Measurement of Exclusive $B \to X_u \ell \nu$ Decays with $D^{(*)} \ell \nu$ Decay Tagging

TL;DR

This paper measures the branching fractions of exclusive charmless semileptonic B decays using D(*)lν decay tagging, providing data crucial for determining the CKM matrix element V_{ub} with high purity.

Contribution

It introduces a method to measure B to pi/rho lν decays with D(*)lν tagging, improving purity and precision over previous approaches.

Findings

Measured branching fractions for B to pi/rho lν decays.

Provided partial branching fractions in three q^2 intervals.

Extracted the magnitude of V_{ub} from the results.

Abstract

We report a measurement of the charmless semileptonic decays $B^0 \to \pi^- / \rho^- \ell^{+} \nu$ and $B^+ \to \pi^0 / \rho^0 \ell^{+} \nu$, based on 253 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB $e^+e^-$ asymmetric collider. In this analysis, the accompanying $B$ meson is reconstructed in the semileptonic mode $B \to D^{(*)} \ell \nu$, enabling detection of the signal modes with high purity. We measure the branching fractions ${\cal B}(B^0 \to \pi^- \ell^+ \nu) = (1.48\pm 0.20\pm 0.16\pm 0.04) \times 10^{-4}$, ${\cal B}(B^0 \to \rho^- \ell^+ \nu) = (2.07\pm 0.47\pm 0.25\pm 0.14) \times 10^{-4}$, ${\cal B}(B^+ \to \pi^0 \ell^+ \nu) = (0.76\pm 0.13\pm 0.08\pm 0.04) \times 10^{-4}$ and ${\cal B}(B^+ \to \rho^0 \ell^+ \nu) = (1.39\pm 0.23\pm 0.17\pm 0.03) \times 10^{-4}$, where the errors are statistical, experimental systematic, and systematic due to form-factor uncertainties, respectively. For each mode we also present the partial branching fractions in three $q^2$ intervals; $q^2 < 8$, $8 \leq q^2 < 16$, and $q^2 \geq 16$ GeV$^2/c^2$. Based on these results, the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $V_{ub}$ is extracted. All of the presented results are preliminary.