Hadronic mass moments in inclusive semileptonic B meson decays

Collaboration
Aug, 2001
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 87 (2001) 251808
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CLNS-01-1752,
  • CLEO-01-17
Experiments:
  • CESR-CLEO-II

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We have measured the first and second moments of the hadronic mass-squared distribution in B -> X_c l nu, for P(lepton) > 1.5 GeV/c. We find = 0.251 +- 0.066 GeV^2, < (M_X^2 -)^2 > = 0.576 +- 0.170 GeV^4, where M_D[Bar] is the spin-averaged D meson mass. From that first moment and the first moment of the photon energy spectrum in b -> s gamma, we find the HQET parameter lambda_1 (MS[Bar], to order 1/M^3 and beta_0 alpha_s^2) to be -0.24 +- 0.11 GeV^2. Using these first moments and the B semileptonic width, and assuming parton-hadron duality, we obtain |V_cb| = 0.0404 +- 0.0013.
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • Upsilon(10570): electroproduction
  • B: pair production
  • B: semileptonic decay
  • B: width
  • hadron: mass spectrum
  • bottom
  • quark: radiative decay
  • photon: energy spectrum