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Measurements of Moments of the Hadronic Mass Distribution in Semileptonic B Decays

B. Aubert

hep-exarXiv:hep-ex/0403031

Abstract

We report a measurement of the first four moments of the hadronic mass distribution in B --> Xc lv decays. The measurements are based on 89 million Upsilon(4S) --> BBbar events where the hadronic decay of one of the B mesons is fully reconstructed and a charged lepton from the decay of the other B meson is identified. The moments are presented for minimum lepton momenta ranging from 0.9 to 1.6 GeV in the B rest frame. It is expected that such measurements will lead to improved determinations of |Vcb| and |Vub|.

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