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A novel method of reconstructing semileptonic $B$ decays

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2018-05-01 v3

Abstract

Semileptonic decays of charged and neutral BB mesons play a critical role in the determination of the magnitudes of the CKM-matrix elements VcbV_{cb} and VubV_{ub}, and in the test of the lepton universality which is a basic assumption of the Standard Model. Due to the missing neutrino in the semileptonic decays, the measurements depend strongly on the tag efficiency of the BB meson in the recoil side which is at a few per mille to a few per cent level, and this values a limiting factor for high precision measurement and high sensitivity test mentioned above. We develop a novel method of reconstructing semileptonic decays of the BB mesons by introducing the BB momentum information calculated from the BB decay vertex and the interaction point, as well as the kinematic information of e+eBBe^{+}e^{-}\to B\overline{B} at the BB-factories such as BaBar, Belle, and Belle II. As this method does not depend on the reconstruction of the BB meson in the recoil side, the gain in the efficiency could be as large as two orders of magnitudes. This makes high precision measurement of CKM-matrix elements Vcb|V_{cb}| and Vub|V_{ub}| and high precision test of lepton universality at BB-factories more promising. We present the algorithms for the semileptonic decays of neutral and charged BB mesons separately, as they are affected by the magnetic field in the detector differently.

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@article{arxiv.1804.08088,
  title  = {A novel method of reconstructing semileptonic $B$ decays},
  author = {Long-Ke Li and Chang-Zheng Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.08088},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures

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