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Semileptonic B Decays at BABAR

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2010-11-23 v1

Abstract

We present results on semileptonic B decays obtained with the BABAR detector. The large data set accumulated at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B-Factory allows a new measurement technique, where the hadronic decay of one B meson is fully reconstructed and the semileptonic decay of the recoiling B meson is studied. Traditional analysis techniques of inclusive and exclusive B decays complement this approach with very high statistics data samples. These measurements play an important role in the tests of the description of CP violation in the Standard Model: The determinations of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements |Vcb| and |Vub| provide constraints on the unitarity of the CKM triangle. Furthermore, the experimental measurement of parameters of Heavy Quark Effective Theory test the consistency of the theoretical description of semileptonic B decays.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0402018,
  title  = {Semileptonic B Decays at BABAR},
  author = {Urs Langenegger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0402018},
  year   = {2010}
}

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