Phys. Rev. Lett.
71,
4111–4115
(1993)
Measurement of charmless semileptonic decays of B mesons
J. Bartelt et al.
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J. Bartelt, S. E. Csorna, Z. Egyed, V. Jain, D. S. Akerib, B. Barish, M. Chadha, S. Chan, D. F. Cowen, G. Eigen, J. S. Miller, C. O’Grady, J. Urheim, A. J. Weinstein, D. Acosta, M. Athanas, G. Masek, H. Paar, M. Sivertz, A. Bean, J. Gronberg, R. Kutschke, S. Menary, R. J. Morrison, S. Nakanishi, H. N. Nelson, T. K. Nelson, J. D. Richman, A. Ryd, H. Tajima, D. Schmidt, D. Sperka, M. S. Witherell, M. Procario, S. Yang, K. Cho, M. Daoudi, W. T. Ford, D. R. Johnson, K. Lingel, M. Lohner, P. Rankin, J. G. Smith, J. P. Alexander, C. Bebek, K. Berkelman, D. Besson, T. E. Browder, D. G. Cassel, H. A. Cho, D. M. Coffman, P. S. Drell, R. Ehrlich, M. Garcia-Sciveres, B. Geiser, B. Gittelman, S. W. Gray, D. L. Hartill, B. K. Heltsley, C. D. Jones, S. L. Jones, J. Kandaswamy, N. Katayama, P. C. Kim, D. L. Kreinick, G. S. Ludwig, J. Masui, J. Mevissen, N. B. Mistry, C. R. Ng, E. Nordberg, M. Ogg, J. R. Patterson, D. Peterson, D. Riley, S. Salman, M. Sapper, H. Worden, F. Würthwein, P. Avery, A. Freyberger, J. Rodriguez, R. Stephens, J. Yelton, D. Cinabro, S. Henderson, K. Kinoshita, T. Liu, M. Saulnier, F. Shen, R. Wilson, H. Yamamoto, B. Ong, M. Selen, A. J. Sadoff, R. Ammar, S. Ball, P. Baringer, D. Coppage, N. Copty, R. Davis, N. Hancock, M. Kelly, N. Kwak, H. Lam, Y. Kubota, M. Lattery, J. K. Nelson, S. Patton, D. Perticone, R. Poling, V. Savinov, S. Schrenk, R. Wang, M. S. Alam, I. J. Kim, B. Nemati, J. J. O’Neill, H. Severini, C. R. Sun, M. M. Zoeller, G. Crawford, M. Daubenmeir, R. Fulton, D. Fujino, K. K. Gan, K. Honscheid, H. Kagan, R. Kass, J. Lee, R. Malchow, F. Morrow, Y. Skovpen, M. Sung, C. White, J. Whitmore, P. Wilson, F. Butler, X. Fu, G. Kalbfleisch, M. Lambrecht, W. R. Ross, P. Skubic, J. Snow, P. L. Wang, M. Wood, D. Bortoletto, D. N. Brown, J. Fast, R. L. McIlwain, T. Miao, D. H. Miller, M. Modesitt, S. F. Schaffner, E. I. Shibata, I. P. J. Shipsey, P. N. Wang, M. Battle, J. Ernst, H. Kroha, S. Roberts, K. Sparks, E. H. Thorndike, C. H. Wang, V. Chelkov, J. Dominick, S. Sanghera, T. Skwarnicki, R. Stroynowski, I. Volobouev, P. Zadorozhny, M. Artuso, D. He, M. Goldberg, N. Horwitz, R. Kennett, G. C. Moneti, F. Muheim, Y. Mukhin, S. Playfer, Y. Rozen, S. Stone, M. Thulasidas, G. Vasseur, and G. Zhu
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
University of California–Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0390
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York 14850
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York 12222
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244
Received 7 September 1993; published in the issue dated 20 December 1993
Using the CLEO II detector and a sample of 955 000 Υ(4S) decays we have confirmed charmless semileptonic decays of B mesons. In the momentum interval 2.3–2.6 GeV/c we observe an excess of 107±15±11 leptons, which we attribute to b→ulν. This result yields a model-dependent range of values for ‖Vub/Vcb‖ that is lower than has been obtained in previous studies. For the inclusive spectator model of Altarelli et al. we find ‖Vub/Vcb‖=0.076±0.008. Models that describe b→ulν with a limited set of exclusive final states give ‖Vub/Vcb‖=0.06-0.10.
© 1993 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.4111
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.4111
PACS:
13.20.Jf, 12.15.Ff, 14.40.Jz
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