Published: 2004
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We set a preliminary 95% C.L. exclusion on the oscillation frequency of B[sub s][sup 0]-[bar B][sub s][sup 0] mixing using a sample of 350,000 hadronic Z[sup 0] decays collected by the SLD experiment at the SLC during the 1997-98 run. The analyses determine the b-hadron flavor at production by exploiting the large forward-backward asymmetry of polarized Z[sup 0][yields] b[bar b] decays as well as information from the hemisphere opposite that of the reconstructed B decay. In one analysis, B decay vertices are reconstructed inclusively with a new topological technique, and separation between B[sub s][sup 0] and[bar B][sub s][sup 0] decays exploits the B[sub s][sup 0][yields] D[sub s][sup -] cascade charge structure. In the other analysis, semileptonic decays are selected and the B decay point is reconstructed by intersecting a lepton track with the trajectory of a topologically reconstructed D meson. The two analyses are combined with a third analysis described elsewhere to exclude the following values of the B[sub s][sup 0]-[bar B][sub s][sup 0] mixing oscillation frequency:[Delta]m[sub s]