Heavy flavour physics: lifetimes
•
First measurements
which CDF will
perform in b sector
•
Necessary step
towards oscillation
•
Best measurement of
B
s
0
,
L
b
.
(Unique)
•
HQET:
t
(B
+
)/
t
(B
0
)=1.05
t
( B
s
0
)/
t
(B
0
)=1.00
t
(
L
b
)/
t
(B
0
)=0.9 to 1.0
Experiment:
t
(
L
b
)/
t
(B
0
) is 0.78+-.04
2 fb
-1
:
3000 B
s
=>
s
(c
t(
B
s
)) ~ 0.03 ps
2000
L
B
=>
s
(c
t(L
B
)) ~ 0.04 ps
world average lifetime Bs to 62 MeV
worldaverage lifetime lambda b to 80 MeV