Study of the B0 Semileptonic Decay Spectrum at the upsilon(4S) Resonance
We have made a first measurement of the lepton momentum spectrum in a sample of events enriched in neutral B's through a partial reconstruction of B{sup 0} {yields} D*{sup -}{ell}{sup +}{nu}. This spectrum, measured with 2.38 fb{sup -1} of data collected at the {Upsilon}(4S) resonance by the CLEO II detector, is compared directly to the inclusive lepton spectrum from all {Upsilon}(4S) events in the same data set. These two spectra are consistent with having the same shape above 1.5 GeV/c. From the two spectra and two other CLEO measurements, we obtain the B{sup 0} and B{sup +} semileptonic branching fractions, b{sub 0} and b{sub +}, their ratio, and the production ratio f{sub +-}/f{sub 00} of B{sup +} and B{sup 0} pairs at the {Upsilon}(4S). We report b{sub +}/b{sub 0} = 0.950{sub -0.080}{sup +0.117} {+-} 0.091, b{sub 0} = (10.78 {+-} 0.60 {+-} 0.69)%, and b{sub +} = (10.25 {+-} 0.57 {+-} 0.65)%. b{sub +}/b{sub 0} is equivalent to the ratio of charged to neutral B lifetimes, {tau}{sub +}/{tau}{sub 0}.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 813094
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-9797; TRN: US0303652
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 9 May 2003
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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