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Additional Information on Heavy Quark Parameters from Charged Lepton Forward-Backward Asymmetry

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-05-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The determination of Vcb|V_{cb}| using inclusive and exclusive (semi-)leptonic decays exhibits a long-standing tension of varying O(3σ){\cal O}(3 \sigma) significance. For the inclusive determination the decay rate is expanded in 1/mb1/m_b using heavy quark expansion, and from moments of physical observables the higher order heavy quark parameters are extracted from experimental data in order to assess Vcb|V_{cb}| from the normalisation. The drawbacks are high correlations both theoretically as well as experimentally among these observables. We will scrutinise the inclusive determination in order to add a new and less correlated observable. This observable is related to the decay angle of the charged lepton and can help to constrain the important heavy quark parameters in a new way. It may validate the current seemingly stable extraction of Vcb|V_{cb}| from inclusive decays or hints to possible issues, and even may be sensitive to New Physics operators.

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@article{arxiv.1602.02678,
  title  = {Additional Information on Heavy Quark Parameters from Charged Lepton Forward-Backward Asymmetry},
  author = {Sascha Turczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.02678},
  year   = {2016}
}
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