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Heavy Quark Parameters and Vcb from Spectral Moments in Semileptonic B Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-01-25 v1

Abstract

We extract the heavy quark masses and non-perturbative parameters from the Delphi preliminary measurements of the first three moments of the charged lepton energy and hadronic mass distributions in semileptonic B decays, using a multi-parameter fit. We adopt two formalisms, one of which does not rely on a 1/mc expansion and makes use of running quark masses. The data are consistent and the level of accuracy of the experimental inputs largely determines the present sensitivity. The results allow to improve on the uncertainty in the extraction of Vcb.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0210319,
  title  = {Heavy Quark Parameters and Vcb from Spectral Moments in Semileptonic B Decays},
  author = {M. Battaglia and M. Calvi and P. Gambino and A. Oyanguren and P. Roudeau and L. Salmi and J. Salt and A. Stocchi and N. Uraltsev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0210319},
  year   = {2011}
}

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13 pages, 2 figures