A search for direct and radiative decays of the neutral B meson to invisible final states using a hadronic tagging method at the BABAR detector

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dc.contributor.authorBlount, Nicholas L., 1979-
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-18T21:07:24Z
dc.date.available2009-05-18T21:07:24Z
dc.date.issued2008-12
dc.descriptionxii, 118 p. : ill. (some col.) A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation describes a search for the decays B 0 [arrow right] invisible and B 0 [arrow right] invisible+γ, where invisible refers to a final state consisting of long lived particles with a low cross-section for interaction with matter, leading to a low probability of detection in typical particle detectors. While the branching fractions for these decays predicted by the Standard Model are far below what could be feasably measured by current experiments, new physics such as right-handed neutrinos propagating in large extra space-time dimensions or light R-parity violating neutralinos in supersymmetry could greatly enhance the branching fractions. The decays are searched for in data corresponding to 423.5 fb -1 integrated luminosity produced at the Υ(4 S ) resonance collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B factory, corresponding to 2.30 × 10 8 B 0 B¯ 0 pairs. Using those events that contain a hadronically reconstructed neutral B meson, evidence for the signal decays is sought in the remainder of the event. In (5.00 ± 0.02) × 10 5 events with a fully reconstructed neutral B meson, a total of 39 events consistent with the B 0 [arrow right] invisible decay mode are seen in data with an expected background of 28.5 ± 7.8(stat.)±9.2(syst.) events, and 8 events consistent with the B 0 [arrow right] invisible+γ decay mode are seen in data mode with an expected background of 14.1 ± 5.5(stat.)±8.1(syst.) events, from which upper limits of [Special characters omitted.] ( B 0 [arrow right] invisible) < 11.7 × 10 -5 and of [Special characters omitted.] ( B 0 [arrow right] invisible+γ) < 4.3 × 10 -5 at the 90% confidence level are obtained.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAdviser: David Stromen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/9171
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUniversity of Oregon theses, Dept. of Physics, Ph. D., 2008;
dc.subjectRadiative decaysen_US
dc.subjectInvisible final statesen_US
dc.subjectHadronic taggingen_US
dc.subjectB mesonsen_US
dc.subjectNeutrinosen_US
dc.subjectParticle physicsen_US
dc.titleA search for direct and radiative decays of the neutral B meson to invisible final states using a hadronic tagging method at the BABAR detectoren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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