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/ψK+ and B0 → J/ψK∗0 using 3:0fb.-1 of data collected by the LHCb experiment at pp centre-of-mass energies of 7TeV and 8TeV. Its tagging power on these samples of B → J/ψX decays is (0:30±0:01±0:01)%.

Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Affolder, A., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., et al. (2015). B flavour tagging using charm decays at the LHCb experiment. JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, 10(10), P10005-P10005 [10.1088/1748-0221/10/10/P10005].

B flavour tagging using charm decays at the LHCb experiment

Belloli, N;Borsato, M;Calvi, M;Carniti, P;Cassina, L;Gotti, C;Grillo, L;Khanji, B;Martinelli, M;Petruzzo, M;
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/ψK+ and B0 → J/ψK∗0 using 3:0fb.-1 of data collected by the LHCb experiment at pp centre-of-mass energies of 7TeV and 8TeV. Its tagging power on these samples of B → J/ψX decays is (0:30±0:01±0:01)%.
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Analysis and statistical methods; Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors;
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Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Affolder, A., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., et al. (2015). B flavour tagging using charm decays at the LHCb experiment. JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, 10(10), P10005-P10005 [10.1088/1748-0221/10/10/P10005].
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