Exclusive Reconstruction of B-Decays with Missing Neutrals

Often decay channels that are of theoretical interest cannot be reconstructed exclusively due to missing neutrals (such as neutrinos), or due to single-track vertices. This situation appears both in underground astrophysics experiments as well as in conventional accelerator experiments. A method to...

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Main Author: M. Dima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-01-01
Series:Advances in High Energy Physics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/123083
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Summary:Often decay channels that are of theoretical interest cannot be reconstructed exclusively due to missing neutrals (such as neutrinos), or due to single-track vertices. This situation appears both in underground astrophysics experiments as well as in conventional accelerator experiments. A method to “recover” such missing particles from their kinematics and reconstruct “exclusively” the modes would benefit both domains in a number of ways. The main idea is to combine 4-momentum conservations in vertices with available geometric information in the event. The paper gives details of such methods on the Bs0→Ds−K+, Ds−→K+K−π−(π0) prototype decay, which also encounters 2-fold ambiguities in its solutions. Such ambiguities can be lifted and the paper shows how, while also addressing the potential the method has in physics analyses and detector studies.
ISSN:1687-7357
1687-7365