A Preliminary Improved Measurement of the B Hadron Energy Distribution in Z° Decays
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 35
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors have measured the B hadron energy distribution in Z° decays using a new technique applied to a sample of inclusive B decays recorded in the SLD experiment at SLAC between 1996 and 1997. The upgraded CCD vertex detector is used to reconstruct B-decay vertices with high efficiency and purity, and to provide precise measurements of the kinematic quantities used in this technique. For each reconstructed B-decay vertex, the part of the B energy missing from the vertex is derived from the kinematic quantities. B vertices with low missing mass are selected to provide a very high purity sample and to obtain good energy resolution. The authors compare the scaled B hadron energy distribution with the predictions of several QCD and phenomenological models of heavy quark fragmentation. The average scaled energy x{sub B} is measured to be 0.719"0.005 (stat.)"0.001 (unfolding) (preliminary).