B flavour tagging using charm decays at the LHCb experiment

An algorithm is described for tagging the flavour content at production of neutral B mesons in the LHCb experiment. The algorithm exploits the correlation of the flavour of a B meson with the charge of a reconstructed secondary charm hadron from the decay of the other b hadron produced in the proton...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Badalov, Alexey, Calvo Gomez, Miriam, Vilasis-Cardona, Xavier, LHCb Collaboration - CERN
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Ramon Llull (URL)
Repositorio:DAU Arxiu Digital de la Universitat Ramon Llull
OAI Identifier:oai:dau.url.edu:20.500.14342/3351
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/3351
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/10/10/P10005
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Gran col·lisionador d'hadrons (França i Suïssa)
Interaccions d'hadrons
Col·lisions (Física nuclear)
Partícules (Física nuclear)
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Sumario:An algorithm is described for tagging the flavour content at production of neutral B mesons in the LHCb experiment. The algorithm exploits the correlation of the flavour of a B meson with the charge of a reconstructed secondary charm hadron from the decay of the other b hadron produced in the proton-proton collision. Charm hadron candidates are identified in a number of fully or partially reconstructed Cabibbo-favoured decay modes. The algorithm is calibrated on the self-tagged decay modes B + → J/ψK + and B 0 → J/ψK ∗0 using 3.0 fb−1 of data collected by the LHCb experiment at pp centre-of-mass energies of 7TeV and 8TeV. Its tagging power on these samples of B → J/ψX decays is (0.30±0.01±0.01)%.