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General considerations

Invariant mass b tag.

Can be called after QIPBTAG or QVSRCH, to further increase b purity.

For each event-half QBMTAG loops over tracks in order of decreasing inconsistency with primary vertex, and stops when their combined invariant mass exceeds 1.8 GeV. (i.e. The mass of a typical charmed hadron). It then returns a tag, CLMASS, indicating the probablity that the ``last track" used came from primary vertex.

For a very high purity tag, CLMASS should be combined with the QIPTBAG or QVSRCH tags. The optimal linear combination (together with suggested cuts) is:

 
         0.7*CLMASS - 0.3*log10(QIPBTAG) > 2.4
     or   0.7*CLMASS + 0.3*QVSRCH > 8.3



Joel Closier
2000-02-07