Dejan Vucinic
Ph.D. Thesis

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis advisor: Paraskevas A. Sphicas
Submitted: September 30, 1998
Graduation date: February 1999

Title
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Observation of Excited B Mesons in p-pbar Collisions
at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV

Abstract
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Production of orbitally excited (L = 1) states of B mesons, B**, is
studied using a sample of nearly ten thousand partially reconstructed
B mesons collected with the CDF detector from p-pbar collisions at
sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV.  Ambiguities in the reconstruction of the B flavor
and momentum are resolved. The fraction of b quarks that hadronize
into an L = 1 state is measured to be 0.28 +/- 0.06 (stat.) +/- 0.03
(syst.), and the collective mass of the B** states is measured to be 
m(B_1) = 5.71 +/- 0.02 GeV/c^2 given the mass splittings between the
four states.



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