Measurement of the B(0) lifetime with partially reconstructed B(0)-->D(-)l(+)nu(l) decays

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Jul 1;89(1):011802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.011802. Epub 2002 Jun 13.

Abstract

The B(0) lifetime was measured with a sample of 23 million BB pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e(+)e(-) storage ring during 1999 and 2000. Events from the semileptonic decay B(0)-->D(*-)l(+)nu(l) have been selected with a partial reconstruction method in which only the charged lepton and the slow pi from the D*--->D(0)pi(-) decay are reconstructed. The result is tau(B(0)) = 1.529+/-0.012(stat)+/-0.029(syst) ps.