Jp. Alexander et al., FIRST MEASUREMENT OF THE B-]PI-L-NU AND B-]RHO(OMEGA)L-NU BRANCHING FRACTIONS, Physical review letters, 77(25), 1996, pp. 5000-5004
CLEO has studied B decays to pi l nu, rho l nu, and omega l nu, where
l = e or mu, by incorporating the missing momentum into full B reconst
ruction. With the B-0 and B+ modes combined according to isospin predi
ctions for the relative partial widths, we obtain B(B-0 --> pi(-)l(+)n
u) = (1.8 +/- 0.4 +/- 0.3 +/- 0.2) x 10(-4) and B(B-0 --> rho(-)l(+)nu
) = (2.5 +/- 0.4(0.7)(+0.5) +/- 0.5) x 10(-4), where the errors are st
atistical, systematic, and the estimated model dependence. We also est
imate \V-ub\ = (3.3 +/- 0.2(-0.4)(+0.3) +/- 0.7) x 10(-3).