Published September 1, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Study of B→πlν and B→ρlν decays and determination of vertical bar Vub vertical bar

  • 1. Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux (France)
  • 2. IFAE, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona (Spain)
  • 3. Universita di Bari, Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 4. Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100039 (China)
  • 5. University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)

Description

We present an analysis of exclusive charmless semileptonic B-meson decays based on 83x106 BB pairs recorded with the BABAR detector at the Υ(4S) resonance. Using isospin symmetry, we measure branching fractions B(B0→π-l+ν)=(1.38±0.10±0.16±0.08)x10-4 and B(B0→ρ-l+ν)=(2.14±0.21±0.48±0.28)x10-4, where the errors are statistical, experimental systematic, and due to form-factor shape uncertainties. We compare the measured distribution in q2, the momentum-transfer squared, with theoretical predictions for the form factors from lattice QCD and light-cone sum rules, and extract the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix element |Vub|=(3.82±0.14±0.22±0.11-0.52+0.88)x10-3 from B→πlν, where the fourth error reflects the uncertainty of the form-factor normalization

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
72
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 051102-051102.8
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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Notes
(c) 2005 The American Physical Society
Collaborations
BABAR Collaboration