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The European Physical Journal C

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Abstract Volume 5 Issue 2 (1998) pp 205-227
DOI 10.1007/s100529800975

A measurement of the semileptonic branching ratio ${\rm BR}({\mbox{b-baryon}} \rightarrow{\rm p} l \bar{\nu} X)$ and a study of inclusive $\pi^{\pm}$, $\rm{K}^{\pm}$, ($\rm{p,\bar{p}}$) production in Z decays

The ALEPH Collaboration , R. Barate et al.

Laboratoire de Physique des Particules (LAPP), IN2P3-CNRS, F-74019 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex, France

Received 1 December 1997 / Published online: 4 August 1998

Abstract. Inclusive $\pi^{\pm}$, $\rm{K}^{\pm}$ and ($\rm{p,\bar{p}}$) production is investigated using data recorded by the aleph detector between 1992 and 1994. The momentum spectra and multiplicities are measured separately in $\rm{Z}\rightarrow \rm{b\bar{b}}$, $\rm{Z}\rightarrow \rm{c\bar c}$ and $\rm{Z}\rightarrow \rm{u\baru,d\bar{d},s\bar{s}}$ decays. The number of protons found in b-hadron decays is used to estimate the fraction of b-baryons in b events to be $(10.2\pm 0.7\pm 2.7)\%$ assuming BR(b-baryon$\rightarrow \rm{p}X)=(58\pm 6)\%$. From an additional study of proton-lepton correlations in b events, the branching ratio ${\rm BR}({\mbox{b-baryon}}\rightarrow{\rm p} l\bar{\nu}X) =(4.63\pm 0.72 \pm 0.98)\% $ is obtained. The ratio ${\rm BR}({\mbox{b-baryon}} \rightarrow{\rm p} l \bar{\nu} X)/ {\mbox{BR(b-baryon}}\rightarrow{\rm p} X)$ is found to be $0.080\pm 0.012 \pm 0.014$.

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