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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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2015 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universitat Ramon Llull (URL) |
| Repository: | DAU Arxiu Digital de la Universitat Ramon Llull |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dau.url.edu:20.500.14342/3351 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/3351 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/10/10/P10005 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Gran col·lisionador d'hadrons (França i Suïssa) Interaccions d'hadrons Col·lisions (Física nuclear) Partícules (Física nuclear) 539 |
| Summary: | 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)%. |
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