Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1845266 | Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements | 2007 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
This report summarizes the flavor tagging techniques developed at the CDF and DØ experiments. Flavor tagging involves identification of the B meson flavor at production, whether its constituent is a b quark or an anti-quark. quark flavor content and hence the decay products do not identify the B flavor content at production. It is crucial for measuring the oscillation frequency of neutral B mesons, both in the B0 and system. The two experiments have developed their unique approaches to flavor tagging, using neural networks and likelihood methods to disentangle tracks from b decays from other tracks. This report discusses these techniques and the measurement of B0 mixing as a means to calibrate the taggers.
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