B Flavor Tagging Using Opposite Side Jet Charge 
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The CDF Collaboration

August 13, 2004

Abstract:

We describe a Jet Charge algorithm for flavor tagging of B mesons. The algorithm determines the flavor of the signal B candidate by calculating the effective charge of the opposite side b jet. This version is our current best incorporating Silicon Stand Alone Tracking and 3 groups of different quality tags, including jets with high displaced track content. We measure the tagging power of the algorithm to be % on the inclusive e-SVT data sample of 290 pb.

Description

This study measures performance of the Jet Charge Tagger (JQT) on a sample of semileptonic B decays. We use 290 of data collected with e-SVT and -SVT triggers. By applying subtraction in signed impact parameter of the displaced track to suppress light quark background and cutting on the invariant mass of the lepton and the displaced track to remove  contamination we achieve an equivalent of a 100% pure sample of semileptonic B decays.

The current version of the algorithm uses cone clustering algorithm to find track based jets. The cone size in  is 1.5 tuned for the best performance on data. As the first step of the algorithm all jets in each event are found on the opposite side from the trigger B meson. Next, the tagging jet is selected out of all available jets. There are three mutually exclusive groups of events.

1. first, we look for a jet that contains a secondary vertex. These are the best, highest dilution jets, further referred as ``SecVtx jets''
2. in the events with no SecVtx jet found we look for a jet that with the highest probability to contain displaced tracks. The probability for a jet to have high displaced track content is required to satisfy a certain cut. The events with such jets found fall into the second group called `` jtes''
3. finally, if an event has neither SecVtx nor  jets while does have *some* jets, the highest  jet is selected for tagging. These is the ``high  group.

After the tagging jet is selected, the jet charge  is calculated adding all tracks with weights proportional to the of the tracks and the probability to be displaced. The sign of the jet charge determines the tagger decision.

The JQT is applied to the semileptonic B candidates. We measure the tagging power using the sign of the trigger lepton as an indicator for the trigger side B production flavor. The effects of mixing and sequential decays on the trigger side on the dilution are corrected for by a scale factor known from MC.

Blessed Numbers

This section summarizes the numbers which have been blessed for this analysis.

Tuned JQT performance on the e-SVT sample

The value for  is corrected for the trigger side mixing and sequential decays. It is obtained by adding subsamples of events with different quality tags. We have separated events into subsamples depending on whether the tagging jet contains a SevVtx,  or high  jet and into 11 bins of the jet charge  value.
 

Note: the error blessed is statistical only, however systematics have been estimated as well. Although we do not want to quote the values for systematics we have verified that the total systematic uncertainty is fairly close to the statistical one.

The full table below contains a more full picture for efficiencies and dilutions. The dilutions in the table correspond to the ``effective'' true dilution calculated as  where  is the combined value with all subsamples added.
 

The e-SVT sample used in this analysis contains 484000 signal candidates after all cuts and background subtraction.

Blessed Figures

The following figures have been blessed for the mass difference measurement. More text can be found in CDF note 7131.

Figure 1: Jet charge distribution for the SecVtx,  and high  groups of jets for the e-SVT sample. Notice a better separation for jets with a secondary vertex.

Figure 2: Dilution dependence on the jet charge for the SecVtx,  and high  groups of jets for the e-SVT sample. Notice a generally higher dilution for jets with a secondary vertex.

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B Flavor Tagging Using Opposite Side Jet Charge
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