Cg. Boyd et al., MODEL-INDEPENDENT EXTRACTION OF VERTICAL-BAR-V-CB-VERTICAL-BAR USING DISPERSION-RELATIONS, Physics letters. Section B, 353(2-3), 1995, pp. 306-312
We present a method for parametrizing heavy meson semileptonic form fa
ctors using dispersion relations, and from it produce a two-parameter
description of the B --> B elastic form factor. We use heavy quark sym
metry to relate this function to (B) over bar --> Dl (v) over bar for
m factors, and extract \V-cb\ = 0.037(-0.002)(+0.003) from experimenta
l data with a least squares fit. Our method eliminates model-dependent
uncertainties inherent in choosing a parametrization for the extrapor
ation of the differential decay rate to threshold. The method also all
ows a description of (B) over bar --> Dl (v) over bar form factors acc
urate to 1% in terms of two parameters.