Measurement of the inclusive charmless semileptonic branching fraction of beauty hadrons and a determination of |Vub| at LEP

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Acciarri, M [1 ]
Adriani, O
Aguilar-Benitez, M
Ahlen, S
Alcaraz, J
Alemanni, G
Allaby, J
Aloisio, A
Alviggi, MG
Ambrosi, G
Anderhub, H
Andreev, VP
Angelescu, T
Anselmo, F
Arefiev, A
Azemoon, T
Aziz, T
Bagnaia, P
Baksay, L
Ball, RC
Banerjee, S
Banerjee, S
Banicz, K
Barczyk, A
Barillere, R
Barone, L
Bartalini, P
Baschirotto, A
Basile, M
Battiston, R
Bay, A
Becattini, F
Becker, U
Behner, F
Berdugo, J
Berges, P
Bertucci, B
Betev, BL
Bhattacharya, S
Biasini, M
Biland, A
Bilei, GM
Blaising, JJ
Blyth, SC
Bobbink, GJ
Bock, R
Bohm, A
Boldizsar, L
Borgia, B
Bourilkov, D
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[1] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[3] Natl Inst High Energy Phys, NIKHEF, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[4] Univ Amsterdam, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[5] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[6] Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, LAPP, CNRS, IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[7] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[8] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[9] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[10] Humboldt Univ, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
[11] Univ Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[12] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[13] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[14] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[15] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[16] Inst Atom Phys, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[17] Univ Bucharest, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[18] Hungarian Acad Sci, Cent Res Inst Phys, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary
[19] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[20] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[21] Univ Florence, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[22] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[23] World Lab, FBLJA Project, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[24] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[25] Chinese Univ Sci & Technol, Hefei 230029, Peoples R China
[26] SEFT, Res Inst High Energy Phys, SF-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[27] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[28] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[29] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA
[30] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, Inst Phys Nucl Lyon, IN2P3, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[31] CIEMAT, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[32] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[33] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow, Russia
[34] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Napoli, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[35] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[36] Univ Cyprus, Dept Nat Sci, Nicosia, Cyprus
[37] Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[38] Natl Inst Nucl Phys & High Energy Phys, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[39] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[40] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[41] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[42] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[43] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[44] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[45] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[46] Inst Phys Nucl, St Petersburg, Russia
[47] Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[48] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[49] Univ Calif San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093 USA
[50] Univ Santiago, Dept Fis Particulas Elementales, E-15706 Santiago, Spain
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10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00941-1
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摘要
A measurement of the inclusive charmless semileptonic branching fraction of beauty hadrons, b --> X-u l nu, has been performed using almost two million hadronic Z decays collected by the L3 experiment at LEP, yielding the result: Br(b --> X-u l nu) = (3.3 +/- 1.0 +/- 1.7) x 10(-3). The first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. The modulus of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element V-ub extracted from this measurement is: \V-ub\ = (6.0(-1.0-1.9)(+0.8+1.4) +/- 0.2) x 10(-3), where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic and theoretical, respectively. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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