Improving Extractions of |Vcb| and the b Quark Mass from Semileptonic Inclusive B Decay
Abstract
Recent advances in improving extractions of |Vcb| and mb from spectra of semileptonic inclusive B decay are reported. Results of a general moment analysis of the lepton energy spectrum and the hadronic invariant mass spectrum are summarized. The calculation of the general O(αs) structure functions for semileptonic B decay is reported, which has allowed the calculation of the O(αs LambdaQCD /mb) terms for the hadronic invariant mass moments to be carried out. Recent theoretical advances and improvements in experimental data has allowed extractions of the CKM element |Vcb| to improve to the 2% level.
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