Upper limit on the lifetime difference of short- and long-lived B0 s mesons

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 438, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 417-429

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^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^g INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^h HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^j TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^k BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

ⁿ WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^o MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^p INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^q CERN   (Switzerland)

^r WORLD LABORATORY   (Switzerland)

^s UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^t UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^u HELSINKI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Finland)

^v UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^w UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^x LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^z CIEMAT   (Spain)

^aa INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^ab INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^ac INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^ae RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^af CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^ah CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ai PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aj SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^ak PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^al UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^am UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^an UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^ao BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^ap Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^aq UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^ar UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^as PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^at PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^au DESY   (Germany)

^av ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^aw UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^ax NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01114-9     Document Type: Article

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