scholarly journals DETERMINATION OF THE CKM MATRIX ELEMENT |VCB| FROM SEMILEPTONIC B DECAYS

Author(s):  
VERA G. LÜTH ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (29) ◽  
pp. 2183-2197
Author(s):  
MASAHIRO MORII

Semileptonic decays of the B mesons provide an excellent probe for the weak and strong interactions of the bottom quark. The large data samples collected at the B Factories have pushed the experimental studies of the semileptonic B decays to a new height and stimulated significant theoretical developments. We review recent progresses in this fast-evolving field, with an emphasis on the determination of the magnitude of the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix element |Vub|.


2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 13003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Vaquero Avilés-Casco ◽  
Carleton DeTar ◽  
Daping Du ◽  
Aida El-Khadra ◽  
Andreas Kronfeld ◽  
...  

We present preliminary results from our analysis of the form factors for the B → D*lv decay at non-zero recoil. Our analysis includes 15 MILC asqtad ensembles with Nf = 2 + 1 flavors of sea quarks and lattice spacings ranging from a ≈ 0.15 fm down to 0.045 fm. The valence light quarks employ the asqtad action, whereas the heavy quarks are treated using the Fermilab action. We conclude with a discussion of future plans and phenomenological implications. When combined with experimental measurements of the decay rate, our calculation will enable a determination of the CKM matrix element |Vcb|.


2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (08n09) ◽  
pp. 1724-1737 ◽  
Author(s):  
ULRICH NIERSTE

I summarize the theoretical progress in the determination of the CKM elements since Lepton-Photon 2003 and present the status of the elements and parameters of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix. One finds |Vus| = 0.2227 ± 0.0017 from K and τ decays and |Vcb| = (41.6 ± 0.5) · 10-3 from inclusive semileptonic B decays. The unitarity triangle can now be determined from tree-level quantities alone and the result agrees well with the global fit including flavour-changing neutral current (FCNC) processes, which are sensitive to new physics. From the global fit one finds the three CKM angles θ12 = 12.9° ± 0.1°, θ23 = 2.38° ± 0.03° and θ13 = 0.223° ± 0.007° in the standard PDG convention. The CP phase equals [Formula: see text] at 1σ CL and [Formula: see text] at 2σ CL. A major progress are first results from fully unquenched lattice QCD computations for the hadronic quantities entering the UT fit. I further present the calculation of three-loop QCD corrections to the charm contribution in [Formula: see text] decays, which removes the last relevant theoretical uncertainty from the [Formula: see text] system. Finally I discuss mixing-induced CP asymmetries in [Formula: see text] penguin decays, whose naive average is below its Standard Model value by 3σ.


1989 ◽  
Vol 225 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 186-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.S. Kim ◽  
A.D. Martin

Author(s):  
Alberto Lusiani

We report the status of the Heavy Flavour Averaging Group (HFLAV) averages of the \tauτ lepton measurements We then update the latest published HFLAV global fit of the \tauτ lepton branching fractions (Spring 2017) with recent results by . We use the fit results to update the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix element \left|V_{us}\right||Vus| measurements with the \tauτ branching fractions. We combine the direct \tauτ branching fraction measurements with indirect predictions using kaon branching fractions measurements to improve the determination of \left|V_{us}\right||Vus| using \tauτ branching fractions. The \left|V_{us}\right||Vus| determinations based on the inclusive branching fraction of \tauτ to strange final states are about 3\sigma3σ lower than the \left|V_{us}\right||Vus| determination from the CKM matrix unitarity.


2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (16) ◽  
pp. 3707-3711
Author(s):  
◽  
JOCHEN DINGFELDER

Measurements of charmless semileptonic B-meson decays and the CKM matrix element |Vub| are reported based on a sample of 88 million [Formula: see text] events recorded with the BABAR detector. Decays B → Xuℓν are selected from both tagged and untagged [Formula: see text] events and separated from the dominant charm background, B → Xcℓν, using different kinematic variables: the lepton momentum Eℓ, the squared four-momentum transfer q2, and the hadronic mass mX. The extrapolation to the total decay rate to determine |Vub| is performed for different theoretical models. We have also measured branching ratios for the exclusive semileptonic decays B → π(ρ,ω,η,η′,a0)ℓν, where a high signal purity is reached by fully or partially reconstructing the second B meson.


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