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Semileptonic decays in the limit of a heavy daughter quark

The rate of the semileptonic decay b to c l v is calculated with order alphas^2 accuracy, as an expansion around the limit of equal masses of the b and c quarks. Recent results obtained around the limit of the c-quark much lighter than b…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew Dowling , Jan H. Piclum , Andrzej Czarnecki

A model independent determination of $|V_{ub}|$ using the global $q^2$ dependence of the dispersive bounds on the $B\to\pi l\nu$ form factors

We propose a method to determine the CKM matrix element $|V_{ub}|$ using the global $q^2$ dependence of the dispersive bound on the form factors for $B\to \pi l\nu$ decay. Since the lattice calculation of the $B\to \pi l\nu$ form factor is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 Masaru Fukunaga , Tetsuya Onogi

Preliminary Results on |V_ub| from Inclusive Semileptonic B Decays with Neutrino Reconstruction

We present an analysis of the composition of inclusive semileptonic B meson decays using 9.4/fb of e+ e- data taken with the CLEO detector at the Upsilon(4S) resonance. In addition to measuring the charged lepton kinematics, the neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bornheim , CLEO Collaboration

Combined nonrelativistic constituent quark model and heavy quark effective theory study of semileptonic decays of \Lambda_b and \Xi_b baryons

We present the results of a nonrelativistic constituent quark model study of the semileptonic decays $\Lambda_b^0 \to \Lambda_c^+ l^- {\bar \nu}_l$ and $\Xi_b^0 \to \Xi_c^+ l^- {\bar \nu}_l$. We work on coordinate space, with baryon wave…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Albertus , E. Hernandez , J. Nieves

One-Particle Inclusive Semi-Leptonic B decays

We propose a method for a QCD based calculation of one-particle inclusive decays of the form B \to \bar D X or B \to \bar D^* X. It is based on the heavy mass limit and a short distance expansion of the amplitudes, which yield a power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Balzereit , T. Mannel

Determination of |V_ub| from Measurements of the Inclusive Charmless Semileptonic Partial Rates of B Mesons using Full Reconstruction Tags

We present a measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element |V_ub|, based on 253 fb^-1 of data collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB e^+e^- asymmetric collider. Events are tagged by fully reconstructing one of the B…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Belle Collaboration , I. Bizjak

Connections Between Inclusive and Exclusive Semileptonic B Decay

B decay sum rules relate exclusive B semileptonic decay matrix elements to forward B-meson matrix elements of operators in HQET. At leading order the operators that occur are the b-quark kinetic energy $\lambda_1$ and chromomagnetic energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Mark B. Wise

Semileptonic b --> u decays: lepton invariant mass spectrum

We compute O(alpha_s^2) QCD corrections to the lepton invariant mass spectrum in the decay b --> u l nu_l, relevant for the determination of the CKM matrix element |V_{ub}|. Our method can also be used to evaluate moments of the lepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-23 Andrzej Czarnecki , Kirill Melnikov

Approaches to inclusive semileptonic $B_{(s)}$-meson decays from Lattice QCD

We address the nonperturbative calculation of the inclusive decay rate of semileptonic $B_{(s)}$-meson decays from lattice QCD. Precise Standard-Model predictions are key ingredients in searches for new physics, and this type of computation…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-07-26 Alessandro Barone , Shoji Hashimoto , Andreas Jüttner , Takashi Kaneko , Ryan Kellermann

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

We present a measurement of the electron spectrum from inclusive semileptonic {\it B} decay, using 5.1 fb$^{-1}$ of $\Upsilon(4S)$ data collected with the Belle detector. A high-momentum lepton tag was used to separate the semileptonic {\it…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The Belle collaboration

Evaluation of CKM matrix elements from exclusive $P_{\ell 4}$ decays

We consider the exclusive $P_{\ell 4}$ decays, $P\to (P_1P_2)_V\ell \nu_{\ell}$, where the subindex $V$ means that the invariant mass of the pseudoscalar pair is taken within a small window around the mass of the vector meson $V$. Pole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-19 C. S. Kim , G. López Castro , S. L. Tostado

Measurement of the form factors of the decay B0 -> D*- ell+ nu and determination of the CKM matrix element |Vcb|

This article describes a determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $|V_{cb}|$ from the decay $B^0\to D^{*-}\ell^+\nu_\ell$ using 711 fb$^{-1}$ of Belle data collected near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance. We simultaneously…

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Weak nonleptonic decays of vector B-mesons

We study the radiative and weak nonleptonic decays of vector B-mesons within the covariant confined quark model (CCQM) developed in our previous papers. First, we calculate the matrix elements and decays widths of the radiative decays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-08 Mikhail A. Ivanov , Zhomart Tyulemissov , Akmaral Tyulemissova

Extraction of $|V_{cd}|$ and $|V_{cs}|$ from experimental decay rates using lattice QCD $D \to \pi(K) \ell \nu$ form factors

We present a determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements $|V_{cd}|$ and $|V_{cs}|$ obtained by combining the momentum dependence of the semileptonic vector form factors $f_+^{D \to \pi}(q^2)$ and $f_+^{D \to K}(q^2)$,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-08-01 L. Riggio , G. Salerno , S. Simula

Determination of $|V_{cb}|$ using N$^3$LO perturbative corrections to $\Gamma(B \to X_c \ell \nu)$ and 1S masses

We determine $|V_{cb}|$ using the third-order perturbative series for the inclusive semileptonic $B$ decay width and for the masses of the bottomonium 1S states. We use the masses of $\eta_b(1S)$ and $\Upsilon(1S)$ as short-distance masses…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-20 Yuuki Hayashi , Yukinari Sumino , Hiromasa Takaura

$B\to\pi\ell\nu$ semileptonic form factors from unquenched lattice QCD and determination of $|V_{ub}|$

We compute the $B\to\pi\ell\nu$ semileptonic form factors and update the determination of the CKM matrix element $|V_{ub}|$. We use the MILC asqtad ensembles with $N_f=2+1$ sea quarks at four different lattice spacings in the range $a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-11-22 J. A. Bailey , A. Bazavov , C. Bernard , C. Bouchard , C. DeTar , D. Du , A. X. El-Khadra , J. Foley , E. D. Freeland , E. Gamiz , Steven Gottlieb , U. M. Heller , A. S. Kronfeld , J. Laiho , L. Levkova , Yuzhi Liu , P. B. Mackenzie , Y. Meurice , E. T. Neil , S. Qiu , J. N. Simone , R. L. Sugar , D. Toussaint , R. S. Van de Water , R. Zhou

Kinematic Moments of $\bar{B}\to X_c \ell \bar{\nu}_\ell$ to Order $\mathcal{O}(\Lambda_{\rm QCD}^5/m_b^5)$

We investigate the heavy-quark expansion (HQE) for inclusive semileptonic $\bar{B}$ decays, at tree level, by computing the fully differential decay rate up to order $\mathcal{O}(\Lambda_{\rm QCD}^5/m_b^5)$. We provide analytic results for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-17 Gael Finauri

Semi-Leptonic Decays of \Lambda_c and \Lambda_b Baryons involving Heavy to Light Transitions and the determination of V_{ub}

We calculate the semi-leptonic decays of $\Lambda_c$ and $\Lambda_b$ baryons which involve transitions of a heavy quark to a light quark. In a previous work we used data on the Cabibbo favoured non-leptonic decays of charmed baryons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Alakabha Datta

Inclusive weak decays of heavy hadrons with power suppressed terms at NLO

Within the heavy quark expansion techniques for the heavy hadron weak decays we analytically compute the coefficient of the power suppressed dimension five chromo-magnetic operator at next-to-leading order of QCD perturbation theory with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Thomas Mannel , Alexei A. Pivovarov , Denis Rosenthal

A New Approach to Inclusive Decay Spectra

The main obstacle in describing inclusive decay spectra in QCD - which, in particular, limits the precision in extrapolating the measured \bar{B} \to X(s) gamma rate to the full phase space as well as in extracting |V_{ub}| from inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Einan Gardi , Jeppe R. Andersen