https://doi.org/10.1140/epjcd/s2003-03-107-4
PS01 Heavy Flavour Physics
Inclusive semileptonic B decays at BABAR
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94309, USA
Received:
31
October
2003
Accepted:
10
November
2003
Published online:
26
November
2003
We report updates on two analyses of inclusive semileptonic B decays based on a dataset of 89 million events recorded with the BABAR detector at the Υ(4S) resonance. Events are selected by fully reconstructing the decay of one B meson and identifying a charged lepton from the decay of the other
meson. In the first analysis, the measurement of the first and second moment of the hadronic mass distribution in Cabibbo-favored
decays allows for the determination of the nonperturbative parameters
and λ
1 of Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) and |V
cb
|. In the second analysis, the hadronic mass distribution is used to measure the inclusive charmless semileptonic branching fraction and to determine |V
ub
|.
PACS: 13.20.He Decays of beauty mesons – 12.39.Hg Heavy quark effective theory
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