Measurement of the B semileptonic branching fraction with lepton tags

被引:101
作者
Barish, B
Chadha, M
Chan, S
Eigen, G
Miller, JS
OGrady, C
Urheim, J
Weinstein, AJ
Wurthwein, F
Asner, DM
Athanas, M
Bliss, DW
Brower, WS
Masek, G
Paar, HP
Gronberg, J
Korte, CM
Kutschke, R
Menary, S
Morrison, RJ
Nakanishi, S
Nelson, HN
Nelson, TK
Qiao, C
Richman, JD
Roberts, D
Ryd, A
Tajima, H
Witherell, MS
Balest, R
Cho, K
Ford, WT
Lohner, M
Park, H
Rankin, P
Smith, JG
Alexander, JP
Bebek, C
Berger, BE
Berkelman, K
Bloom, K
Browder, TE
Cassel, DG
Cho, HA
Coffman, DM
Crowcroft, DS
Dickson, M
Drell, PS
Dumas, DJ
Ehrlich, R
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[1] UNIV HAWAII,HONOLULU,HI 96802
[2] UNIV CALIF SAN DIEGO,LA JOLLA,CA 92093
[3] UNIV CALIF SANTA BARBARA,SANTA BARBARA,CA 93106
[4] UNIV COLORADO,BOULDER,CO 80309
[5] CORNELL UNIV,ITHACA,NY 14853
[6] UNIV FLORIDA,GAINESVILLE,FL 32611
[7] HARVARD UNIV,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02138
[8] UNIV ILLINOIS,CHAMPAIGN,IL 61801
[9] CARLETON UNIV,OTTAWA,ON K1S 5B6,CANADA
[10] INST PARTICLE PHYS,MONTREAL,PQ,CANADA
[11] MCGILL UNIV,MONTREAL,PQ H3A 2T8,CANADA
[12] ITHACA COLL,ITHACA,NY 14850
[13] UNIV KANSAS,LAWRENCE,KS 66045
[14] UNIV MINNESOTA,MINNEAPOLIS,MN 55455
[15] SUNY ALBANY,ALBANY,NY 12222
[16] OHIO STATE UNIV,COLUMBUS,OH 43210
[17] UNIV OKLAHOMA,NORMAN,OK 73019
[18] PURDUE UNIV,W LAFAYETTE,IN 47907
[19] UNIV ROCHESTER,ROCHESTER,NY 14627
[20] SO METHODIST UNIV,DALLAS,TX 75275
[21] SYRACUSE UNIV,SYRACUSE,NY 13244
[22] VANDERBILT UNIV,NASHVILLE,TN 37235
[23] VIRGINIA POLYTECH INST & STATE UNIV,BLACKSBURG,VA 24061
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.1570
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We have used the CLEO II detector and 2.06 fb(-1) of Y(4S) data to measure the B-meson semileptonic branching fraction. The B --> Xe nu momentum spectrum was obtained over nearly the full momentum range by using charge and kinematic correlations in events with a high-momentum lepton tag and an additional electron. We find B(B --> Xe nu) = (10.49 +/- 0.17 +/- 0.43)%, with overall systematic uncertainties less than those of untagged single-lepton measurements. We use this result to calculate the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element V-cb and to set an upper limit on the fraction of Y(4S) decays to final states other than B (B) over bar.
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页码:1570 / 1574
页数:5
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