O. Adriani et al., MEASUREMENT OF GAMMA-B(B)OVER-BAR GAMMA(HAD) FROM HADRONIC DECAYS OF THE Z/, Physics letters. Section B, 307(1-2), 1993, pp. 237-246
We report a measurement of R(b) = GAMMA(bbBAR)GAMMA(had) from Z --> qq
BAR events at LEP. Z --> bbBAR events are identified using a multidime
nsional analysis based on a neural network approach. We obtain 60% sam
ple purity with an efficiency of 35%. Our measured value of R(b) is 0.
222 +/- 0.003 +/- 0.007.