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B Meson Lifetime Measurement

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Heavy Flavours and High-Energy Collisions in the 1–100 TeV Range

Part of the book series: Ettore Majorana International Science Series ((PHYSC,volume 44))

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The lifetime of hadrons containing b-quark has been the subject of extensive experimental work and theoretical speculation; its importance is due to implications on some of the fundamental parameters of the Standard Model, such as the top quark mass and the mixing angles.

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  1. Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell’ I.N.F.N., Frascati, Italy

    M. Piccolo

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  1. DESY, Hamburg, Germany

    A. Ali

  2. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    L. Cifarelli

  3. University of Naples, Naples, Italy

    L. Cifarelli

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Piccolo, M. (1989). B Meson Lifetime Measurement. In: Ali, A., Cifarelli, L. (eds) Heavy Flavours and High-Energy Collisions in the 1–100 TeV Range. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 44. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9981-0_4

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