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Measurements of partial branching fractions of inclusive B →xuℓ+νℓ decays with hadronic tagging

  • (Belle Collaboration)
  • Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
  • KEK and Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai)
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
  • University of Tokyo
  • Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University
  • University of Tabuk
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Univ. of Cincinnati
  • National Research University Higher School of Economics
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
  • Humanoid Technologies Lab (H2T)
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP)
  • University of Mississippi
  • University of Hawaii
  • Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali
  • Charles University in Prague
  • Jožef Stefan Institute
  • Wayne State University
  • Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences
  • University of Maribor
  • INFN Sezione di Napoli
  • Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
  • Fu Jen Catholic University
  • National Taiwan University
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
  • National Central University
  • Hanyang University
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
  • Yonsei University
  • Gyeongsang National University
  • Sungkyunkwan University
  • Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
  • Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur
  • Fudan University
  • Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (SB RAS)
  • Novosibirsk State University
  • School of Physics
  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Panjab University
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Niigata University
  • Nara Women's University
  • University of Sydney
  • Nagoya University
  • Osaka Prefecture University
  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • Kyungpook National University
  • Chonnam National University
  • Kitasato University
  • Seoul National University
  • Soongsil University
  • Univ. of Ljubljana
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • Punjab Agricultural University
  • Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
  • Liaoning Normal University
  • Beijing University
  • Hiroshima University
  • University of Miyazaki
  • Osaka University
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
  • Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  • INFN Sez. di Torino
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Kyoto Sangyo University
  • Toho University
  • Nippon Dental University
  • National Research Nuclear University MEPhI
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Luther College, Decorah
  • Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)
  • Tohoku University
  • Biodonostia Health Research Institute-CIBERNED-UPV-EHU
  • Basque Foundation for Science
  • Yamagata University
  • University of Nova Gorica
  • Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • Riken
  • Showa Pharmaceutical University
  • Japan Atomic Energy Agency
  • University Paris-Sud
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Duke University
  • National United University Taiwan
  • Institute of High Energy Physics Chinese Academy of Science
  • Korea University
  • Soochow University
  • University of Science and Technology of China

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Abstract

We present measurements of partial branching fractions of inclusive semileptonic B→Xuℓ+νℓ decays using the full Belle dataset of 711 fb-1 of integrated luminosity at the ϒ(4S) resonance and for ℓ=e, μ. Inclusive semileptonic B→Xuℓ+νℓ decays are Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) suppressed and measurements are complicated by the large background from CKM favored B→Xcℓ+νℓ transitions, which have a similar signature. Using machine learning techniques, we reduce this and other backgrounds effectively, while retaining access to a large fraction of the B→Xuℓ+νℓ phase space and high signal efficiency. We measure partial branching fractions in three phase-space regions covering about 31% to 86% of the accessible B→Xuℓ+νℓ phase space. The most inclusive measurement corresponds to the phase space with lepton energies of EℓB>1 GeV, and we obtain ΔB(B→Xuℓ+νℓ)=(1.59±0.07±0.16)×10-3 from a two-dimensional fit of the hadronic mass spectrum and the four-momentum-transfer squared distribution, with the uncertainties denoting the statistical and systematic error. We find |Vub|=(4.10±0.09±0.22±0.15)×10-3 from an average of four calculations for the partial decay rate with the third uncertainty denoting the average theory error. This value is higher but compatible with the determination from exclusive semileptonic decays within 1.3 standard deviations. In addition, we report charmless inclusive partial branching fractions separately for B+ and B0 mesons as well as for electron and muon final states. No isospin breaking or lepton flavor universality violating effects are observed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012008
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume104
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2021

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