Study of B to pi ell nu and B to rho ell nu Decays and Determination of |V_ub|
We present an analysis of exclusive charmless semileptonic B-meson decays based on 83 million B{bar B} pairs recorded with the BABAR detector at the {Upsilon}(4S) resonance. Using isospin symmetry, we measure branching fractions {Beta}(B{sup 0} {yields} {pi}{sup -}{ell}{sup +}{nu}) = (1.38 {+-} 0.10 {+-} 0.16 {+-} 0.08) x 10{sup -4} and {Beta}(B{sup 0} {yields} {rho}{sup -}{ell}{sup +}{nu}) = (2.14 {+-} 0.21 {+-} 0.48 {+-} 0.28) x 10{sup -4}, where the errors are statistical, experimental systematic, and due to form-factor shape uncertainties. We compare the measured distribution in q{sup 2}, the momentum-transfer squared, with theoretical predictions for the form factors from lattice QCD and light-cone sum rules, and extract the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix element |V{sub ub}| = (3.82 {+-} 0.14 {+-} 0.22 {+-} 0.11{sub -0.52}{sup +0.88}) x 10{sup -3} from B {yields} {pi}{ell}{nu} where the fourth error reflects the uncertainty of the form-factor normalization.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 878098
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-11053; PRVDAQ; hep-ex/0507003; TRN: US0601828
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, D (Particles Fields), Vol. 72; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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