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We present a study of B semileptonic decays into charm final states based on 211.7 fb^{-1} of data collected at the \Upsilon(4S) resonance with the babar detector at the pep2 e^+e^- storage ring. Using a novel technique based on the…
Using 226 million $\Upsilon(4S)\to B\bar{B}$ events collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II $e^+e^-$ storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, we measure the branching fraction for $B^0\to \bar{D}^0 K^+\pi^-$,…
We present measurements of the branching fractions and charge asymmetries of B decays to all D(*)D(*) modes. Using 232 million BBbar pairs recorded on the Upsilon(4S) resonance by the BaBar detector at the e+e- asymmetric B factory PEP-II…
We presented at Moriond EW 2025 a measurement of the branching fraction of $B\to\tau\nu$ decays using $(387\pm 6) \times 10^6$ $\Upsilon (4S)$ collected between 2019 and 2022 with the Belle~II detector at the SuperKEKB $e^+e^-$ collider. We…
We present a search for the decay B+ -->tau+ nu using 467.8 x 10^6 B B pairs collected at the Y(4S) resonance with the BaBar detector at the SLAC PEP-II B-Factory. We select a sample of events with one completely reconstructed B- in the…
Measurements in $W^+W^-$ events at LEP2 and in $B$ hadron semileptonic decays at B factories and LHCb provide intriguing hints of a violation of lepton universality in the charged current coupling of tau leptons relative to those for…
A largely model-independent measurement of the inclusive electron momentum spectrum and branching fraction for semileptonic decays of B mesons is presented based on data recorded at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector.…
We present a new result from Belle and many new results from BABAR for rare hadronic B decays. These include measurements of decays involving baryons, a Dalitz plot analysis of the three-charged-kaon system, many new results for B decays to…
We have observed the rare decay B0 => rho+ rho- in a sample of 89 million BB pairs recorded with the BABAR detector. The number of observed events is 88 +23-21 +-9, with a significance of 5.1 standard deviations with systematic…
Recently there has been interest in the correlation between R(D*) and the branching ratio (BR) of $B_c \to \tau \nu$ in models with a charged scalar H^\pm. Any enhancement of R(D*) by $H^\pm$ alone (in order to agree with current data) also…
We report an improved measurement of the B+ -> D+ D0bar and B0 -> D0 D0bar decays based on 657 10^6 BBar events collected with the Belle detector at KEKB. We measure the branching fraction and charge asymmetry for the B+ -> D+ D0bar decay:…
Tag-side reconstruction is an important method for reconstructing $B$ meson decays with missing energy. The Belle II tag-side reconstruction algorithm, Full Event Interpretation, relies on a hierarchical reconstruction of $B$ meson decays…
Decays of the type B --> D^{(*)} anti-D^{(*)} can be used to provide a measurement of the parameter sin2beta of the Unitarity Triangle that is complementary to the measurement derived from the mode B^0 --> J/psi K_s^0. In this document we…
The first observation of the decay $\eta_{c}(2S) \to p \bar p$ is reported using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3.0\rm \, fb^{-1}$ recorded by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7…
We present the measurements of the CKM matrix parameters Vub, Vcb and of the B mixing oscillation frequency with the BaBar experiment at the asymmetric B-factory PEPII. Data were collected in the years 2000-2002 and the total available…
The photon spectrum in B -> X_s gamma decay, where X_s is any strange hadronic state, is studied using a data sample of 88.5 million e+e- -> Upsilon(4S) -> BBbar decays collected by the BaBar experiment at SLAC. The partial branching…
A preliminary measurement of the second moments of the hadron mass in B --> X l nu decays by the BABAR Collaboration is reported. These measurements are performed as a function of the lepton momentum above a given threshold.
Using 355 pb^-1 of data collected by the CDF II detector in \ppbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron, we study the fully reconstructed hadronic decays B -> D pi and B -> D pi pi pi. We present the first measurement…
The analysis uses data from an integrated luminosity of approximately 172 pb-1 of ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV, collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The Lambda_b and B0 relative branching fractions are…
Presented are selected results of semileptonic B decays at BaBar. Two measurements of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $|V_{cb}|$ are reported. One using moments of the hadronic-mass spectrum in inclusive $\bar{B} \to X_{c}…