PT Journal
AU LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, Rea
   Garcia Martin, LM
   Martinez-Vidal, F
   Oyanguren, A
   Remon Alepuz, C
   Ruiz Valls, P
   Sanchez Mayordomo, C
TI New algorithms for identifying the flavour of B-0 mesons using pions and protons
SO European Physical Journal C
JI Eur. Phys. J. C
PY 2017
BP 238 - 15pp
VL 77
IS 4
DI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4731-y
LA English
AB Two new algorithms for use in the analysis of pp collision are developed to identify the flavour of B mesons at production using pions and protons from the hadronization process. The algorithms are optimized and calibrated on data, using B-0 -> D- pi(+) decays from pp collision data collected by LIICh at centre -of -mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The tagging power of the new pion algorithm is 60% greater than the previously available one; the algorithm using protons to identify the flavour of a B-0 meson is the first of its kind.
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