FIRST MEASUREMENT OF THE B-]PI-L-NU AND B-]RHO(OMEGA)L-NU BRANCHING FRACTIONS

Authors
ALEXANDER JP BEBEK C BERGER BE BERKELMAN K BLOOM K CASSEL DG CHO HA COFFMAN DM CROWCROFT DS DICKSON M DRELL PS DUMAS DJ EHRLICH R ELIA R GAIDAREV P GITTELMAN B GRAY SW HARTILL DL HELTSLEY BK JONES CD JONES SL KANDASWAMY J KATAYAMA N KIM PC KREINICK DL LEE T LIU Y LUDWIG GS MASUI J MEVISSEN J MISTRY NB NG CR NORDBERG E PATTERSON JR PETERSON D RILEY D SOFFER A WARD C AVERY P PRESCOTT C YANG S YELTON J BRANDENBURG G BRIERE RA LIU T SAULNIER M WILSON R YAMAMOTO H BROWDER TE LI F RODRIGUEZ JL BERGFELD T EISENSTEIN BI ERNST J GLADDING GE GOLLIN GD KARLINER I PALMER M SELEN M THALER JJ EDWARDS KW OGG M BELLERIVE A BRITTON DI JANICEK R MACFARLANE DB MCLEAN KW PATEL PM SADOFF AJ AMMAR R BARINGER P BEAN A BESSON D COPPAGE D COPTY N DAVIS R HANCOCK N KOTOV S KRAVCHENKO I KWAK N ANDERSON S KUBOTA Y LATTERY M ONEILL JJ PATTON S POLING R RIEHLE T SAVINOV V SMITH A ALAM MS ATHAR SB KIM IJ LING Z MAHMOOD AH SEVERINI H TIMM S WAPPLER F DUBOSCQ JE FUJINO D FULTON R GAN KK HONSCHEID K KAGAN H KASS R LEE J SUNG M UNDRUS A WANKE R WHITE C WOLF A ZOELLER MM NEMATI B RICHICHI SJ ROSS WR SKUBIC P WOOD M BISHAI M FAST J GERNDT E HINSON JW MILLER DH SHIBATA EI SHIPSEY IPJ YURKO M BATTLE M GIBBONS L JOHNSON SD KWON Y ROBERTS S SPARKS K THORNDIKE EH JESSOP CP LINGEL K MARSISKE H PERL ML SCHAFFNER SF WANG R COAN TE FADEYEV V KOROLKOV I MARAVIN Y NARSKY I SHELKOV V STAECK J STROYNOWSKI R VOLOBOUEV I YE J ARTUSO M EFIMOV A GAO M GOLDBERG M GREENE R HE D KOPP S MONETI GC MOUNTAIN R MUKHIN Y SKWARNICKI T STONE S XING X BARTELT J CSORNA SE JAIN V MARKA S FREYBERGER A GIBAUT D KINOSHITA K LAI IC POMIANOWSKI P SCHRENK S BONVICINI G CINABRO D BARISH B CHADHA M CHAN S EIGEN G MILLER JS OGRADY C SCHMIDTLER M URHEIM J WEINSTEIN AJ WURTHWEIN F ASNER DM ATHANAS M BLISS DW BROWER WS MASEK G PAAR HP GRONBERG J KORTE CM KUTSCHKE R LANGE DJ MENARY S MORRISON RJ NAKANISHI S NELSON HN NELSON TK QIAO C RICHMAN JD ROBERTS D RYD A TAJIMA H WITHERELL MS BALEST R BEHRENS BH CHO K FORD WT LOHNER M PARK H RANKIN P ROY J SMITH JG
Citation
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
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
77
Issue
25
Year of publication
1996
Pages
5000 - 5004
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1996)77:25<5000:FMOTBA>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
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).