Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
10-1-2001
Abstract
We measure the relative rate of production of orbitally excited (L=1) states of B mesons (B**) by observing their decays into B π ±. We reconstruct B mesons through semileptonic decay channels using data collected in pp̅ collisions at √s =1.8 TeV. The fraction of light B mesons that are produced as L=1B** states is measured to be 0.28±0.06(stat) ±0.03(syst). We also measure the collective mass of the B** states, and quantify the result by quoting the (model-dependent) mass of the lowest B** state to be m (B1)=5.71 ±0.02 GeV/c2.
Comments
Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. D 64, 072002 (2001). http://prd.aps.org. Copyright © 2001 American Physical Society. Permission to use.