Inclusive search for b {yields} sg
SLD Collaboration · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2017
The authors describe an inclusive search for flavor changing neutral current decays of the type b {yields} s gluon in the SLD experiment. Models of b {yields} sg indicate that the production of high momentum kaons is enhanced over background from standard B decays. If the branching ratio for b {yields} sg is {approx} 10%, then such an enhancement should have a good signal to background ratio. The analysis makes use of the particle identification and high precision vertexing capabilities of SLD to search for such an enhancement. The data sample consists of 300K hadronic Z{sup 0} decays collected between 1993 and 1997.