Determination of the b Quark Mass at the Z Mass Scale

In hadronic decays of Z bosons recorded with the OPAL detector at LEP, events containing b quarks were selected using the long lifetime of b flavoured hadrons. Comparing the 3-jet rate in b events with that in d u,s and c quark events, a significant difference was observed. Using Order(alpha_s squar...

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Autores principales: Abbiendi, G., Ainsley, C., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anagnostou, G., Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Batley, R.J., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Bethke, S., Biebel, O., Bloodworth, I.J., Boeriu, O., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Cammin, J., Carnegie, R.K., Caron, B., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Couchman, J., Csilling, A., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., De Roeck, A., De Wolf, E.A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fleck, I., Ford, M., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Gunther, P.O., Gupta, A., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Harder, K., Harel, A., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Hensel, C., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hill, J.C., Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Ishii, K., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klein, K., Klier, A., Kluth, S., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kramer, T., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Krop, D., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Leins, A., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Menges, W., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Moed, S., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Oh, A., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pahl, C., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Pooth, O., Quadt, A., Rabbertz, K., Rembser, C., Renkel, P., Rick, H., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sarkisian, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Spano, F., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Stumpf, L., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Tarem, S., Tasevsky, M., Taylor, R.J., Teuscher, R., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Toya, D., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Ujvari, B., Vachon, B., Vollmer, C.F., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Vossebeld, J., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2001
Materias:
Particle Physics - Experiment
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s100520100746
http://cds.cern.ch/record/517765
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Sumario:In hadronic decays of Z bosons recorded with the OPAL detector at LEP, events containing b quarks were selected using the long lifetime of b flavoured hadrons. Comparing the 3-jet rate in b events with that in d u,s and c quark events, a significant difference was observed. Using Order(alpha_s squared) calculations for massive quarks, this difference was used to determine the b quark mass in the MSbar renormalisation scheme at the scale of the Z boson mass. By combining the results from seven different jet finders the running b quark mass was determined to be mb(MZ) = (2.67 +/- 0.03(stat) +0.29/-0.37(syst) +/- 0.19(theo.)) GeV. Evolving this value to the b quark mass scale itself yields mb(mb) = (3.95 +0.52/-0.62) GeV, consistent with results obtained at the b quark production threshold. This determination confirms the QCD expectation of a scale dependent quark mass. A constant mass is ruled out by 3.9 standard deviations.

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