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|Vub| and |Vcb|, Charm Counting and Lifetime Differences in Inclusive Bottom Hadron Decays

Y. L. Wu, Y. A. Yan

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0002261

Abstract

Inclusive bottom hadron decays are analyzed based on the heavy quark effective field theory (HQEFT). Special attentions in this paper are paid to the b u transitions and nonspectator effects. As a consequence, the CKM quark mixing matrix elements |Vub| and |Vcb| are reliably extracted from the inclusive semileptonic decays B Xu e νand B Xc e ν. Various observables, such as the semileptonic branch ratio BSL, the lifetime differences among B-, B0, Bs and Λb hadrons, the charm counting nc, are predicted and found to be consistent with the present experimental data.

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