Beauty Quark Fragmentation Into Strange B Mesons

Abstract

Using the recent measurement of the total production rate for $B_s$ and $B_s^{\ast }$ mesons in electron-positron annihilation to determine the strange quark mass parameter in the $\bar{b}\to B_s,B_s^{\ast }$ fragmentation functions we calculate the momentum distributions of the $B_s$ and $B_s^{\ast }$ mesons.

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures (not included but available upon request), standard LaTeX file, Report # NUHEP-TH-94-12