Measurement Of |V_ub| From Inclusive Charmless Semileptonic B Decays

TL;DR

This paper measures the CKM matrix element |Vub| through inclusive charmless semileptonic B decays, employing a multivariate analysis that covers most of the decay phase space and reduces theoretical uncertainties.

Contribution

It introduces a multivariate analysis method to access about 90% of the B -> Xu l nu phase space, significantly lowering theoretical uncertainties compared to previous inclusive measurements.

Findings

Partial branching fraction: 1.963 x 10^-3 with uncertainties

|Vub| values derived using multiple theoretical models

Reduced theoretical uncertainties in |Vub| extraction

Abstract

We present the partial branching fraction for inclusive charmless semileptonic B decays and the corresponding value of the CKM matrix element |Vub|, using a multivariate analysis method to access ~90% of the B -> Xu l nu phase space. This approach dramatically reduces the theoretical uncertainties from the b-quark mass and non-perturbative QCD compared to all previous inclusive measurements. The results are based on a sample of 657 million B -Bbar pairs collected with the Belle detector. We find that Delta BR(B -> Xu l nu; p^*B_l>1.0 GeV/c=1.963 x (1 +/- 0.088(stat.) +/- 0.081(sys.)) x 10^-3. Corresponding values of |Vub| are extracted using several theoretical calculations.