Determination of the form-factors for the decay and of the CKM matrix element
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18 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 77 (2008) 032002
e-Print:
- 0705.4008 [hep-ex]
Report number:
- SLAC-PUB-12511,
- BABAR-PUB-07-008
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present a combined measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element |V_{cb}| and of the parameters rho^2, R_1(1), and R_2(1), which fully characterize the form factors for the B0 -> D*- l+ nu_l decay in the framework of heavy-quark effective theory. The results, based on a selected sample of about 52,800 B0 -> D*- l+ nu_l decays, recorded by the BaBar detector, are rho2=1.157+-0.094+-0.027, R_1(1)=1.327+-0.131+-0.043, R_2(1)=0.859+-0.077+-0.021, and F(1)|V_cb|=(34.7+-0.4+-1.0)x10^-3. The first error is the statistical and the second is the systematic uncertainty. Combining these measurements with the previous BaBar measurement of the form factors, which employs a different fit technique on a partial sample of the data, we improve the statistical precision of the result, rho2=1.191+-0.048+-0.028, R_1(1)=1.429+-0.061+-0.044, R_2(1)=0.827+-0.038+-0.022, and F(1)|V_cb| = (34.4+-0.3+-1.1)x10^-3. Using lattice calculations for the axial form factor , we extract |V_cb| =(37.4+-0.3+-1.2+1.2-1.4)x10^-3, where the third error is due to the uncertainty in F(1). We also present a measurement of the exclusive branching fraction, B = (4.69+-0.04+-0.34)%.Note:
- 18 pages, 7 postscript figures
- 11.30.Er
- 13.25.Hw
- 12.15.Hh
- electron positron: colliding beams
- electron positron: annihilation
- Upsilon(10570): electroproduction
- B: pair production
- B0: semileptonic decay
- B0: branching ratio
- D*(2010)
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