Exclusive and inclusive semileptonic decays ofB mesons toD mesons
Author(s) -
R. Fulton,
T. Jensen,
D. Johnson,
H. Kagan,
R. Kass,
F. Morrow,
J. Whitmore,
P. Wilson,
D. Bortoletto,
W. -Y. Chen,
J. Dominick,
R. L. McIlwain,
D. H. Miller,
C. R. Ng,
S. F. Schaffner,
E. I. Shibata,
I. P. J. Shipsey,
W.-M. Yao,
M. Battle,
K. Sparks,
E. H. Thorndike,
C. H. Wang,
M. S. Alam,
I. J. Kim,
W. C. Li,
V. Romero,
C. R. Sun,
P. -N. Wang,
M. M. Zoeller,
M. Goldberg,
T. Haupt,
N. Horwitz,
V. Jain,
M. D. Mestayer,
G. C. Moneti,
Y. Rozen,
P. Rubin,
V. Sharma,
T. Skwarnicki,
M. Thulasidas,
G. Zhu,
S. E. Csorna,
T. Letson,
J. P. Alexander,
M. Artuso,
C. Bebek,
K. Berkelman,
T. E. Browder,
D. G. Cassel,
E. Cheu,
D. M. Coffman,
G. Crawford,
J. W. DeWire,
P. S. Drell,
R. Ehrlich,
R. S. Galik,
M. Garcia-Sciveres,
B. Geiser,
B. Gittelman,
S. W. Gray,
A. M. Halling,
D. L. Hartill,
B. K. Heltsley,
K. Honscheid,
J. Kandaswamy,
N. Katayama,
D. L. Kreinick,
J. D. Lewis,
G. S. Ludwig,
J. Masui,
J. Mevissen,
N. B. Mistry,
S. Nandi,
E. Nordberg,
C. P. O’Grady,
D. Peterson,
M. Pisharody,
D. Riley,
M. Sapper,
M. Selen,
A. Silverman,
S. Stone,
H. M. Worden,
M. Worris,
A. J. Sadoff,
P. Avery,
D. Besson,
L. Garren,
J. Yelton,
K. Kinoshita,
F. M. Pipkin,
M. Procario,
Richard Wilson,
J. Wolinski,
D. Xiao,
Y. Zhu,
R. Ammar,
P. Baringer,
D. Coppage,
R. Davis,
Peter J. Haas,
N. Kwak,
H. Lam,
S. R. Ro,
Y. Kubota,
JJ Nelson,
D. Perticone,
R. Poling
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
physical review. d. particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/physical review. d. particles and fields
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1089-4918
pISSN - 0556-2821
DOI - 10.1103/physrevd.43.651
Subject(s) - physics , meson , branching fraction , particle physics , semileptonic decay , b meson , nuclear physics , lepton , electron
We report new measurements of the branching fractions {ital B}({ital B}{sup {minus}}{r arrow}{ital D}{sup 0}{ital l{minus}}{bar {nu}}), {ital B}({ital {bar B}}{sup 0}{r arrow}{ital D}{sup +}{ital l{minus}}{bar {nu}}), and {ital B}({ital B}{sup {minus}}{r arrow}{ital D}{sup *0}{ital l{minus}}{bar {nu}}). Combining these results with our previous measurement of {ital B}({ital {bar B}}{sup 0}{r arrow}{ital D}{sup *+}{ital l{minus}}{bar {nu}}), we find that the ratio of semileptonic widths for final states with a vector meson and pseudoscalar meson is (2.6{sub {minus}0.6{minus}0.8}{sup +1.1+1.0}) and the ratio of charged- to neutral-{ital B}-meson lifetimes is (0.89{plus minus}0.19{plus minus}0.13)({ital f}{sub 00}/{ital f}{sub +{minus}}) where ({ital f}{sub 00}/{ital f}{sub +{minus}}) is the ratio of neutral- to charged-{ital B}-meson production at the {Upsilon}(4{ital S}). From the {ital {bar B}}{r arrow}{ital Dl}{sup {minus}}{bar {nu}} branching fraction, we calculate {vert bar}{ital V}{sub {ital c}{ital b}}{vert bar}=0.040{plus minus}0.006 {plus minus}0.006, where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic and dominated by the uncertainty in the {ital B}-meson lifetime.
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