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Measurement of the lifetime of the B_c meson in the semileptonic decay channel

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Measurement of the lifetime of the B_c meson in the semileptonic decay channel. / Collaboration, D0; Bertram, Iain; Borissov, Guennadi et al.
In: Physical review letters, Vol. 102, No. 9, 092001, 02.03.2009.

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Collaboration, D, Bertram, I, Borissov, G, Fox, H, Williams, M, Ratoff, P, Love, P, Rakitin, A & Sopczak, A 2009, 'Measurement of the lifetime of the B_c meson in the semileptonic decay channel', Physical review letters, vol. 102, no. 9, 092001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.092001

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Collaboration, D., Bertram, I., Borissov, G., Fox, H., Williams, M., Ratoff, P., Love, P., Rakitin, A., & Sopczak, A. (2009). Measurement of the lifetime of the B_c meson in the semileptonic decay channel. Physical review letters, 102(9), Article 092001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.092001

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Collaboration D, Bertram I, Borissov G, Fox H, Williams M, Ratoff P et al. Measurement of the lifetime of the B_c meson in the semileptonic decay channel. Physical review letters. 2009 Mar 2;102(9):092001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.092001

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Collaboration, D0 ; Bertram, Iain ; Borissov, Guennadi et al. / Measurement of the lifetime of the B_c meson in the semileptonic decay channel. In: Physical review letters. 2009 ; Vol. 102, No. 9.

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title = "Measurement of the lifetime of the B_c meson in the semileptonic decay channel",
abstract = "Using approximately 1.3 fb-1 of data collected by the D0 detector between 2002 and 2006, we measure the lifetime of the B_c meson in the B_c -> J/psi mu nu X final state. A simultaneous unbinned likelihood fit to the J/\psi+mu invariant mass and lifetime distributions yields a signal of 881 +/- 80 (stat) candidates and a lifetime measurement of \tau(B_c) = 0.448 +0.038 -0.036 (stat) +/- 0.032 (syst) ps.",
author = "D0 Collaboration and Iain Bertram and Guennadi Borissov and Harald Fox and Mark Williams and Peter Ratoff and Peter Love and Alexander Rakitin and Andre Sopczak",
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AU - Collaboration, D0

AU - Bertram, Iain

AU - Borissov, Guennadi

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Williams, Mark

AU - Ratoff, Peter

AU - Love, Peter

AU - Rakitin, Alexander

AU - Sopczak, Andre

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N2 - Using approximately 1.3 fb-1 of data collected by the D0 detector between 2002 and 2006, we measure the lifetime of the B_c meson in the B_c -> J/psi mu nu X final state. A simultaneous unbinned likelihood fit to the J/\psi+mu invariant mass and lifetime distributions yields a signal of 881 +/- 80 (stat) candidates and a lifetime measurement of \tau(B_c) = 0.448 +0.038 -0.036 (stat) +/- 0.032 (syst) ps.

AB - Using approximately 1.3 fb-1 of data collected by the D0 detector between 2002 and 2006, we measure the lifetime of the B_c meson in the B_c -> J/psi mu nu X final state. A simultaneous unbinned likelihood fit to the J/\psi+mu invariant mass and lifetime distributions yields a signal of 881 +/- 80 (stat) candidates and a lifetime measurement of \tau(B_c) = 0.448 +0.038 -0.036 (stat) +/- 0.032 (syst) ps.

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DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.092001

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JO - Physical review letters

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SN - 1079-7114

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