Scale Factors for Proper Time Uncertainties at CDF

This web page summarizes the blessed results for measurement of the scale factors for proper time resolution in the CDF detector. Accurate knowledge of &sigmact is essential for derivation of a correct lower limit on the Bs oscillation frequency, and this study has been performed as part of the ongoing CDF effort toward that measurement. These results were blessed in the B Physics Meeting of Thursday October 13, 2005.

A complete description can be found in CDF note 7944.

These results are applied in the hadronic and semileptonic two-track trigger Bs signal analyses.


The scale factor parameterizations use the following variables:


The scale factor for application to the Bs -> Ds &pi/l signal is of the form:

with parameter values:


The scale factor for application to the Bs -> Ds 3&pi signal is of the form:

with parameter values:



Separate eps versions of all figures: