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Carrier Lifetime Measurements in Semiconductors through the Microwave Photoconductivity Decay Method
Published on: April 18, 2019
Measurement of b hadron lifetimes in pp collisions at
A M Sirunyan1, A Tumasyan1, W Adam2
1Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia.
Abstract:
Measurements are presented of the lifetimes of the , , , and hadrons using the decay channels , , , , , and . The data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 , was collected by the CMS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at . The lifetime is measured to be in and in , which results in a combined measurement of . The effective lifetime of the meson is measured in two decay modes, with contributions from different amounts of the heavy and light eigenstates. This results in two different measured lifetimes: and . The lifetime is found to be . The precision from each of these channels is as good as or better than previous measurements. The lifetime, measured with respect to the to reduce the systematic uncertainty, is . All results are in agreement with current world-average values.
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