F. Abe et al., MEASUREMENT OF THE B- AND (B)OVER-BAR(0) MESON LIFETIMES USING SEMILEPTONIC DECAYS - ART. NO. 092002, Physical review. D. Particles and fields, 5809(9), 1998, pp. 2002
The lifetimes of the B- and (B) over bar(0) mesons an measured using t
he partially reconstructed semileptonic decays (B) over bar --> Dl(-)<
(nu)over bar>X, where D is either a D-0 or D+ meson. The data were co
llected by the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider during 1
992-1995 and correspond to about 110 pb(-1) of (p) over bar p collisio
ns at root s = 1.8 TeV. We measure decay lengths and extract the lifet
imes to be tau(B-) = 1.637 +/- 0.058(-0.043)(+0.045) ps and tau((B) ov
er bar(0)) = 1.474 +/- 0.039(-0.051)(+0.052) ps, and the ratio of the
lifetimes to be tau(B-)/tau((B) over bar(0)) = 1.110 +/- 0.056(+0.030)
(+0.033), where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second
are systematic. [S0556-2821(98)08419-7].