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Title

A Measurement of the Semileptonic Branching Fraction of the B_s Meson

Authors/Contributors

Duncan Brown, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
J. P. Lees, Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules

Document Type

Article

Date

10-25-2011

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

We report a measurement of the inclusive semileptonic branching fraction of the B_s meson using data collected with the BaBar detector in the center-of-mass (CM) energy region above the Upsilon(4S) resonance. We use the inclusive yield of phi mesons and the phi yield in association with a high-momentum lepton to perform a simultaneous measurement of the semileptonic branching fraction and the production rate of B_s mesons relative to all B mesons as a function of CM energy. The inclusive semileptonic branching fraction of the B_s meson is determined to be B(B_s to l nu X)=9.5 (+2.5/-2.0)(stat)(+1.1/-1.9)(syst)%, where l indicates the average of e and mu.

Additional Information

8 pages, 7 eps figures. To be submitted to PRD-RC More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5600

First author and Syracuse University authors listed, for additional authors see the article.

Repository Citation

Brown, Duncan and Lees, J. P., "A Measurement of the Semileptonic Branching Fraction of the B_s Meson" (2011). Physics. Paper 244.
http://surface.syr.edu/phy/244

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

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