Measurement of the Exclusive and Inclusive Branching Fractions of B0s→D(*)s+Ds(*) Decays at CDF and its Implications on the Decay Width Difference in the B0s-B̄0s Meson System [Elektronische Ressource] / Dominik Horn. Betreuer: M. Feindt
MeasurementoftheExclusiveandInclusiveBranchingFractionsof()+ ()0B ! D D DecaysatCDFands ssitsImplicationsontheDecayWidth0 ¯0Differenceinthe B B MesonSystems sZur Erlangung des akademischen Grades einesDoktors der Naturwissenschaftenvon der Fakultät für Physik desKarlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)genehmigteDissertationvonDipl.-Phys. Dominik E. Hornaus OffenburgTag der mündlichen Prüfung: 18.11.2011Referent: Prof. Dr. M. FeindtKorreferent: Prof. Dr. U. HusemannKIT – Universität des Landes Baden-Würtemberg und nationales Forschungszentrum der Helmholtz-Gesellschaft www.kit.edu“Insight is not the same as scientificdeduction, but even at that it may be morereliable than statistics.”Anthony Standen, “Science is a sacred cow”.Synopsis0In recent years, B meson decays into non-leptonic CP specific final states ha-sve received considerable interest in the heavy flavor physics community. Thisis primarily due to the rich phenomenology inherent in the rapidly oscillating0 ¯0B B system, and the possibility to probe observables that are directly linkedssto fundamental parameters of the underlying Kobayashi-Maskawa (KM) model.Being embedded in the Standard Model (SM) of elementary particle physics, theKobayashi-Maskawa mechanism describes quark flavor transitions through char-ged currents of weak interaction.