Measurement of the effective B-s(0) -> K+ K- lifetime

LHCb collaboration; Harry V Cliff

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.033

Measurement of the effective B-s(0) -> K+ K- lifetime

LHCb collaboration, Harry V Cliff^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A precise determination of the effective B-s(0) -> K+ K- lifetime can be used to constrain contributions from physics beyond the Standard Model in the B-s(0) meson system. Conventional approaches select B meson decay products that are significantly displaced from the B meson production vertex. As a consequence, B mesons with low decay times are suppressed, introducing a bias to the decay time spectrum which must be corrected. This analysis uses a technique that explicitly avoids a lifetime bias by using a neural network based trigger and event selection. Using 1.0 fb(-1) of data recorded by the LHCb experiment, the effective B-s(0) -> K+ K- lifetime is measured as 1.455 +/- 0.046 (stat.) +/- 0.006 (syst.) ps. (c) 2012 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	393-400
Number of pages	8
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	716
Issue number	3-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.033
Publication status	Published - 2 Oct 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Flavour physics
Lifetime
B physics
DECAY
TOOL

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AU - Adrover, C.

AU - Affolder, A.

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AU - Bachmann, S.

AU - Back, J.J.

AU - Balagura, V.

AU - Baldini, W.

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AU - Bates, A.

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