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Measurements of |Vcb|, form factors and branching fractions in the decays B̄0 → D*+- and B̄0 → D+-

  • D. Buskulic
  • , I. de Bonis
  • , D. Decamp
  • , P. Ghez
  • , C. Goy
  • , J. P. Lees
  • , A. Lucotte
  • , M. N. Minard
  • , J. Y. Nief
  • , P. Odier
  • , B. Pietrzyk
  • , M. P. Casado
  • , M. Chmeissani
  • , P. Comas
  • , J. M. Crespo
  • , M. Delfino
  • , I. Efthymiopoulos
  • , E. Fernandez
  • , M. Fernandez-Bosman
  • , L. I. Garrido
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  • University of São Paulo
  • Florida State University
  • University of Barcelona
  • INFN Sezione di Bari
  • University of Heidelberg
  • INFN Sezione di Catania
  • Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • c/o DESY
  • Dragon Systems, Inc
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
  • Université Blaise Pascal
  • Niels Bohr Institutet
  • NCSR Demokritos
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  • Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
  • Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • CEA/UVSQ/CNRS
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
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  • Universität Siegen
  • University of Trieste
  • University of Washington
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Harvard University
  • Rutgers University–New Brunswick

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Abstract

Two samples of exclusive semileptonic decays, 579 B̄0 → D*+- events and 261 B̄0 → D+- events, are selected from approximately 3.9 million hadronic Z decays collected by the ALEPH detector at LEP. From the reconstructed differential decay rate of each sample, the product of the hadronic form factor ℱ(ω) at zero recoil of the D(*)+ meson and the CKM matrix element |Vcb| are measured to be ℱD*+(1)|Vcb| = (31.9 ± 1.8stat ± 1.9syst) × 10-3, ℱD+(1)|Vcb| = (27.8 ± 6.8stat ± 6.5syst) × 10-3. The ratio of the form factors ℱD+(1) and ℱD*+ (1) is measured to be ℱD+(1)/ℱD*+ (1) = 0.87 ± 0.22stat ± 0.21syst. A value of |Vcb| is extracted from the two samples, using theoretical constraints on the slope and curvature of the hadronic form factors and their normalization at zero recoil, with the result |Vcb| = (34.4 ± 1.6stat ± 2.3syst ± 1.4th) × 10-3. The branching fractions are measured from the two integrated spectra to be Br(B̄0 → D*+-) = (5.53 ± 0.26stat ± 0.52syst)%,Br(B̄0 → D+-) = (2.35 ± 0.20stat ± 0.445syst)%.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)373-387
Number of pages15
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume395
Issue number3-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Mar 1997
Externally publishedYes

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