Determination of the b̄→d*ℓv̄ decay width and |Vcb

Autor: Adam, NE, Alexander, JP, Bebek, C, Berger, BE, Berkelman, K, Blanc, F, Boisvert, V, Cassel, DG, Drell, PS, Duboscq, JE, Ecklund, KM, Ehrlich, R, Gibbons, L, Gittelman, B, Gray, SW, Hartill, DL, Heltsley, BK, Hsu, L, Jones, CD, Kandaswamy, J, Kreinick, DL, Magerkurth, A, Mahlke-Krüger, H, Meyer, TO, Mistry, NB, Nordberg, E, Palmer, M, Patterson, JR, Peterson, D, Pivarski, J, Riley, D, Sadoff, AJ, Schwarthoff, H, Shepherd, MR, Thayer, JG, Urner, D, Valant-Spaight, B, Viehhauser, G, Warburton, A, Weinberger, M, Athar, SB, Avery, P, Stoeck, H, Yelton, J, Brandenburg, G, Ershov, A, Kim, DY-J, Wilson, R, Benslama, K, Eisenstein, BI, Ernst, J, Gollin, GD, Hans, RM, Karliner, I, Lowrey, N, Marsh, MA, Plager, C, Sedlack, C, Selen, M, Thaler, JJ, Williams, J, Edwards, KW, Ammar, R, Besson, D, Zhao, X, Anderson, S, Frolov, VV, Kubota, Y, Lee, SJ, Li, SZ, Poling, R, Smith, A, Stepaniak, CJ, Urheim, J, Ahmed, S, Alam, MS, Jian, L, Saleem, M, Wappler, F, Eckhart, E, Gan, KK, Gwon, C, Hart, T, Honscheid, K, Hufnagel, D, Kagan, H, Kass, R, Pedlar, TK, Thayer, JB, von Toerne, E, Wilksen, T, Zoeller, MM, Richichi, SJ, Severini, H, Skubic, P, Dytman, SA, Nam, S, Savinov, V, Chen, S, Hinson, JW, Lee, J, Miller, DH, Pavlunin, V, Shibata, EI, Shipsey, IPJ, Cronin-Hennessy, D, Lyon, AL, Park, CS, Park, W, Thorndike, EH, Coan, TE, Gao, YS, Liu, F, Maravin, Y, Narsky, I, Stroynowski, R, Ye, J, Artuso, M, Boulahouache, C, Bukin, K, Dambasuren, E, Mountain, R, Skwarnicki, T, Stone, S, Wang, JC, Mahmood, AH, Csorna, SE, Danko, I, Xu, Z, Bonvicini, G, Cinabro, D, Dubrovin, M, McGee, S, Bornheim, A, Lipeles, E, Pappas, SP, Shapiro, A, Sun, WM, Weinstein, AJ, Masek, G, Paar, HP, Mahapatra, R, Briere, RA, Chen, GP, Ferguson, T, Tatishvili, G, Vogel, H
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2003
Zdroj: Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 67(3)
ISSN: 0556-2821
Popis: In the standard model, the charged current of the weak interaction is governed by a unitary quark mixing matrix that also leads to CP violation. Measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements is essential to searches for new physics, either through the structure of the CKM matrix, or a departure from unitarity. We determine the CKM matrix element |Vcb| using a sample of 3 × 106 BB̄ events in the CLEO detector at the ornell Electron Storage Ring. We determine the yield of reconstructed B̄0 →D*+ℓv̄ and B-→D*0ℓv̄ decays as a function of w, the boost of the D* in the B rest frame, and from this we obtain the differential decay rate dΓ/dw. By extrapolating dΓ/dw to w = 1, the kinematic end point at which the D* is at rest relative to the B, we extract the product |Vcb|F(1), where F(1) is the form factor at w = 1. We find |Vcb|F(1) = 0.0431±0.0013(stat) ±0.0018(syst). We combine |Vcb|F(1) with theoretical results for F(1) to determine |Vcb| = 0.0469±0.0014(stat)±0.0020)syst)±0.0018(theor). We also integrate the differential decay rate over w to obtain B(B̄0→D*+ℓv̄) = (6.09±0.19±0.40)% and B(B-→D*0ℓv̄) = (6.50±0.20±0.43)%.
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