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Measurements of B ->{pi,eta,eta '}l nu(l) branching fractions and determination of vertical bar V-ub vertical bar with semileptonically tagged B mesons

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BaBar Collaboration (Including:

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., Prudent, X., Tisserand, V., Tico, J. Garra, Grauges, E. et al.

). (2008) Measurements of B ->{pi,eta,eta '}l nu(l) branching fractions and determination of vertical bar V-ub vertical bar with semileptonically tagged B mesons. Physical Review Letters, Vol.101 (No.8). article no. 081801. ISSN 0031-9007

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.081801

Abstract

We report measurements of branching fractions for the decays B -> Pl nu(l), where P are the pseudoscalar charmless mesons pi(-), pi(0), eta and eta('), based on 348 fb(-1) of data collected with the BABAR detector, using B-0 and B+ mesons found in the recoil of a second B meson decaying as B -> D-(*())l nu(l). Assuming isospin symmetry, we combine pionic branching fractions to obtain B(B-0 -> pi(-)l(+)nu(l)) = (1.54 +/- 0.17((stat)) +/- 0.09((syst))) x 10(-4); we find 3.2 sigma evidence of the decay B+ -> eta l(+)nu(l) and measure its branching fraction to be (0.64 +/- 0.20((stat))+/- 0.03((syst)))x10(-4), and determine B(B+ -> eta'l(+)nu(l)) < 0.47 x 10(-4) to 90% confidence level. Using partial branching fractions for the pionic decays in ranges of the momentum transfer and a variety of form factor calculation, we obtain values of the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element vertical bar V-ub vertical bar in ranging from 3.6 x 10(-3) to 4.1 x 10(-3).

Item Type:

Journal Article

Subjects:

Q Science > QC Physics

Divisions:

Faculty of Science > Physics

Journal or Publication Title:

Physical Review Letters

Publisher:

American Physical Society

ISSN:

0031-9007