CKM Physics from B Decays using the CLEO Experiment

dc.creatorWarburton, Andreas
dc.date1999-06-18
dc.date1999-06-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:37:56Z
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dc.descriptionWe report on studies of three types of B-meson decay that can contribute to an understanding of fundamental intergenerational quark mixing, charge-conjugation--parity violation, and long-distance quantum chromodynamics. Specifically, we discuss a selection of analyses related to the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) parameters Vcb, Vub, alpha, and gamma, and the nonperturbative heavy quark effective theory quantities lambda_1 and lambda_bar. We first describe an examination of the first and second moments of the hadronic-recoil mass and charged-lepton energy spectra in inclusive b -> c l nu decays. We also report on the reconstruction, using similar experimental techniques, of the CKM-suppressed decay B -> rho l nu and the extraction of its branching fraction, Br(B0 -> rho- l+ nu) = (2.57 +- 0.29 +0.33/-0.46 +- 0.41) x 10E-4, as well as the value |Vub| = (3.25 +- 0.14 +0.21/-0.29 +- 0.55) x 10E-3, where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and due to model dependence, respectively. Finally, we present results on rare two-body charmless hadronic B -> K pi, pi pi, and K K decays and comment briefly on their implications to the geometry of the CKM unitarity triangle, including a bound on gamma.
dc.description7 pages, LaTeX, 3 eps figures; Invited talk presented at the 1999 Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories session of the XXXIVth Rencontres de Moriond, Arc 1800, Savoie, France, 13 - 20 March 1999; also available through http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9906030
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9906030
dc.identifier'99 Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories (Series: Moriond Particle Physics Meetings), ed. J. Tran Thanh Van, pp. 275-280 (The Gioi Publishers, Vietnam: 2001)
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/38326
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Experiment
dc.titleCKM Physics from B Decays using the CLEO Experiment
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