Measurement of the B0 -> pi- l+ nu Form-Factor Shape and Branching Fraction, and Determination of |Vub| with a Loose Neutrino Reconstruction Technique

B Aubert; Pablo Del Amo Sanchez; Matthew Barrett; Theresa Harrison; Alistair Hart; Christopher Hawkes; Alan Watson

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.091801

Measurement of the B0 -> pi- l+ nu Form-Factor Shape and Branching Fraction, and Determination of |Vub| with a Loose Neutrino Reconstruction Technique

B Aubert, Pablo Del Amo Sanchez, Matthew Barrett, Theresa Harrison, Alistair Hart, Christopher Hawkes, Alan Watson

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We report the results of a study of the exclusive charmless semileptonic decay, B0-->pi(-l)(+nu), undertaken with approximately 227 x 10(6) BB pairs collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector. The analysis uses events in which the signal B decays are reconstructed with an innovative loose neutrino reconstruction technique. We obtain partial branching fractions in 12 bins of q2, the momentum transfer squared, from which we extract the f + (q2) form-factor shape and the total branching fraction B(B0-->pi(-l)(+nu))=(1.46+/-0.07stat+/-0.08syst) x 10(-4). Based on a recent unquenched lattice QCD calculation of the form factor in the range q2>16 GeV2, we find the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element /Vub/ to be (4.1+/-0.2stat +/- 0.2syst(+0.6)-0.4_{FF}) x 10(-3), where the last uncertainty is due to the normalization of the form factor.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	091801
Number of pages	1
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	98
Early online date	1 Feb 2007
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.091801
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2007

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Measurement of the B0 -> pi- l+ nu Form-Factor Shape and Branching Fraction, and Determination of |Vub| with a Loose Neutrino Reconstruction Technique

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