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TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of the b hadron lifetime with the dipole method
AU - Buskulic, D.
AU - Finch, Alexander
AU - ALEPH Collaboration
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - A measurement of the average lifetime of b hadrons has been performed with dipole method on a sample of 260 000 hadronic Z decays recorded with the ALEPH detector during 1991. The dipole is the distance between the vertices built in the opposite hemispheres. The mean dipole is extracted from all the events without attempting b enrichment. Comparing the average of the data dipole distribution with a Monte Carlo calibration curve obtained with different b lifetimes, an average b hadron lifetime of 1.51±0.08 ps is extracted.
AB - A measurement of the average lifetime of b hadrons has been performed with dipole method on a sample of 260 000 hadronic Z decays recorded with the ALEPH detector during 1991. The dipole is the distance between the vertices built in the opposite hemispheres. The mean dipole is extracted from all the events without attempting b enrichment. Comparing the average of the data dipole distribution with a Monte Carlo calibration curve obtained with different b lifetimes, an average b hadron lifetime of 1.51±0.08 ps is extracted.
U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(93)91265-O
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(93)91265-O
M3 - Journal article
VL - 314
SP - 459
EP - 470
JO - Physics Letters B
JF - Physics Letters B
SN - 0370-2693
IS - 3-4
ER -