Flavor Tagging at the Tevatron, Including Calibration and Control

This report summarizes the flavor tagging techniques developed at the CDF and DØ experiments. Flavor tagging involves identification of the B meson flavor at production, whether its constituent is a b quark or an anti-quark. quark flavor content and hence the decay products do not identify the B flavor content at production. It is crucial for measuring the oscillation frequency of neutral B mesons, both in the B 0 and system. The two experiments have developed their unique approaches to flavor tagging, using neural networks and likelihood methods to disentangle tracks from b decays from other tracks. This report discusses these techniques and the measurement of B 0 mixing as a means to calibrate the taggers. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]