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A Study of D*+- production in Z0 decays

The OPAL collaboration Alexander, G. ; Allison, J. ; Allport, P.P. ; et al.
Phys.Lett.B 262 (1991) 341-350, 1991.
Inspire Record 315060 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.9272

In this paper an investigation of the production of D ∗ ± mesons produced in e + e − collisions at energies around the Z 0 pole is presented. Based on 115 D ∗ ± mesons with x D∗  2E D ∗ /E cm > 0.2 the properties of D ∗ mesons produced in the reaction Z 0 → c c are studied. Fixing the yield and the fragmentation function of bottom quarks to the values obtained at LEP using lepton tags, and average energy fraction of the D ∗ ± mesons from primary charmed quarks of 〈x c → D ∗ 〉 = 0.52 ± 0.03 +- 0.01 is found and Γ z 0 →c c = (323 ± 61 ± 35) MeV is determined. The first error is the combined statistical and systematic error from this experiment, and the second the total error from other sources.

2 data tables
Table 1

FD denotes the fraction of D* mesons from primary charmed quarks, derived from the fit (see text).

Table 2

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