[SLAC] [SLAC Pubs and Reports] SLAC-PUB-7170Measurement of Rb at SLD Abstract We report a new measurement of $R_b = \Gamma_{Z^0 \to b\bar b}/ \Gamma_{Z^0 \to hadrons}$ using a double tag technique where the $b$ selection is based on topological reconstruction of the mass of the $B$-decay vertex. The measurement was performed using a sample of 150k hadronic $Z^0$ events collected with the SLD at the SLAC Linear Collider during the years 1993-1995. The method utilizes the 3-D vertexing abilities of the SLD CCD pixel vertex detector and the small stable SLC beams to obtain a high $b$ tagging efficiency of 37% for a purity of 97.2%. The high purity reduces the systematics introduced by charm contamination and correlations with $R_c$. We obtain a result of $R_b$ = 0.2176$\pm 0.0033_{stat.}\pm 0.0017_{syst.}\pm 0.0008_{R_c}$. (Equations render on Windows, Mac OS, AIX, Linux, Solaris, and IRIX with the techexplorer plug-in.) Full Text PDF slac-pub-7170 (156 KB) Compressed PostScript slac-pub-7170 (67.2 KB) Alternate download methods: old, ancient* *download methods - technical info techexplorer slac-pub-7170 (6.38 KB) More Information Full bibliographic data for this document, including its complete author list, is (or soon will be) available from SLAC's SPIRES-HEP Database. Please report problems with this file to posting@slac.stanford.edu. The SLAC preprint inventory is provided by the SLAC Technical Publications Department. Page generated 30 Apr 2001 @ 10:13 PDT by htmlme.pl
We report a new measurement of $R_b = \Gamma_{Z^0 \to b\bar b}/ \Gamma_{Z^0 \to hadrons}$ using a double tag technique where the $b$ selection is based on topological reconstruction of the mass of the $B$-decay vertex. The measurement was performed using a sample of 150k hadronic $Z^0$ events collected with the SLD at the SLAC Linear Collider during the years 1993-1995. The method utilizes the 3-D vertexing abilities of the SLD CCD pixel vertex detector and the small stable SLC beams to obtain a high $b$ tagging efficiency of 37% for a purity of 97.2%. The high purity reduces the systematics introduced by charm contamination and correlations with $R_c$. We obtain a result of $R_b$ = 0.2176$\pm 0.0033_{stat.}\pm 0.0017_{syst.}\pm 0.0008_{R_c}$. (Equations render on Windows, Mac OS, AIX, Linux, Solaris, and IRIX with the techexplorer plug-in.)
(Equations render on Windows, Mac OS, AIX, Linux, Solaris, and IRIX with the techexplorer plug-in.)
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