Moments of the B meson inclusive semileptonic decay rate using neutrino reconstruction Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present a measurement of the composition of B meson inclusive semileptonic decays using 9.4 [Formula Presented] of [Formula Presented] data taken with the CLEO detector at the [Formula Presented] resonance. In addition to measuring the charged lepton kinematics, the neutrino four-vector is inferred using the hermiticity of the detector. We perform a maximum likelihood fit over the full three-dimensional differential decay distribution for the fractional contributions from the [Formula Presented] processes with [Formula Presented] [Formula Presented] [Formula Presented] and nonresonant [Formula Presented] and the process [Formula Presented] From the fit results we extract the first and second moments of the [Formula Presented] and [Formula Presented] distributions with minimum lepton-energy requirements of 1.0 GeV and 1.5 GeV. We find [Formula Presented] with a minimum lepton energy of 1.0 GeV and [Formula Presented] with minimum lepton energy of 1.5 GeV. The uncertainties are from statistics, detector systematic effects, and model dependence, respectively. As a test of the HQET and OPE calculations, the results for the [Formula Presented] moment as a function of the minimum lepton energy requirement are compared to the predictions. 2004 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW D

author list (cited authors)

  • Csorna, S. E., Bonvicini, G., Cinabro, D., Dubrovin, M., Bornheim, A., Lipeles, E., ... Mahmood, A. H.

citation count

  • 37

complete list of authors

  • Csorna, SE||Bonvicini, G||Cinabro, D||Dubrovin, M||Bornheim, A||Lipeles, E||Pappas, SP||Shapiro, A||Weinstein, AJ||Briere, RA||Chen, GP||Ferguson, T||Tatishvili, G||Vogel, H||Watkins, ME||Adam, NE||Alexander, JP||Berkelman, K||Boisvert, V||Cassel, DG||Duboscq, JE||Ecklund, KM||Ehrlich, R||Galik, RS||Gibbons, L||Gittelman, B||Gray, SW||Hartill, DL||Heltsley, BK||Hsu, L||Jones, CD||Kandaswamy, J||Kreinick, DL||Kuznetsov, VE||Magerkurth, A||Mahlke-Kruger, H||Meyer, TO||Patterson, JR||Pedlar, TK||Peterson, D||Pivarski, J||Riley, D||Sadoff, AJ||Schwarthoff, H||Shepherd, MR||Sun, WM||Thayer, JG||Urner, D||Wilksen, T||Weinberger, M||Athar, SB||Avery, P||Breva-Newell, L||Potlia, V||Stoeck, H||Yelton, J||Eisenstein, BI||Gollin, GD||Karliner, I||Lowrey, N||Naik, P||Sedlack, C||Selen, M||Thaler, JJ||Williams, J||Edwards, KW||Besson, D||Gao, KY||Gong, DT||Kubota, Y||Li, SZ||Poling, R||Scott, AW||Smith, A||Stepaniak, CJ||Urheim, J||Metreveli, Z||Seth, KK||Tomaradze, A||Zweber, P||Ernst, J||Arms, K||Eckhart, E||Gan, KK||Gwon, C||Severini, H||Skubic, P||Asner, DM||Dytman, SA||Mehrabyan, S||Mueller, JA||Nam, S||Savinov, V||Huang, GS||Miller, DH||Pavlunin, V||Sanghi, B||Shibata, EI||Shipsey, IPJ||Adams, GS||Chasse, M||Cummings, JP||Danko, I||Napolitano, J||Cronin-Hennessy, D||Park, CS||Park, W||Thayer, JB||Thorndike, EH||Coan, TE||Gao, YS||Liu, F||Stroynowski, R||Artuso, M||Boulahouache, C||Blusk, S||Butt, J||Dambasuren, E||Dorjkhaidav, O||Haynes, J||Menaa, N||Mountain, R||Muramatsu, H||Nandakumar, R||Redjimi, R||Sia, R||Skwarnicki, T||Stone, S||Wang, JC||Zhang, K||Mahmood, AH

publication date

  • August 2004