Measurement of the Branching Fraction of the Semileptonic Decay Anti-B0 ---> D*+ Mu- Anti-Muon-Neutrino in the BaBar Experiments

This thesis presents a measurement of the branching fraction for the exclusive semileptonic decay {bar B}{sup 0} {yields} D*{sup +}{mu}{sup -}{nu}{sub {mu}}. This decay is essentially the decay of a b quark to a c quark inside the meson with the release of a muon and neutrino, and it provides a very clean signal for measuring various B meson decay properties. the data for this measurement consist of 22.3 million B{bar B} pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1999-2000. The branching fraction is measured to be {Beta}({bar B}{sup 0} {yields} D*{sup +}{mu}{sup -}{bar {nu}}{sub {mu}}) = [4.72 {+-} 0.10 (data stat.) {+-} 0.06 (MC stat.) {+-} 0.20 (syst.) {+-} 0.17 (other {Beta})]%