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Study of the fragmentation of b quarks into B mesons at the Z peak. / ALEPH Collaboration, The; Heister, A.; Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina et al.
In: Physics Letters B, Vol. 512, No. 1-2, 12.07.2001, p. 30-48.

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ALEPH Collaboration T, Heister A, Bouhova-Thacker E, Bowdery C, Finch A, Foster F et al. Study of the fragmentation of b quarks into B mesons at the Z peak. Physics Letters B. 2001 Jul 12;512(1-2):30-48. doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00690-6

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ALEPH Collaboration, The ; Heister, A. ; Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina et al. / Study of the fragmentation of b quarks into B mesons at the Z peak. In: Physics Letters B. 2001 ; Vol. 512, No. 1-2. pp. 30-48.

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abstract = "The fragmentation of b quarks into B mesons is studied with four million hadronic Z decays collected by the ALEPH experiment during the years 1991–1995. A semi-exclusive reconstruction of B→ℓνD(★) decays is performed, by combining lepton candidates with fully reconstructed D(★) mesons while the neutrino energy is estimated from the missing energy of the event.The mean value of xBwd, the energy of the weakly-decaying B meson normalised to the beam energy, is found to be using a model-independent method; the corresponding value for the energy of the leading B meson is . The reconstructed spectra are compared with different fragmentation models.",
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AU - Foster, Frank

AU - Hughes, Gareth

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