PRODUCTION OF STRANGE B-BARYONS DECAYING INTO XI- +-L-/+ PAIRS AT LEP/

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ABREU P ADAM W ADYE T AGASI E AJINENKO I ALEKSAN R ALEKSEEV GD ALLPORT PP ALMEHED S ALMEIDA FML ALVSVAAG SJ AMALDI U AMATO S ANDREAZZA A ANDRIEUX ML ANTILOGUS P APEL WD ARNOUD Y ASMAN B AUGUSTIN JE AUGUSTINUS A BAILLON P BAMBADE P BARAO F BARATE R BARBIELLINI G BARBIN DY BAKER GJ BARONCELLI A BARRING O BARRIO JA BARTL W BATES MJ BATTAGLIA M BAUBILLIER M BAUDOT J BECKS KH BEGALLI M BEILLIERE P BELOKOPYTOV Y BELTRAN P BENVENUTI AC BERGGREN M BERTRAND D BIANCHI F BIGI M BILENKY MS BILLOIR P BJARNE J BLOCH D BLUME M BLYTH S BOCCI V BOLOGNESE T BONESINI M BONIVENTO W BOOTH PSL BORISOV G BOSIO C BOSTJANCIC B BOSWORTH S BOTNER O BOUDINOV E BOUQUET B BOURDARIOS C BOWCOCK TJV BOZZO M BRANCHINI P BRAND KD BRENNER RA BRICMAN C BRILLAULT L BROWN RCA BRUCKMAN P BRUNET JM BUGGE L BURAN T BUYS A CACCIA M CALVI M ROZAS AJC CAMPORESI T CANALE V CANEPA M CANKOCAK K CAO F CARENA F CARRILHO P CARROLL L CASO C CASSIO V GIMENEZ MVC CATTAI A CAVALLO FR CERRITO L CHABAUD V CHAPKIN M CHARPENTIER P CHAUSSARD L 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Citation
P. Abreu et al., PRODUCTION OF STRANGE B-BARYONS DECAYING INTO XI- +-L-/+ PAIRS AT LEP/, Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields, 68(4), 1995, pp. 541-553
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
Journal title
Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields → ACNP
ISSN journal
01709739
Volume
68
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
541 - 553
Database
ISI
SICI code
0170-9739(1995)68:4<541:POSBDI>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
An excess of events containing, in a jet, a same-sign Xi(-/+) - l(-/+) pair as compared to those with an opposite-sign Xi(-/+) - l(-/+) pair has been observed in an analysis of 1.7 million hadronic Z(o) decays collected by the DELPHI detector at LEP between 1991 and 1993 inclusiv e. The probability for this signal to come from non B-baryon decays is less than 5 x 10(-4). The measured production fraction corresponds to : P(b --> B - baryon) x BR(B - baryon --> Xi(-) l(-) X) = (5.9 +/- 2.1 +/- 1.0) x 10(-4), per lepton species, averaged for electrons and muo ns and assuming the two channels have an equal contribution. Semilepto nic decays of Lambda(b) baryons can account for less than 10% of these events and the major part of the signal has to originate from Xi(b) s emileptonic decays, Using the subsample of these events where the Xi(- /+) trajectory has been measured in the Vertex Detector, the lifetime of B-baryons producing a Xi(-/+) in their semileptonic decay final sta te is found to be: tau(B - baryon --> Xi(-) l(-) X) = 1.5(-0.4)(+0.7) +/- 0.3 ps.