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Charm counting in b decays. / ALEPH Collaboration.
In: Physics Letters B, Vol. 388, No. 3, 1996, p. 648-658.

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ALEPH Collaboration 1996, 'Charm counting in b decays', Physics Letters B, vol. 388, no. 3, pp. 648-658. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(96)01318-4

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ALEPH Collaboration (1996). Charm counting in b decays. Physics Letters B, 388(3), 648-658. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(96)01318-4

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ALEPH Collaboration. Charm counting in b decays. Physics Letters B. 1996;388(3):648-658. doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(96)01318-4

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ALEPH Collaboration. / Charm counting in b decays. In: Physics Letters B. 1996 ; Vol. 388, No. 3. pp. 648-658.

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title = "Charm counting in b decays",
abstract = "The inclusive production of charmed particles in decays has been measured from the yield of D0, D+, Ds+ and Λc+ decays in a sample of events with high b purity collected with the ALEPH detector from 1992 to 1995.From these measurements, adding the charmonia production rate and an estimate of the charmed strange baryon contribution, the average number of charm quarks per b decay is determined to be nc = 1.230 ± 0.036 ± 0.038 ± 0.053, where the uncertainties are due to statistics, systematic effects and branching ratios, respectively.",
author = "D. Buskulic and Alexander Finch and {ALEPH Collaboration}",
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AU - Finch, Alexander

AU - ALEPH Collaboration

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N2 - The inclusive production of charmed particles in decays has been measured from the yield of D0, D+, Ds+ and Λc+ decays in a sample of events with high b purity collected with the ALEPH detector from 1992 to 1995.From these measurements, adding the charmonia production rate and an estimate of the charmed strange baryon contribution, the average number of charm quarks per b decay is determined to be nc = 1.230 ± 0.036 ± 0.038 ± 0.053, where the uncertainties are due to statistics, systematic effects and branching ratios, respectively.

AB - The inclusive production of charmed particles in decays has been measured from the yield of D0, D+, Ds+ and Λc+ decays in a sample of events with high b purity collected with the ALEPH detector from 1992 to 1995.From these measurements, adding the charmonia production rate and an estimate of the charmed strange baryon contribution, the average number of charm quarks per b decay is determined to be nc = 1.230 ± 0.036 ± 0.038 ± 0.053, where the uncertainties are due to statistics, systematic effects and branching ratios, respectively.

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DO - 10.1016/S0370-2693(96)01318-4

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SP - 648

EP - 658

JO - Physics Letters B

JF - Physics Letters B

SN - 0370-2693

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