Published April 20, 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

Additional information on heavy quark parameters from charged lepton forward-backward asymmetry

  • 1. PRISMA Cluster of Excellence & Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics,Johannes Gutenberg University,55099 Mainz (Germany)

Description

The determination of |Vcb| using inclusive and exclusive (semi-)leptonic decays exhibits a long-standing tension of varying O(3σ) significance. For the inclusive determination the decay rate is expanded in 1/mb 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| 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| from inclusive decays or hints to possible issues, and even may be sensitive to New Physics operators.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2016)131; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/15310

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2016
Journal Issue
04
Journal Page Range
p. 131
ISSN
1029-8479

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
48050762
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
B QUARKS; C QUARKS; FIELD THEORIES; LEPTONIC DECAY; LEPTONS; T QUARKS
Descriptors DEC
BEAUTY PARTICLES; CHARM PARTICLES; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS; INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE DECAY; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUARKS; TOP PARTICLES; WEAK INTERACTIONS; WEAK PARTICLE DECAY

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Copyright
Copyright (c) OPEN ACCESS, © The Authors
Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP04(2016)131; ARXIV:1602.02678; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:15310
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)