Published: 2000
Total Pages: 5
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We set a preliminary 95% C.L. exclusion on the oscillation frequency of B{sub s}° - {bar B}{sub s}° mixing using a sample of 400,000 hadronic Z° decays collected by the SLD experiment at the SLC between 1996 and 1998. The analyses determine the b-hadron flavor at production by exploiting the large forward-backward asymmetry of polarized Z° 2!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 topological technique, and separation between B{sub s}° and {bar B}{sub s}° decays exploits the B{sub s}° 2!D{sub s}− 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}° - {bar B}{sub s}° mixing oscillation frequency: [Delta]m{sub s}