Measurement of the branching fraction for inclusive semileptonicBmeson decays
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- 26 February 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 67 (3) , 031101
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.67.031101
Abstract
A largely model-independent measurement of the inclusive electron momentum spectrum and branching fraction for semileptonic decays of B mesons is presented based on data recorded at the resonance with the BABAR detector. Backgrounds from secondary charm decays are separated from prompt B decays using charge and angular correlations between the electron from one B meson and a high momentum electron tag from the second B meson. The resulting branching fraction is Based on this measurement we determine the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix element
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