Measurement of the B -> Dl nu branching fractions and form factor

Authors
Bartelt, J Csorna, SE McLean, KW Marka, S Xu, Z Godang, R Kinoshita, K Lai, IC Pomianowski, P Schrenk, S Bonvicini, G Cinabro, D Greene, R Perera, LP Zhou, GJ Chan, S Eigen, G Lipeles, E Miller, JS Schmidtler, M Shapiro, A Sun, WM Urheim, J Weinstein, AJ Wurthwein, F Jaffe, DE Masek, G Paar, HP Potter, EM Prell, S Sharma, V Asner, DM Gronberg, J Hill, TS Lange, DJ Morrison, RJ Nelson, HN Nelson, TK Roberts, D Behrens, BH Ford, WT Gritsan, A Krieg, H Roy, J Smith, JG Alexander, JP Baker, R Bebek, C Berger, BE Berkelman, K Boisvert, V Cassel, DG Crowcroft, DS Dickson, M von Dombrowski, S Drell, PS Ecklund, KM Ehrlich, R Foland, AD Gaidarev, P Gibbons, L Gittelman, B Gray, SW Hartill, DL Heltsley, BK Hopman, PI Kandaswamy, J Kreinick, DL Lee, T Liu, Y Mistry, NB Ng, CR Nordberg, E Ogg, M Patterson, JR Peterson, D Riley, D Soffer, A Valant-Spaight, B Warburton, A Ward, C Athanas, M Avery, P Jones, CD Lohner, M Prescott, C Rubiera, AI Yelton, J Zheng, J Brandenburg, G Briere, RA Ershov, A Gao, YS Kim, DYJ Wilson, R Yamamoto, H Browder, TE Li, Y Rodriguez, JL Sahu, SK Bergfeld, T Eisenstein, BI Ernst, J Gladding, GE Gollin, GD Hans, RM Johnson, E Karliner, I Marsh, MA Palmer, M Selen, M Thaler, JJ Edwards, KW Bellerive, A Janicek, R Patel, PM Sadoff, AJ Ammar, R Baringer, P Bean, A Besson, D Coppage, D Darling, C Davis, R Kotov, S Kravchenko, I Kwak, N Zhou, L Anderson, S Kubota, Y Lee, SJ Mahapatra, R O'Neill, JJ Poling, R Riehle, T Smith, A Alam, MS Athar, SB Ling, Z Mahmood, AH Timm, S Wappler, F Anastassov, A Duboscq, JE Gan, KK Hart, T Honscheid, K Kagan, H Kass, R Lee, J Schwarthoff, H Wolf, A Zoeller, MM Richichi, SJ Severini, H Skubic, P Undrus, A Bishai, M Chen, S Fast, J Hinson, JW Menon, N Miller, DH Shibata, EI Shipsey, IPJ Glenn, S Kwon, Y Lyon, AL Roberts, S Thorndike, EH Jessop, CP Lingel, K Marsiske, H Perl, ML Savinov, V Ugolini, D Zhou, X Coan, TE Fadeyev, V Korolkov, I Maravin, Y Narsky, I Stroynowski, R Ye, J Wlodek, T Artuso, M Dambasuren, E Kopp, S Moneti, GC Mountain, R Schuh, S Skwarnicki, T Stone, S Titov, A Viehhauser, G Wang, JC
Citation
J. Bartelt et al., Measurement of the B -> Dl nu branching fractions and form factor, PHYS REV L, 82(19), 1999, pp. 3746-3750
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
82
Issue
19
Year of publication
1999
Pages
3746 - 3750
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(19990510)82:19<3746:MOTB-D>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Using a sample of 3.3 x 10(6) B-meson decays collected with the CLEO detect or at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we have studied B- --> D(0)l(-)<(n u)over bar> and (B) over bar(0) --> D(+)l(-)<(nu)over bar> decays, where l( -) can be either e(-) or mu(-). We distinguish B --> Dl nu from other B sem ileptonic decays by examining the net momentum and energy of the particles recoiling against D - l pairs. We find Gamma(B --> Dl nu) = (14.1 +/- 1.0 /- 1.2) ns(-1) and derive branching fractions for B- --> D(0)l(-)<(nu)over bar> and (B) over bar(0) --> D(+)l(-)<(nu)over bar> of (2.32 +/- 0.17 +/- 0 .20)% and (2.20 +/- 0.16 +/- 0.19)%, respectively, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic. We also investigate the B --> Dl nu form fa ctor and the implication of the result for \V-cb\.