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Heavy quarkonium production in Z decays

Abstract

We report measurements of the inclusive production of heavy quarkonium states in Z decays based on the analysis of 3.6 million hadronic events collected by the L3 detector at LEP. The measurement of inclusive J production and an improved 95% confidence level upper limit on ϒ production are presented. In addition, two independent measurements of the ratio, fp, of prompt J mesons to those from B decay are made using two different isolation cuts to separate prompt J mesons from J mesons produced in the decays of b hadrons. The results are: Br(Z→J+X)=(3.21±0.21(stat.)+0.19−0.28(sys.))×10−3, Br(Z→ϒ(1S)+X)<4.4×10−5, fp=(7.1±2.1(stat.)±1.2(sys.)+1.5−0.8(theo.))×10−2 .

Authors

Collaboration L; Acciarri M; Achard P; Adriani O; Aguilar-Benitez M; Alcaraz J; Alemanni G; Allaby J; Aloisio A; Alviggi MG

Journal

Physics Letters B, Vol. 453, No. 1-2, pp. 94–106

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

January 1, 1999

DOI

10.1016/s0370-2693(99)00280-4

ISSN

0370-2693
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