B. Abbott, M. Abolins, V. Abramov, B.S. Acharya, I. Adam, D.L. Adams, M. Adams, S. Ahn, H. Aihara, G.A. Alves, N. Amos, E.W. Anderson, R. Astur, M.M. Baarmand, V.V. Babintsev, L. Babukhadia, A. Baden, V. Balamurali, B. Baldin, S. Banerjee, J. Bantly, E. Barberis, P. Baringer, J.F. Bartlett, A. Belyaev, S.B. Beri, I. Bertram, V.A. Bezzubov, P.C. Bhat, V. Bhatnagar, M. Bhattacharjee, N. Biswas, G. Blazey, S. Blessing, P. Bloom, A. Boehnlein, N.I. Bojko, F. Borcherding, C. Boswell, A. Brandt, R. Breedon, R. Brock, A. Bross, D. Buchholz, V.S. Burtovoi, J.M. Butler, W. Carvalho, D. Casey, Z. Casilum, H. Castilla-Valdez, D. Chakraborty, S.-M. Chang, S.V. Chekulaev, L.-P. Chen, W. Chen, S. Choi, S. Chopra, B.C. Choudhary, J.H. Christenson, M. Chung, D. Claes, A.R. Clark, W.G. Cobau, J. Cochran, L. Coney, W.E. Cooper, C. Cretsinger, D. Cullen-Vidal, M.A.C. Cummings, D. Cutts, O.I. Dahl, K. Davis, K. De, K. Del Signore, M. Demarteau, D. Denisov, S.P. Denisov, H.T. Diehl, M. Diesburg, G. Di Loreto, P. Draper, Y. Ducros, L.V. Dudko, S.R. Dugad, A. Dyshkant, D. Edmunds, J. Ellison, V.D. Elvira, R. Engelmann, S. Eno, G. Eppley, P. Ermolov, O.V. Eroshin, V.N. Evdokimov, T. Fahland, M.K. Fatyga, S. Feher, D. Fein, T. Ferbel, G. Finocchiaro, H.E. Fisk, Y. Fisyak, E. Flattum, G.E. Forden, M. Fortner, K.C. Frame, S. Fuess, E. Gallas, A.N. Galyaev, P. Gartung, V. Gavrilov, T.L. Geld, R.J. Genik II, K. Genser, C.E. Gerber, Y. Gershtein, B. Gibbard, B. Gobbi, B. Gómez, G. Gómez, P.I. Goncharov, J.L. González Soĺıs, H. Gordon, L.T. Goss, K. Gounder, A. Goussiou, N. Graf, P.D. Grannis, D.R. Green, H. Greenlee, S. Grinstein, P. Grudberg, S. Grünendahl, G. Guglielmo, J.A. Guida, J.M. Guida, A. Gupta, S.N. Gurzhiev, G. Gutierrez, P. Gutierrez, N.J. Hadley, H. Haggerty, S. Hagopian, V. Hagopian, K.S. Hahn, R.E. Hall, P. Hanlet, S. Hansen, J.M. Hauptman, D. Hedin, A.P. Heinson, U. Heintz, R. Hernández-Montoya, T. Heuring, R. Hirosky, J.D. Hobbs, B. Hoeneisen, J.S. Hoftun, F. Hsieh, Ting Hu, Tong Hu, T. Huehn, A.S. Ito, E. James, J. Jaques, S.A. Jerger, R. Jesik, T. Joffe-Minor, K. Johns, M. Johnson, A. Jonckheere, M. Jones, H. Jöstlein, S.Y. Jun, C.K. Jung, S. Kahn, G. Kalbfleisch, D. Karmanov, D. Karmgard, R. Kehoe, M.L. Kelly, S.K. Kim, B. Klima, C. Klopfenstein, W. Ko, J.M. Kohli, D. Koltick, A.V. Kostritskiy, J. Kotcher, A.V. Kotwal, A.V. Kozelov, E.A. Kozlovsky, J. Krane, M.R. Krishnaswamy, S. Krzywdzinski, S. Kuleshov, S. Kunori, F. Landry, G. Landsberg, B. Lauer, A. Leflat, J. Li, Q.Z. Li-Demarteau, J.G.R. Lima, D. Lincoln, S.L. Linn, J. Linnemann, R. Lipton, F. Lobkowicz, S.C. Loken, A. Lucotte, L. Lueking, A.L. Lyon, A.K.A. Maciel, R.J. Madaras, R. Madden, L. Magaña-Mendoza, V. Manankov, S. Mani, H.S. Mao, R. Markeloff, T. Marshall, M.I. Martin, K.M. Mauritz, B. May, A.A. Mayorov, R. McCarthy, J. McDonald, T. McKibben, J. McKinley, T. McMahon, H.L. Melanson, M. Merkin, K.W. Merritt, C. Miao, H. Miettinen, A. Mincer, C.S. Mishra, N. Mokhov, N.K. Mondal, H.E. Montgomery, P. Mooney, M. Mostafa, H. da Motta, C. Murphy, F. Nang, M. Narain, V.S. Narasimham, A. Narayanan, H.A. Neal, J.P. Negret, P. Nemethy, D. Norman, L. Oesch, V. Oguri, E. Oliveira, E. Oltman, N. Oshima, D. Owen, P. Padley, A. Para, Y.M. Park, R. Partridge, N. Parua, M. Paterno, B. Pawlik, J. Perkins, M. Peters, R. Piegaia, H. Piekarz, Y. Pischalnikov, B.G. Pope, H.B. Prosper, S. Protopopescu, J. Qian, P.Z. Quintas, R. Raja, S. Rajagopalan, O. Ramirez, S. Reucroft, M. Rijssenbeek, T. Rockwell, M. Roco, P. Rubinov, R. Ruchti, J. Rutherfoord, A. Sánchez-Hernández, A. Santoro, L. Sawyer, R.D. Schamberger, H. Schellman, J. Sculli, E. Shabalina, C. Shaffer, H.C. Shankar, R.K. Shivpuri, M. Shupe, H. Singh, J.B. Singh, V. Sirotenko, E. Smith, R.P. Smith, R. Snihur, G.R. Snow, J. Snow, S. Snyder, J. Solomon, M. Sosebee, N. Sotnikova, M. Souza, A.L. Spadafora, G. Steinbrück, R.W. Stephens, M.L. Stevenson, D. Stewart, F. Stichelbaut, D. Stoker, V. Stolin, D.A. Stoyanova, M. Strauss, K. Streets, M. Strovink, A. Sznajder, P. Tamburello, J. Tarazi, M. Tartaglia, T.L.T. Thomas, J. Thompson, T.G. Trippe, P.M. Tuts, V. Vaniev, N. Varelas, E.W. Varnes, D. Vititoe, A.A. Volkov, A.P. Vorobiev, H.D. Wahl, G. Wang, J. Warchol, G. Watts, M. Wayne, H. Weerts, A. White, J.T. White, J.A. Wightman, S. Willis, S.J. Wimpenny, J.V.D. Wirjawan, J. Womersley, E. Won, D.R. Wood, Z. Wu, H. Xu, R. Yamada, P. Yamin, T. Yasuda, P. Yepes, K. Yip, C. Yoshikawa, S. Youssef, J. Yu, Y. Yu, B. Zhang, Y. Zhou, Z. Zhou, Z.H. Zhu, M. Zielinski, D. Zieminska, A. Zieminski, E.G. Zverev, and A. Zylberstejn

We set a preliminary 95% C.L. exclusion on the oscillation frequency of B s − B 0 s mixing using a sample of 400,000 hadronic Z decays collected by the SLD experiment at the SLC during the 1996-98 run. Three analyses are presented in this paper. The first analysis partially reconstructs the B s by combining a fully reconstructed Ds with the remaining charged B decay tracks. The second analysis selects a sample of events with a partially reconstructed charm vertex and a lepton track. The third analysis reconstructs b-hadrons topologically and exploits the b → c cascade charge structure to determine the flavor of the b-hadron at decay. All three analyses take advantage of the large forward-backward asymmetry of the polarized Z → bb decays and information in the hemisphere opposite to the reconstructed B vertex to determine the b-hadron flavor at production. The results of the three analyses are combined to exclude the following values of the B s −B0 s oscillation frequency: ∆ms < 7.6 ps −1 and 11.8 < ∆ms < 14.8 ps −1 at the 95% confidence level. Contributed to the Proceedings of DPF2000: The Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, Columbus, Ohio, 9-12 Aug 2000. ∗Work supported in part by the Department of Energy contract DE–AC03–76SF00515.

B. Abbott, M. Abolins, B.S. Acharya, I. Adam, D.L. Adams, M. Adams, S. Ahn, H. Aihara, G.A. Alves, N. Amos, E.W. Anderson, R. Astur, M.M. Baarmand, A. Baden, V. Balamurali, J. Balderston, B. Baldin, S. Banerjee, J. Bantly, E. Barberis, J.F. Bartlett, K. Bazizi, A. Belyaev, S.B. Beri, I. Bertram, V.A. Bezzubov, P.C. Bhat, V. Bhatnagar, M. Bhattacharjee, N. Biswas, G. Blazey, S. Blessing, P. Bloom, A. Boehnlein, N.I. Bojko, F. Borcherding, C. Boswell, A. Brandt, R. Brock, A. Bross, D. Buchholz, V.S. Burtovoi, J.M. Butler, W. Carvalho, D. Casey, Z. Casilum, H. Castilla-Valdez, D. Chakraborty, S.-M. Chang, S.V. Chekulaev, L.-P. Chen, W. Chen, S. Choi, S. Chopra, B.C. Choudhary, J.H. Christenson, M. Chung, D. Claes, A.R. Clark, W.G. Cobau, J. Cochran, L. Coney, W.E. Cooper, C. Cretsinger, D. Cullen-Vidal, M.A.C. Cummings, D. Cutts, O.I. Dahl, K. Davis, K. De, K. Del Signore, M. Demarteau, D. Denisov, S.P. Denisov, H.T. Diehl, M. Diesburg, G. Di Loreto, P. Draper, Y. Ducros, L.V. Dudko, S.R. Dugad, D. Edmunds, J. Ellison, V.D. Elvira, R. Engelmann, S. Eno, G. Eppley, P. Ermolov, O.V. Eroshin, V.N. Evdokimov, T. Fahland, M.K. Fatyga, S. Feher, D. Fein, T. Ferbel, G. Finocchiaro, H.E. Fisk, Y. Fisyak, E. Flattum, G.E. Forden, M. Fortner, K.C. Frame, S. Fuess, E. Gallas, A.N. Galyaev, P. Gartung, T.L. Geld, R.J. Genik II, K. Genser, C.E. Gerber, B. Gibbard, S. Glenn, B. Gobbi, A. Goldschmidt, B. Gómez, G. Gómez, P.I. Goncharov, J.L. González Soĺıs, H. Gordon, L.T. Goss, K. Gounder, A. Goussiou, N. Graf, P.D. Grannis, D.R. Green, H. Greenlee, G. Grim, S. Grinstein, N. Grossman, P. Grudberg, S. Grünendahl, G. Guglielmo, J.A. Guida, J.M. Guida, A. Gupta, S.N. Gurzhiev, P. Gutierrez, Y.E. Gutnikov, N.J. Hadley, H. Haggerty, S. Hagopian, V. Hagopian, K.S. Hahn, R.E. Hall, P. Hanlet, S. Hansen, J.M. Hauptman, D. Hedin, A.P. Heinson, U. Heintz, R. Hernández-Montoya, T. Heuring, R. Hirosky, J.D. Hobbs, B. Hoeneisen, J.S. Hoftun, F. Hsieh, Ting Hu, Tong Hu, T. Huehn, A.S. Ito, E. James, J. Jaques, S.A. Jerger, R. Jesik, J.Z.-Y. Jiang, T. Joffe-Minor, K. Johns, M. Johnson, A. Jonckheere, M. Jones, H. Jöstlein, S.Y. Jun, C.K. Jung, S. Kahn, G. Kalbfleisch, J.S. Kang, D. Karmanov, D. Karmgard, R. Kehoe, M.L. Kelly, C.L. Kim, S.K. Kim, A. Klatchko, B. Klima, C. Klopfenstein, V.I. Klyukhin, V.I. Kochetkov, J.M. Kohli, D. Koltick, A.V. Kostritskiy, J. Kotcher, A.V. Kotwal, J. Kourlas, A.V. Kozelov, E.A. Kozlovski, J. Krane, M.R. Krishnaswamy, S. Krzywdzinski, S. Kunori, S. Lami, R. Lander, F. Landry, G. Landsberg, B. Lauer, A. Leflat, H. Li, J. Li, Q.Z. Li-Demarteau, J.G.R. Lima, D. Lincoln, S.L. Linn, J. Linnemann, R. Lipton, Y.C. Liu, F. Lobkowicz, S.C. Loken, S. Lökös, L. Lueking, A.L. Lyon, A.K.A. Maciel, R.J. Madaras, R. Madden, L. Magaña-Mendoza, V. Manankov, S. Mani, H.S. Mao, R. Markeloff, T. Marshall, M.I. Martin, K.M. Mauritz, B. May, A.A. Mayorov, R. McCarthy, J. McDonald, T. McKibben, J. McKinley, T. McMahon, H.L. Melanson, M. Merkin, K.W. Merritt, H. Miettinen, A. Mincer, C.S. Mishra, N. Mokhov, N.K. Mondal, H.E. Montgomery, P. Mooney, H. da Motta, C. Murphy, F. Nang, M. Narain, V.S. Narasimham, A. Narayanan, H.A. Neal, J.P. Negret, P. Nemethy, D. Norman, L. Oesch, V. Oguri, E. Oliveira, E. Oltman, N. Oshima, D. Owen, P. Padley, A. Para, Y.M. Park, R. Partridge, N. Parua, M. Paterno, B. Pawlik, J. Perkins, M. Peters, R. Piegaia, H. Piekarz, Y. Pischalnikov, V.M. Podstavkov, B.G. Pope, H.B. Prosper, S. Protopopescu, J. Qian, P.Z. Quintas, R. Raja, S. Rajagopalan, O. Ramirez, L. Rasmussen, S. Reucroft, M. Rijssenbeek, T. Rockwell, M. Roco, N.A. Roe, P. Rubinov, R. Ruchti, J. Rutherfoord, A. Sánchez-Hernández, A. Santoro, L. Sawyer, R.D. Schamberger, H. Schellman, J. Sculli, E. Shabalina, C. Shaffer, H.C. Shankar, R.K. Shivpuri, M. Shupe, H. Singh, J.B. Singh, V. Sirotenko, W. Smart, E. Smith, R.P. Smith, R. Snihur, G.R. Snow, J. Snow, S. Snyder, J. Solomon, P.M. Sood, M. Sosebee, N. Sotnikova, M. Souza, A.L. Spadafora, G. Steinbrück, R.W. Stephens, M.L. Stevenson, D. Stewart, F. Stichelbaut, D.A. Stoianova, D. Stoker, M. Strauss, K. Streets, M. Strovink, A. Sznajder, P. Tamburello, J. Tarazi, M. Tartaglia, T.L.T. Thomas, J. Thompson, T.G. Trippe, P.M. Tuts, N. Varelas, E.W. Varnes, D. Vititoe, A.A. Volkov, A.P. Vorobiev, H.D. Wahl, G. Wang, J. Warchol, G. Watts, M. Wayne, H. Weerts, A. White, J.T. White, J.A. Wightman, S. Willis, S.J. Wimpenny, J.V.D. Wirjawan, J. Womersley, E. Won, D.R. Wood, H. Xu, R. Yamada, P. Yamin, J. Yang, T. Yasuda, P. Yepes, C. Yoshikawa, S. Youssef, J. Yu, Y. Yu, Z.H. Zhu, D. Zieminska, A. Zieminski, E.G. Zverev, and A. Zylberstejn

B. Abbott, M. Abolins, V. Abramov, B.S. Acharya, I. Adam, D.L. Adams, M. Adams, S. Ahn, V. Akimov, G.A. Alves, N. Amos, E.W. Anderson, M.M. Baarmand, V.V. Babintsev, L. Babukhadia, A. Baden, B. Baldin, S. Banerjee, J. Bantly, E. Barberis, P. Baringer, J.F. Bartlett, A. Belyaev, S.B. Beri, I. Bertram, V.A. Bezzubov, P.C. Bhat, V. Bhatnagar, M. Bhattacharjee, N. Biswas, G. Blazey, S. Blessing, P. Bloom, A. Boehnlein, N.I. Bojko, F. Borcherding, C. Boswell, A. Brandt, R. Breedon, G. Briskin, R. Brock, A. Bross, D. Buchholz, V.S. Burtovoi, J.M. Butler, W. Carvalho, D. Casey, Z. Casilum, H. Castilla-Valdez, D. Chakraborty, S.V. Chekulaev, W. Chen, S. Choi, S. Chopra, B.C. Choudhary, J.H. Christenson, M. Chung, D. Claes, A.R. Clark, W.G. Cobau, J. Cochran, L. Coney, W.E. Cooper, D. Coppage, C. Cretsinger, D. Cullen-Vidal, M.A.C. Cummings, D. Cutts, O.I. Dahl, K. Davis, K. De, K. Del Signore, M. Demarteau, D. Denisov, S.P. Denisov, H.T. Diehl, M. Diesburg, G. Di Loreto, P. Draper, Y. Ducros, L.V. Dudko, S.R. Dugad, A. Dyshkant, D. Edmunds, J. Ellison, V.D. Elvira, R. Engelmann, S. Eno, G. Eppley, P. Ermolov, O.V. Eroshin, H. Evans, V.N. Evdokimov, T. Fahland, M.K. Fatyga, S. Feher, D. Fein, T. Ferbel, H.E. Fisk, Y. Fisyak, E. Flattum, G.E. Forden, M. Fortner, K.C. Frame, S. Fuess, E. Gallas, A.N. Galyaev, P. Gartung, V. Gavrilov, T.L. Geld, R.J. Genik II, K. Genser, C.E. Gerber, Y. Gershtein, B. Gibbard, B. Gobbi, B. Gómez, G. Gómez, P.I. Goncharov, J.L. González Soĺıs, H. Gordon, L.T. Goss, K. Gounder, A. Goussiou, N. Graf, P.D. Grannis, D.R. Green, J.A. Green, H. Greenlee, S. Grinstein, P. Grudberg, S. Grünendahl, G. Guglielmo, J.A. Guida, J.M. Guida, A. Gupta, S.N. Gurzhiev, G. Gutierrez, P. Gutierrez, N.J. Hadley, H. Haggerty, S. Hagopian, V. Hagopian, K.S. Hahn, R.E. Hall, P. Hanlet, S. Hansen, J.M. Hauptman, C. Hays, C. Hebert, D. Hedin, A.P. Heinson, U. Heintz, R. Hernández-Montoya, T. Heuring, R. Hirosky, J.D. Hobbs, B. Hoeneisen, J.S. Hoftun, F. Hsieh, Tong Hu, A.S. Ito, S.A. Jerger, R. Jesik, T. Joffe-Minor, K. Johns, M. Johnson, A. Jonckheere, M. Jones, H. Jöstlein, S.Y. Jun, C.K. Jung, S. Kahn, D. Karmanov, D. Karmgard, R. Kehoe, S.K. Kim, B. Klima, C. Klopfenstein, B. Knuteson, W. Ko, J.M. Kohli, D. Koltick, A.V. Kostritskiy, J. Kotcher, A.V. Kotwal, A.V. Kozelov, E.A. Kozlovsky, J. Krane, M.R. Krishnaswamy, S. Krzywdzinski, M. Kubantsev, S. Kuleshov, Y. Kulik, S. Kunori, F. Landry, G. Landsberg, A. Leflat, J. Li, Q.Z. Li, J.G.R. Lima, D. Lincoln, S.L. Linn, J. Linnemann, R. Lipton, A. Lucotte, L. Lueking, A.L. Lyon, A.K.A. Maciel, R.J. Madaras, R. Madden, L. Magaña-Mendoza, V. Manankov, S. Mani, H.S. Mao, R. Markeloff, T. Marshall, M.I. Martin, R.D. Martin, K.M. Mauritz, B. May, A.A. Mayorov, R. McCarthy, J. McDonald, T. McKibben, J. McKinley, T. McMahon, H.L. Melanson, M. Merkin, K.W. Merritt, C. Miao, H. Miettinen, A. Mincer, C.S. Mishra, N. Mokhov, N.K. Mondal, H.E. Montgomery, P. Mooney, M. Mostafa, H. da Motta, C. Murphy, F. Nang, M. Narain, V.S. Narasimham, A. Narayanan, H.A. Neal, J.P. Negret, P. Nemethy, D. Norman, L. Oesch, V. Oguri, N. Oshima, D. Owen, P. Padley, A. Para, N. Parashar, Y.M. Park, R. Partridge, N. Parua, M. Paterno, B. Pawlik, J. Perkins, M. Peters, R. Piegaia, H. Piekarz, Y. Pischalnikov, B.G. Pope, H.B. Prosper, S. Protopopescu, J. Qian, P.Z. Quintas, R. Raja, S. Rajagopalan, O. Ramirez, N.W. Reay, S. Reucroft, M. Rijssenbeek, T. Rockwell, M. Roco, P. Rubinov, R. Ruchti, J. Rutherfoord, A. Sánchez-Hernández, A. Santoro, L. Sawyer, R.D. Schamberger, H. Schellman, J. Sculli, E. Shabalina, C. Shaffer, H.C. Shankar, R.K. Shivpuri, D. Shpakov, M. Shupe, R.A. Sidwell, H. Singh, J.B. Singh, V. Sirotenko, E. Smith, R.P. Smith, R. Snihur, G.R. Snow, J. Snow, S. Snyder, J. Solomon, M. Sosebee, N. Sotnikova, M. Souza, N.R. Stanton, G. Steinbrück, R.W. Stephens, M.L. Stevenson, F. Stichelbaut, D. Stoker, V. Stolin, D.A. Stoyanova, M. Strauss, K. Streets, M. Strovink, A. Sznajder, P. Tamburello, J. Tarazi, M. Tartaglia, T.L.T. Thomas, J. Thompson, D. Toback, T.G. Trippe, P.M. Tuts, V. Vaniev, N. Varelas, E.W. Varnes, A.A. Volkov, A.P. Vorobiev, H.D. Wahl, G. Wang, J. Warchol, G. Watts, M. Wayne, H. Weerts, A. White, J.T. White, J.A. Wightman, S. Willis, S.J. Wimpenny, J.V.D. Wirjawan, J. Womersley, D.R. Wood, R. Yamada, P. Yamin, T. Yasuda, P. Yepes, K. Yip, C. Yoshikawa, S. Youssef, J. Yu, Y. Yu, B. Zhang, Z. Zhou, Z.H. Zhu, M. Zielinski, D. Zieminska, A. Zieminski, V. Zutshi, E.G. Zverev, and A. Zylberstejn

We measure the hadronic branching ratios of the Z{sup 0} boson into heavy quarks: R{sub b} = {Lambda}{sub Z{sup 0}{yields}b{bar b}}/{Lambda}{sub Z{sup 0}{yields}hadrons} and R{sub c} = {Lambda}{sub Z{sup 0}{yields}c{bar c}}/{Lambda}{sub Z{sup 0}{yields}hadrons} using a multitag technique. The measurement was performed using about 400,000 hadronic Z{sup 0} events recorded in the SLC Large Detector experiment at SLAC between 1996 and 1998. The small and stable SLAC Linear Collider beam spot and the CCD-based vertex detector were used to reconstruct bottom and charm hadron decay vertices with high efficiency and purity, which enables us to measure most efficiencies from data. We obtain, R{sub b} = 0.21604 {+-} 0.00098(stat.) {+-} 0.00073(syst.) {-+} 0.00012(R{sub c}) and, R{sub c} = 0.1744 {+-} 0.0031(stat.) {+-} 0.0020(syst.) {-+} 0.0006(R{sub b}).

Exploiting the manipulation of the SLAC Linear Collider electron-beam polarization, we present precise direct measurements of the parity-violation parameters A(c) and A(b) in the Z-boson-c-quark and Z-boson-b-quark coupling. Quark-antiquark discrimination is accomplished via a unique algorithm that takes advantage of the precise SLAC Large Detector charge coupled device vertex detector, employing the net charge of displaced vertices as well as the charge of kaons that emanate from those vertices. From the 1996-1998 sample of 400 000 Z decays, produced with an average beam polarization of 73.4%, we find A(c)=0.673+/-0.029(stat)+/-0.023(syst) and A(b)=0.919+/-0.018(stat)+/-0.017(syst).

A new type of ring-imaging Cherenkov detector is being used for hadronic particle identification in the BaBar experiment at the SLAC B Factory (PEP-II). This detector is called DIRC, an acronym for Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov (Light). This paper will discuss the construction, operation and performance of the BaBar DIRC in detail.

We present improved measurements of the differential production rates of stable charged particles in hadronic Z0 decays, and of charged pions, kaons and protons identified over a wide momentum range using the SLD Cherenkov Ring Imaging Detector. In addition to flavor-inclusive Z0 decays, measurements are made for Z0 decays into light (u, d, s), c and b primary flavors, selected using the upgraded Vertex Detector. Large differences between the flavors are observed that are qualitatively consistent with expectations based upon previously measured production and decay properties of heavy hadrons. These results are used to test the predictions of QCD in the Modified Leading Logarithm Approximation, with the ansatz of Local Parton-Hadron Duality, and the predictions of three models of the hadronization process. The light-flavor results provide improved tests of these predictions, as they do not include the contribution of heavy-hadron production and decay; the heavy-flavor results provide complementary model tests. In addition we have compared hadron and antihadron production in light quark (as opposed to antiquark) jets. Differences are observed at high momentum for all three charged hadron species, providing direct probes of leading particle effects, and stringent constraints on models.

We report a search for B{sub s}{sup 0} - {bar B}{sub s}{sup 0} oscillations using a sample of 400,000 hadronic Z{sup 0} decays collected by the SLD experiment. The analysis takes advantage of the electron beam polarization as well as information from the hemisphere opposite that of the reconstructed B decay to tag the B production flavor. The excellent resolution provided by the pixel CCD vertex detector is exploited to cleanly reconstruct both B and cascade D decay vertices, and tag the B decay flavor from the charge difference between them. We exclude the following values of the B{sub s}{sup 0} - {bar B}{sub s}{sup 0} oscillation frequency: {Delta}m{sub s} < 4.9 ps{sup -1} and 7.8 < {Delta}m{sub s} < 10.3 ps{sup -1} at the 95% confidence level.

We present a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay of the neutral B meson into the final state J/psipi(+)pi(-). The data set contains approximately 56 x 10(6) BB pairs produced at the Upsilon(4S) resonance and recorded with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) storage ring. The result of this analysis is B(B0-->J/psipi(+)pi(-))=(4.6+/-0.7+/-0.6) x 10(-5), where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. In addition, we measure B(B0-->J/psirho(0))=(1.6+/-0.6+/-0.4) x 10(-5).

We present an improved direct measurement of the parity-violation parameter A(b) in the Z boson-b-quark coupling using a self-calibrating track-charge technique applied to a sample enriched in Z-->bb events via the topological reconstruction of the B hadron mass. Manipulation of the Stanford Linear Collider electron-beam polarization permits the measurement of A(b) to be made independently of other Z-pole coupling parameters. From the 1996-1998 sample of 400,000 hadronic Z decays, produced with an average beam polarization of 73.4%, we find A(b)=0.906+/-0.022(stat)+/-0.023(syst).

A largely model-independent measurement of the inclusive electron momentum spectrum and branching fraction for semileptonic decays of B mesons is presented based on data recorded at the Y(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector. Backgrounds from secondary charm decays are separated from prompt B decays using charge and angular correlations between the electron from one B meson and a high momentum electron tag from the second B meson. The resulting branching fraction is B(B-->Xenu)=[10.87+/-0.18(stat)+/-0.30(syst)]%. Based on this measurement we determine the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix element \V-cb\.

We report a study of the $B$ meson decays, ${B}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}\ensuremath{\phi}{K}^{+}$, ${B}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}\ensuremath{\phi}{K}_{S}^{0}$, ${B}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}\ensuremath{\phi}$, ${B}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}\ensuremath{\eta}$, and ${B}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}{\ensuremath{\eta}}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ using $56\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{6}$ $B\overline{B}$ events collected at the $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}(4S)$ resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II ${e}^{+}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ asymmetric-energy storage ring. We measure the branching fractions $\mathcal{B}({B}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}\ensuremath{\phi}{K}^{+})=\mathbf{(}4.4\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}1.4(\mathrm{s}\mathrm{t}\mathrm{a}\mathrm{t})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.5(\mathrm{s}\mathrm{y}\mathrm{s}\mathrm{t})\mathbf{)}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}5}$ and $\mathcal{B}({B}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}\ensuremath{\phi}{K}_{S}^{0})=\mathbf{(}5.1\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}1.9(\mathrm{s}\mathrm{t}\mathrm{a}\mathrm{t})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.5(\mathrm{s}\mathrm{y}\mathrm{s}\mathrm{t})\mathbf{)}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}5}$, and set upper limits at $90%$ confidence level for the branching fractions $\mathcal{B}({B}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}\ensuremath{\phi})<9.2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}6}$, $\mathcal{B}({B}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}\ensuremath{\eta})<2.7\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}5}$, and $\mathcal{B}({B}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}{\ensuremath{\eta}}^{\ensuremath{'}})<6.3\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}5}$.

We present a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay of the neutral B meson into the final state J/psipi(+)pi(-). The data set contains approximately 56 x 10(6) BB pairs produced at the Upsilon(4S) resonance and recorded with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) storage ring. The result of this analysis is B(B0-->J/psipi(+)pi(-))=(4.6+/-0.7+/-0.6) x 10(-5), where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. In addition, we measure B(B0-->J/psirho(0))=(1.6+/-0.6+/-0.4) x 10(-5).

We report a study of the B meson decays, B+ ->J/psi phi K+, B0 ->J/psi phi K0S, B0 ->J/psi phi, B0 ->J/psi eta and B0 ->J/psi eta' using 56 million BBbar events collected at the Y(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+ e- asymmetric-energy storage ring. We measure the branching fractions B(B+ ->J/psi phi K+) = (4.4 +- 1.4(stat) +- 0.5(syst)) * 10-5 and B(B0 ->J/psi phi K0S) = (5.1 +- 1.9(stat) +- 0.5(syst)) * 10^-5, and set upper limits at 90% confidence level for the branching fractions B(B0 ->J/psi phi)<9.2 * 10^-6, B(B0 ->J/psi eta)<2.7 * 10^-5, and B(B0 ->J/psi eta')<6.3 * 10-5.

The inclusive production of charmonium mesons in B meson decay has been studied in a 20.3 fb{sup -1} data set collected by the BABAR experiment operating at the {Upsilon}(4S) resonance. Branching fractions have been measured for the inclusive production of the charmonium mesons J/{psi}, {psi}(2S), {chi}{sub c1}, and {chi}{sub c2}. The branching fractions are also presented as a function of the center-of-mass momentum of the mesons and of the helicity of the J/{psi}.

We search for direct CP violation in charmless hadronic B decays observed in a sample of about 22.7 million B (B) over bar pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) collider. We measure the following charge asymmetries: A(CP)(B+/- --> eta'K+/-) = -0.11 +/- 0.11 +/- 0.02, A(CP)(B+/- --> omegapi+/-) = -0.01 +/- (0.29)(0.31) +/- 0.03, A(CP)(B+/- -->phiK+/-)= -00.5 +/-0.20+/-0.03, A(CP)(B+/- --> phiK*=/-)= -0.43 (+0.36)(-0.30) +/-0.06, and A(CP)((B) over bar (0) --> phi(K) over bar*(0)) = 0.00 +/- 0.27 +/- 0.03.