Measurement of the inclusive semileptonic branching fraction of B mesons and |Vcb|

K. Abe, K. Abe, T. Abe, I. Adachi, S. A. Byoung, H. Aihara, M. Akatsu, Y. Asano, T. Aso, V. Aulchenko, T. Aushev, A. M. Bakich, Y. Ban, E. Banas, A. Bay, I. Bedny, P. K. Behera, A. Bondar, A. Bozek, M. BrackoJ. Brodzicka, T. E. Browder, B. C.K. Casey, P. Chang, Y. Chao, B. G. Cheon, R. Chistov, S. K. Choi, Y. Choi, M. Danilov, L. Y. Dong, A. Drutskoy, S. Eidelman, V. Eiges, Y. Enari, F. Fang, C. Fukunaga, N. Gabyshev, A. Garmash, T. Gershon, B. Golob, K. Gotow, R. Guo, K. Hanagaki, F. Handa, K. Hara, T. Hara, N. C. Hastings, H. Hayashii, M. Hazumi, E. M. Heenan, I. Higuchi, T. Higuchi, T. Hojo, T. Hokuue, Y. Hoshi, S. R. Hou, W. S. Hou, S. C. Hsu, H. C. Huang, T. Igaki, Y. Igarashi, T. Iijima, K. Inami, A. Ishikawa, H. Ishino, R. Itoh, H. Iwasaki, Y. Iwasaki, H. K. Jang, H. Kakuno, J. Kaneko, J. H. Kang, J. S. Kang, P. Kapusta, S. U. Kataoka, N. Katayama, H. Kawai, Y. Kawakami, N. Kawamura, T. Kawasaki, H. Kichimi, D. W. Kim, K. Heejong, H. J. Kim, H. O. Kim, K. Hyunwoo, S. K. Kim, T. H. Kim, K. Kinoshita, S. Kobayashi, P. Krokovny, R. Kulasiri, S. Kumar, A. Kuzmin, Y. J. Kwon, J. S. Lange, G. Leder, S. H. Lee, J. Li, A. Limosani, D. Liventsev, R. S. Lu, J. MacNaughton, G. Majumder, F. Mandl, T. Matsuishi, S. Matsumoto, T. Matsumoto, Y. Mikami, W. Mitaroff, K. Miyabayashi, Y. Miyabayashi, H. Miyake, H. Miyata, G. R. Moloney, T. Mori, T. Nagamine, Y. Nagasaka, T. Nakadaira, E. Nakano, M. Nakao, J. W. Nam, Z. Natkaniec, K. Neichi, S. Nishida, O. Nitoh, S. Noguchi, T. Nozaki, S. Ogawa, F. Ohno, T. Ohshima, T. Okabe, S. Okuno, S. L. Olsen, W. Ostrowicz, H. Ozaki, P. Pakhlov, H. Palka, C. W. Park, H. Park, K. S. Park, L. S. Peak, J. P. Perroud, M. Peters, L. E. Piilonen, F. J. Ronga, N. Root, K. Rybicki, H. Sagawa, S. Saitoh, Y. Sakai, H. Sakamoto, M. Satapathy, A. Satpathy, O. Schneider, C. Schwanda, S. Semenov, K. Senyo, M. E. Sevior, H. Shibuya, M. Shimoyama, B. Shwartz, V. Sidorov, J. B. Singh, S. Stanič, A. Sugi, A. Sugiyama, K. Sumisawa, T. Sumiyoshi, K. Suzuki, S. Suzuki, S. Y. Suzuki, S. K. Swain, T. Takahashi, F. Takasaki, K. Tamai, N. Tamura, J. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, G. N. Taylor, Y. Teramoto, S. Tokuda, M. Tomoto, T. Tomura, S. N. Tovey, K. Trabelsi, T. Tsuboyama, T. Tsukamoto, S. Uehara, K. Ueno, Y. Unno, S. Uno, Y. Ushiroda, K. E. Varvell, C. C. Wang, C. H. Wang, J. G. Wang, M. Z. Wang, Y. Watanabe, E. Won, B. D. Yabsley, Y. Yamada, A. Yamaguchi, Y. Yamashita, M. Yamauchi, J. Yashima, K. Yoshida, Y. Yuan, Y. Yusa, C. C. Zhang, J. Zhang, Z. P. Zhang, Y. Zheng, V. Zhilich, Z. M. Zhu, D. Žontar

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Abstract

We present a measurement of the electron spectrum from inclusive semileptonic B decay, using 5.1 fb-1 of γ(4S) data collected with the Belle detector. A high-momentum lepton tag was used to separate the semileptonic B decay electrons from secondary decay electrons. We obtained the branching fraction, β(B → Xe+v) = (10.90 ± 0.12 ± 0.49)%, with minimal model dependence. From this measurement, we derive a value for the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element |Vcb|= 0.0408 ± 0.0010(exp) ± 0.0025(th).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)181-192
Number of pages12
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume547
Issue number3-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2002 Nov 7

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We wish to thank the KEKB accelerator group for the excellent operation of the KEKB accelerator. We acknowledge support from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; the Australian Research Council and the Australian Department of Industry, Science and Resources; the National Science Foundation of China under contract No. 10175071; the Department of Science and Technology of India; the BK21 program of the Ministry of Education of Korea and the CHEP SRC program of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation and the Center for High Energy Physics sponsored by the KOSEF and the Yonsei University Faculty Research Support program; the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research under contract No. 2P03B 17017; the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation; the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia; the National Science Council and the Ministry of Education of Taiwan; and the US Department of Energy.

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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