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Systematic errors

A summary of systematic uncertainties is reported in table 1:

Table 1: Summary table of systematic uncertainties
Systematic Error
L1 trigger (XFT) efficiency by particle species $7.0\%$
L1 trigger (XFT) efficiency due to COT aging $0.3\%$
Other time dependent efficiency $2.4\%$
Polarization of decay $7.0\%$
$\Delta \Gamma_s $ theory uncertainty $3.5\%$
$B_s \rightarrow J/\psi \phi $ yield determination $6.1\%$
Backgrounds $3.2\%$
Muon efficiency $5.8\%$
Sub-total $14.0\%$
BR( $B_s \rightarrow J/\psi \phi $) and daughter BR $36\%$
Total $39\%$


We notice that systematic is dominated by normalization mode BR which come from an old CDF Run 1 measurement $BR( B_s \rightarrow J/\psi \phi ) = (9.3 \pm 3.3)\cdot 10^{-4}$ (PDG 2002).



Marco Rescigno 2004-05-28