A model-independent determination of the inclusive semileptonic decay fraction of B mesons

• Published in: Physics letters. B 1993-12, Vol.318 (2), p.397-404
• Main Authors: Albrecht, H., Ehrlichmann, H., Hamacher, T., Hofmann, R.P., Kirchhoff, T., Nau, A., Nowak, S., Schröder, H., Schulz, H.D., Walter, M., Wurth, R., Hast, C., Kolanoski, H., Kosche, A., Lange, A., Lindner, A., Mankel, R., Schieber, M., Siegmund, T., Spaan, B., Thurn, H., Töpfer, D., Wegener, D., Bittner, M., Eckstein, P., Paulini, M., Reim, K., Wegener, H., Eckmann, R., Mundt, R., Oest, T., Reiner, R., Schmidt-Parzefall, W., Funk, W., Stiewe, J., Werner, S., Ehret, K., Hofmann, W., Hüpper, A., Khan, S., Knöpfle, K.T., Seeger, M., Spengler, J., Britton, D.I., Charlesworth, C.E.K., Edwards, K.W., Hyatt, E.R.F., Kapitza, H., Krieger, P., MacFarlane, D.B., Patel, P.M., Prentice, J.D., Saull, P.R.B., Tzamariudaki, K., Van de Water, R.G., Yoon, T.-S., Reßing, D., Schmidtler, M., Schneider, M., Schubert, K.R., Strahl, K., Waldi, R., Weseler, S., Kernel, G., Križnič, P., Podobnik, T., Živko, T., Balagura, V., Belyaev, I., Chechelnitsky, S., Danilov, M., Droutskoy, A., Gershtein, Yu, Golutvin, A., Kostina, G., Litvintsev, D., Lubimov, V., Pakhlov, P., Ratnikov, F., Semenov, S., Snizhko, A., Soloshenko, V., Tichomirov, I., Zaitsev, Yu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0370-2693; 1873-2445
• DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(93)90146-9

With the ARGUS detector at the e +e - storage ring DORIS II, we have determined decay fraction and electron momentum spectrum of the inclusive decay mode B → eνX. Usinng lepton tags from the second B meson. in 209 000 γ(4 S) → B B decays, we could determine the spectrum for all electron momenta p e > 0.6 GeV/ c . Including the small extrapolation to p e > 0, we find the model-independent decay fraction B(B → eνX) = (9.6 ± 0.5 ± 0.4)%. Adding D meson tags, our result is (9.7 ± 0.5 ± 0.4)%.