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

  • (Belle Collaboration)
  • University of Bonn
  • The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba
  • The University of Tokyo
  • King Abdulaziz University
  • University of Tabuk
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • University of Cincinnati
  • Higher School of Economics
  • German Electron Synchrotron
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • University of Mississippi
  • University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali
  • Charles University
  • Jožef Stefan Institute
  • Wayne State University
  • H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • University of Maribor
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • Fu Jen Catholic University
  • National Taiwan University
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • National Central University
  • Hanyang University
  • RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
  • Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
  • Yonsei University
  • Gyeongsang National University
  • Sungkyunkwan University
  • Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
  • Malaviya National Institute of Technology
  • Fudan University

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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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