Measurement of the B0 and B+ meson masses from B0 -> psi(') K_S and B+ -> psi(') K+ decays

TL;DR

This study precisely measures the masses of B0 and B+ mesons using a large dataset of B meson decays, achieving improved accuracy over previous measurements.

Contribution

The paper provides the first high-precision measurements of B0 and B+ meson masses from fully reconstructed decay candidates with very low background.

Findings

Measured M(B0) = 5279.1 ± 0.7 (stat) ± 0.3 (syst) MeV/c^2

Measured M(B+) = 5279.1 ± 0.4 (stat) ± 0.4 (syst) MeV/c^2

Significant improvement in measurement precision over previous results.

Abstract

Using 9.6 million B meson pairs collected with the CLEO detector, we have fully reconstructed 135 B0 -> psi(') K_S and 526 B+ -> psi(') K+ candidates with very low background. We fitted the psi(')K invariant mass distributions of these B meson candidates and measured the masses of the neutral and charged B mesons to be M(B0)=5279.1+-0.7[stat]+-0.3[syst] MeV/c^2 and M(B+)=5279.1+-0.4[stat]+-0.4[syst] MeV/c^2. The precision is a significant improvement over previous measurements.