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Author(s): |
The SLD Collaboration |
Presenting author:
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Tracy Usher |
Corresponding author's
e-mail: |
usher@slac.stanford.edu |
Title of the
presentation: |
Measurement of Rb and Rc at
SLD |
Link to the full
paper: |
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Session of 1st preference: |
5-Test of the Standard
Model |
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Abstract |
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We present a
measurement of the hadronic branching fractions of the
Z0 boson into bb-bar (Rb) and cc-bar (Rc) using a
multitag method. This is a final measurement based on
our complete 93-98 dataset of 550 000 hadronic Z0
decays. It used the 300 Mpixel high resolution CCD
vertex detector of SLD and the small and stable SLC beam
spot to achieve b tagging efficiencies and purities of
62% and 98% respectively. The combined statistical and
systematic error on Rb is +-0.0012. Charm tagging
efficiency and purity are 18% and 84% respectively for
the main tag. The combined statistical and systematic
error on Rc is +-0.0040, which makes it the most precise
measurement in the world. |
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