Ph.D. Thesis submission to University of California, Berkeley, CA
by William Carl Wester, III
April 28, 1994

Title
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A Measurement of the Mass of the B_s^0 Meson in Proton-Antiproton 
Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV

Abstract for Thesis
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The large b quark production cross section at the Fermilab Tevatron and the
capabilities of the CDF experiment during the 1992-93 pbar-p collider running
are exploited to fully reconstruct B mesons and measure their masses.  Signals
of 139.9 +- 15.0 B^- -> J/Psi K^- candidates, 56.5 +- 9.5 B^0 -> J/Psi K^*
candidates, and 32.9 +- 6.8 B_s^0 -> J/Psi Phi candidates are used to measure
the masses:

M(B^-)   = 5279.6 +- 1.7 (stat) +- 2.9 (syst) MeV/c^2
M(B^0)   = 5279.9 +- 2.5 (stat) +- 3.7 (syst) MeV/c^2
M(B_s^0) = 5367.7 +- 2.4 (stat) +- 4.8 (syst) MeV/c^2


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