B meson

B meson

B mesons are mesons composed of a bottom quark or bottom antiquark and either an up (B+
), down (B0
), strange (B0
s
) or charm quark (B+
c
). The combination of a bottom antiquark and a top quark is not thought to be possible because of the top quark's short lifetime. The combination of a bottom antiquark and a bottom quark is not a B meson, but rather bottomonium.

Each B meson has an antiparticle that is composed of a bottom quark and an up (B
), down (B0
), strange (B0
s
) or charm antiquark (B
c
) respectively.

Contents

List of B mesons

B mesons
Particle Symbol Anti-particle Quark
content
Charge Isospin
(I)
Spin and parity
(JP)
Rest mass
(MeV/c2)
S C B' Mean lifetime
(s)
Commonly decays to
B meson B+
B
ub +1 12 0 5,279.15±0.31 0 0 +1 1.638±0.011×10−12 See B±
decay modes
B meson B0
B0
db 0 12 0 5,279.53±0.33 0 0 +1 1.530±0.009×10−12 See B0
decay modes
Strange B meson B0
s
B0
s
sb 0 0 0 5,366.3±0.6 −1 0 +1 1.470+0.027
−0.026
×10−12
See B0
s
decay modes
Charmed B meson B+
c
B
c
cb +1 0 0 6,276±4 0 +1 +1 0.46±0.07×10−12 See B±
c
decay modes

BB oscillations

The neutral B mesons, B0
and B0
s
, spontaneously transform into their own antiparticles and back. This phenomenon is called flavor oscillation. The existence of neutral B meson oscillations is a fundamental prediction of the Standard Model of particle physics. It has been measured in the B0
B0
system to be about 0.496 ps−1,[1] and in the B0
s
B0
s
system to be Δms = 17.77 ± 0.10 (stat) ± 0.07 (syst) ps−1 measured by CDF experiment at Fermilab.[2] A first estimation of the lower and upper limit of the B0
s
B0
s
system value have been made by the DØ experiment also at Fermilab.[3]

On 25 September 2006, Fermilab announced that they had claimed discovery of previously-only-theorized Bs meson oscillation.[4] According to Fermilab's press release:

This first major discovery of Run 2 continues the tradition of particle physics discoveries at Fermilab, where the bottom (1977) and top (1995) quarks were discovered. Surprisingly, the bizarre behavior of the B_s (pronounced "B sub s") mesons is actually predicted by the Standard Model of fundamental particles and forces. The discovery of this oscillatory behavior is thus another reinforcement of the Standard Model's durability...

CDF physicists have previously measured the rate of the matter-antimatter transitions for the B_s meson, which consists of the heavy bottom quark bound by the strong nuclear interaction to a strange antiquark. Now they have achieved the standard for a discovery in the field of particle physics, where the probability for a false observation must be proven to be less than about 5 in 10 million (5/10,000,000). For CDF's result the probability is even smaller, at 8 in 100 million (8/100,000,000).

Ronald Kotulak, writing for the Chicago Tribune, called the particle "bizarre" and stated that the meson "may open the door to a new era of physics" with its proven interactions with the "spooky realm of antimatter".[5]

On 14 May 2010, physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory reported that the oscillations decayed into matter 1% more often than into antimatter, which may help explain the abundance of matter over antimatter in the observed Universe.[6] However, more recent results at LHCb with larger data samples have suggested no significant deviation from the Standard Model.[7]

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