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Title: Measurement of the branching ratio of B ¯ 0 D * + τ - ν ¯ τ relative to B ¯ 0 D * + - ν ¯ decays with a semileptonic tagging method

Journal Article · · Physical Review D
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Here, we report a measurement of the ratio R ( D * ) = B ( B ¯ 0 D * + τ - ν ¯ τ ) / B ( B ¯ 0 D * + - ν ¯ ) , where denotes an electron or a muon. The results are based on a data sample containing 772 × 1 0 6 B B ¯ pairs recorded at the Υ ( 4 S ) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB e + e - collider. We select a sample of B 0 B ¯ 0 pairs by reconstructing both B mesons in semileptonic decays to D * ± . We measure R ( D * ) = 0.302 ± 0.030 ( stat ) ± 0.011 ( syst ) , which is within 1.6 σ of the Standard Model theoretical expectation, where the standard deviation σ includes systematic uncertainties. We use this measurement to constrain several scenarios of new physics in a model-independent technique.

Research Organization:
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States); Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Contributing Organization:
Belle Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0009973; SC0010504
OSTI ID:
1594373
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1330289
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Vol. 94, Issue 7; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 217 works
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