Measurement and interpretation of moments in inclusive semileptonic decays B{yields}X{sub c}l{sup -{nu}}

Journal Article · Mon Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.032003· OSTI ID:21409145

Aubert, B; Karyotakis, Y; Lees, J P; Poireau, V; Prencipe, E; Prudent, X; Tisserand, V ^[1]; Tico, J Garra; Grauges, E ^[2]; Martinelli, M; Palano, A; Pappagallo, M ^[3]; Eigen, G; Stugu, B; Sun, L ^[4]; Battaglia, M; Brown, D N; Kerth, L T; Kolomensky, Yu G; Lynch, G ^[5]

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1. Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Universite de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux (France)
2. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
3. INFN Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
4. University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

We present results for the moments of observed spectra in inclusive semileptonic B-meson decays to charm hadrons B{yields}X{sub c}l{sup -{nu}}. Moments of the hadronic-mass and the combined mass-and-energy spectra for different minimum electron or muon momenta between 0.8 and 1.9 GeV/c are obtained from a sample of 232x10{sup 6} {Upsilon}(4S){yields}BB events, collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B-meson factory at SLAC. We also present a reevaluation of the moments of electron-energy spectra and partial decay fractions B(B{yields}X{sub c}e{sup -{nu}}) for minimum electron momenta between 0.6 and 1.5 GeV/c based on a sample of 51x10{sup 6} {Upsilon}(4S){yields}BB events. The measurements are used for the extraction of the total decay fraction, the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix element |V{sub cb}|, the quark masses m{sub b} and m{sub c}, and four heavy-quark QCD parameters in the framework of a Heavy-Quark Expansion (HQE). We find B(B{yields}X{sub c}l{sup -{nu}})=(10.64{+-}0.17{+-}0.06)% and |V{sub cb}|=(42.05{+-}0.45{+-}0.70)x10{sup -3}.

• OSTI ID: 21409145
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 81; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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