Exclusive semileptonic B decays to radially excited D mesons

Exclusive semileptonic B decays to radially excited charmed mesons are investigated at the first order of the heavy quark expansion. The arising leading and subleading Isgur-Wise functions are calculated in the framework of the relativistic quark model. It is found that the 1/m_Q corrections play an important role and substantially modify results. An interesting interplay between different corrections is found. As a result the branching ratio for the B-> D'e\nu decay is essentially increased by 1/m_Q corrections, while the one for B-> D*'e\nu is only slightly influenced by them.

B: semileptonic decay
decay: exclusive reaction
D: excited state
D: mass
HQET model
quark: relativistic
Isgur-Wise function
B: branching ratio
B: width
Feynman graph

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