Measurement of lepton momentum moments in the decay B¯Xlν¯ and determination of the heavy quark expansion parameters and |Vcb|

Abstract
We measure the primary lepton momentum spectrum in B¯Xlν¯ decays, for pl>~1.5GeV/c in the B rest frame. From this, we calculate various moments of the spectrum. In particular, we find R01.7GeV(dΓ/dEsl)dEl/1.5GeV(dΓ/dEsl)dEl=0.6187±0.0014stat±0.0016sys and R11.5GeVEl(dΓ/dEsl)dEl/1.5GeV(dΓ/dEsl)dEl=(1.7810±0.0007stat±0.0009sys)GeV. We use these moments to determine non-perturbative parameters governing the semileptonic width. In particular, we extract the heavy quark expansion parameters Λ¯=(0.39±0.03stat±0.06sys±0.12th)GeV and λ1=(0.25±0.02stat±0.05sys±0.14th)GeV2. The theoretical constraints used are evaluated through order 1/MB3 in the non-perturbative expansion and β0αs2 in the perturbative expansion. We use these parameters to extract |Vcb| from the world average of the semileptonic width and find |Vcb|=(40.8±0.5Γsl±0.4(λ1,Λ¯)exp±0.9th)×103. In addition, we extract the short range b-quark mass mb1S=(4.82±0.07exp±0.11th)GeV/c2. Finally, we discuss the implications of our measurements for the theoretical understanding of inclusive semileptonic processes.
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