes; J Huston; J Incandela; G Introzzi; M Iori; Y Ishizawa; A Ivanov; B Iyutin; E James; D Jang; B Jayatilaka; D Jeans; H Jensen; E J Jeon; S Jindariani; M Jones; K K Joo; S Y Jun; T R Junk; T Kamon; J Kang; P E Karchin; Y Kato; Y Kemp; R Kephart; U Kerzel; V Khotilovich; B Kilminster; D H Kim; H S Kim; 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doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.012002

Measurement of the Bc+ meson lifetime using the decay mode Bc+ --> J/Psie+nue

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Jul 7;97(1):012002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.012002. Epub 2006 Jul 7.

Authors

A Abulencia¹, D Acosta, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, M G Albrow, D Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, J-F Arguin, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, P Azzurri, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, V E Barnes, B A Barnett, S Baroiant, V Bartsch, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, A Belloni, E Ben Haim, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, T Berry, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, R E Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, A Bolshov, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, H S Budd, S Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, K L Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carron, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, S H Chang, J Chapman, Y C Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, J P Chou, P H Chu, S H Chuang, K Chung, W H Chung, Y S Chung, M Ciljak, C I Ciobanu, M A Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, M Coca, G Compostella, M E Convery, J Conway, B Cooper, K Copic, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, F Cresciolo, A Cruz, C Cuenca Almenar, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Cyr, S DaRonco, S D'Auria, M D'Onofrio, D Dagenhart, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, G De Lentdecker, M Dell'Orso, F Delli Paoli, S Demers, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, D De Pedis, P F Derwent, T Devlin, C Dionisi, J R Dittmann, P DiTuro, C Dörr, S Donati, M Donega, P Dong, J Donini, T Dorigo, S Dube, K Ebina, J Efron, J Ehlers, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, H C Fang, S Farrington, I Fedorko, W T Fedorko, R G Feild, M Feindt, J P Fernandez, R Field, G Flanagan, L R Flores-Castillo, A Foland, S Forrester, G W Foster, M Franklin, J C Freeman, I Furic, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, J E Garcia, M Garcia Sciveres, A F Garfinkel, C Gay, H Gerberich, D Gerdes, S Giagu, P Giannetti, A Gibson, K Gibson, C Ginsburg, N Giokaris, K Giolo, M Giordani, P Giromini, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, J Goldstein, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, A T Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, A Gresele, M Griffiths, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, R C Group, U Grundler, J Guimaraes da Costa, Z Gunay-Unalan, C Haber, S R Hahn, K Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamilton, B-Y Han, J Y Han, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, S Harper, R F Harr, R M Harris, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, C Hays, A Heijboer, B Heinemann, J Heinrich, M Herndon, D Hidas, C S Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, A Holloway, S Hou, M Houlden, S-C Hsu, B T Huffman, R E Hughes, J Huston, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, Y Ishizawa, A Ivanov, B Iyutin, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, D Jeans, H Jensen, E J Jeon, S Jindariani, M Jones, K K Joo, S Y Jun, T R Junk, T Kamon, J Kang, P E Karchin, Y Kato, Y Kemp, R Kephart, U Kerzel, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, D H Kim, H S Kim, J E Kim, M J Kim, S B Kim, S H Kim, Y K Kim, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, M Klute, B Knuteson, B R Ko, H Kobayashi, K Kondo, D J Kong, J Konigsberg, A Korytov, A V Kotwal, A Kovalev, A Kraan, J Kraus, I Kravchenko, M Kreps, J Kroll, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, S E Kuhlmann, Y Kusakabe, S Kwang, A T Laasanen, S Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, R L Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, T LeCompte, J Lee, J Lee, Y J Lee, S W Lee, R Lefèvre, N Leonardo, S Leone, S Levy, J D Lewis, C Lin, C S Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, T M Liss, A Lister, D O Litvintsev, T Liu, N S Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, P Loverre, R-S Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, E Lytken, P Mack, D MacQueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, T Maki, P Maksimovic, S Malde, G Manca, F Margaroli, R Marginean, C Marino, A Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, T Maruyama, H Matsunaga, M E Mattson, R Mazini, P Mazzanti, K S McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, S Menzemer, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Messina, M von der Mey, T Miao, N Miladinovic, J Miles, R Miller, J S Miller, C Mills, M Milnik, R Miquel, A Mitra, G Mitselmakher, A Miyamoto, N Moggi, B Mohr, R Moore, M Morello, P Movilla Fernandez, J Mülmenstädt, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, R Mumford, P Murat, J Nachtman, J Naganoma, S Nahn, I Nakano, A Napier, D Naumov, V Necula, C Neu, M S Neubauer, J Nielsen, T Nigmanov, L Nodulman, O Norniella, E Nurse, T Ogawa, S H Oh, Y D Oh, T Okusawa, R Oldeman, R Orava, K Osterberg, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, A A Paramonov, B Parks, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, D E Pellett, A Penzo, T J Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, L Pinera, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, X Portell, O Poukhov, N Pounder, F Prakoshyn, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Pursley, J Rademacker, A Rahaman, A Rakitin, S Rappoccio, F Ratnikov, B Reisert, V Rekovic, N van Remortel, P Renton, M Rescigno, S Richter, F Rimondi, L Ristori, W J Robertson, A Robson, T Rodrigo, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, M Rossi, R Rossin, C Rott, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, H Saarikko, S Sabik, A Safonov, W K Sakumoto, G Salamanna, O Saltó, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, L Santi, S Sarkar, L Sartori, K Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, T Scheidle, P Schlabach, E E Schmidt, M P Schmidt, M Schmitt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, A L Scott, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, L Sexton-Kennedy, I Sfiligoi, M D Shapiro, T Shears, P F Shepard, D Sherman, M Shimojima, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, A Sidoti, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, J Sjolin, A Skiba, A J Slaughter, K Sliwa, J R Smith, F D Snider, R Snihur, M Soderberg, A Soha, S Somalwar, V Sorin, J Spalding, M Spezziga, F Spinella, T Spreitzer, P Squillacioti, M Stanitzki, A Staveris-Polykalas, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, D Stuart, J S Suh, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, H Sun, T Suzuki, A Taffard, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, K Takikawa, M Tanaka, R Tanaka, N Tanimoto, M Tecchio, P K Teng, K Terashi, S Tether, J Thom, A S Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, V Tiwari, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, M Tönnesmann, S Torre, D Torretta, S Tourneur, W Trischuk, R Tsuchiya, S Tsuno, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, S Uozumi, D Usynin, A Vaiciulis, S Vallecorsa, A Varganov, E Vataga, G Velev, G Veramendi, V Veszpremi, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, T Vine, I Vollrath, I Volobouev, G Volpi, F Würthwein, P Wagner, R G Wagner, R L Wagner, W Wagner, R Wallny, T Walter, Z Wan, S M Wang, A Warburton, S Waschke, D Waters, W C Wester 3rd, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, A B Wicklund, E Wicklund, G Williams, H H Williams, P Wilson, B L Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, S M Wynne, A Yagil, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, T Yamashita, C Yang, U K Yang, Y C Yang, W M Yao, G P Yeh, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, G B Yu, I Yu, S S Yu, J C Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, I Zaw, F Zetti, X Zhang, J Zhou, S Zucchelli; CDF Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.

PMID: 16907366
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.012002

Abstract

We present a measurement of the Bc+ meson lifetime in the decay mode Bc+ --> J/Psie+nue using the Collider Detector at Fermilab II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. From a sample of about of 360 pb(-1) of pp collisions at square root of s = 1.96 TeV, we reconstruct J/Psie+ pairs with invariant mass in the kinematically allowed range 4< M(J/Psie) < 6 GeV/c2. A fit to the decay-length distribution of 238 signal events yields a measured Bc+ meson lifetime of 0.463(-0.065)(+0.073)(stat) +/- 0.036(syst) ps.