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New CLEO Results for |V_cb| and |V_ub|

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-08-14 v1

Abstract

We report recent measurements from CLEO of the first two moments of the photon energy spectrum for b -> s gamma decays and the hadronic recoil mass in B -> X_c l nu. These physical quantities allow one to fix non-perturbative parameters occurring in calculations based on HQET and QCD. Predictions for semileptonic decay rates within this same framework depend in addition on the CKM matrix elements V_qq' governing quark mixing. We can thus extract |V_cb| from the inclusive semileptonic decay rate of B mesons, and |V_ub| from the lepton endpoint spectrum of B -> X_u l nu. Model dependence is reduced except for the assumption of quark-hadron duality. Finally, we update the classic measurement of |V_cb| from B -> D* l nu at zero recoil.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0202029,
  title  = {New CLEO Results for |V_cb| and |V_ub|},
  author = {Roy A. Briere},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0202029},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

To appear in the Proceedings of the 9th Int'l Symposium on Heavy Flavor Physics; some references updated here