An algorithm is described for tagging the flavour content at production of neutral B mesons in the LHCb experiment. The algorithm exploits the correlation of the flavour of a B meson with the charge of a reconstructed secondary charm hadron from the decay of the other b hadron produced in the proton-proton collision. Charm hadron candidates are identified in a number of fully or partially reconstructed Cabibbo-favoured decay modes. The algorithm is calibrated on the self-tagged decay modes B+ → J/ψ K+ and B0 → J/ψ K*0 using 3.0 fb−1 of data collected by the LHCb experiment at pp centre-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV. Its tagging power on these samples of B → J/ψ X decays is (0.30 ± 0.01 ± 0.01)%.

B flavour tagging using charm decays at the LHCb experiment / Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Affolder, A., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Albrecht, J., Alessio, F., Alexander, M., Ali, S., Alkhazov, G., Alvarez Cartelle, P., Alves, A.A., Amato, S., Amerio, S., Amhis, Y., An, L., Anderlini, L., Anderson, J., Andreassi, G., et al.. - In: JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION. - ISSN 1748-0221. - 10:10(2015). [10.1088/1748-0221/10/10/P10005]

B flavour tagging using charm decays at the LHCb experiment

Capriotti, L.;Casse, G.;Sarti, A.;Sciubba, A.;
2015

Abstract

An algorithm is described for tagging the flavour content at production of neutral B mesons in the LHCb experiment. The algorithm exploits the correlation of the flavour of a B meson with the charge of a reconstructed secondary charm hadron from the decay of the other b hadron produced in the proton-proton collision. Charm hadron candidates are identified in a number of fully or partially reconstructed Cabibbo-favoured decay modes. The algorithm is calibrated on the self-tagged decay modes B+ → J/ψ K+ and B0 → J/ψ K*0 using 3.0 fb−1 of data collected by the LHCb experiment at pp centre-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV. Its tagging power on these samples of B → J/ψ X decays is (0.30 ± 0.01 ± 0.01)%.
2015
Bottom mesons, Charmed mesons,Flavour changing neutral currents,
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B flavour tagging using charm decays at the LHCb experiment / Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Affolder, A., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Albrecht, J., Alessio, F., Alexander, M., Ali, S., Alkhazov, G., Alvarez Cartelle, P., Alves, A.A., Amato, S., Amerio, S., Amhis, Y., An, L., Anderlini, L., Anderson, J., Andreassi, G., et al.. - In: JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION. - ISSN 1748-0221. - 10:10(2015). [10.1088/1748-0221/10/10/P10005]
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