We present a new measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element vertical bar V-cb vertical bar from B-0 -> D*(-)l(+)nu(l) decays, reconstructed with the full Belle data set of 711 fb(-1) integrated luminosity. Two form factor parametrizations, originally conceived by the Caprivi-Lellouch-Neubert (CLN) and the Boyd, Grinstein and Lebed (BGL) groups, are used to extract the product F(1)eta(EW)vertical bar V-cb vertical bar and the decay form factors, where F(1) is the normalization factor and eta(EW) is a small electroweak correction. In the CLN parametrization we find F(1)eta(EW)vertical bar V-cb vertical bar = (35.06 +/- 0.15 +/- 0.56) x 10(-3), rho(2) = 1.106 +/- 0.031 +/- 0.007, R-1 (1) = 1.229 +/- 0.028 +/- 0.009, R-2(1) = 0.852 +/- 0.021 +/- 0.006. For the BGL parametrization we obtain ,F(1)eta(EW)vertical bar V-cb vertical bar = (34.93 +/- 0.23 +/- 0.59) x 10(-3), which is consistent with the world average when correcting for F(1)eta(EW). The branching fraction of B-0 -> D*(-)l(+)nu(l )is measured to be B(B-0 -> D*(-)l(+)nu(l))= (4.90 +/- 0.02 +/- 0.16)%. We also present a new test of lepton flavor universality violation in semileptonic B decays, B(B-0 -> D*(-)e(+)nu)/B(B-0 -> D*(-)mu(+)nu) = 1.01 +/- 0.01 +/- 0.03. The errors quoted correspond to the statistical and systematic uncertainties, respectively. This is the most precise measurement of F(1)eta(EW)vertical bar V-cb vertical bar and form factors to date and the first experimental study of the BGL form factor parametrization in an experimental measurement.
Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Qian Wang, Jan Steggemann, Yiming Li, Anna Mascellani, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Rakesh Chawla, Matteo Galli
Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Jan Steggemann, Qian Wang, Anna Mascellani, Yiming Li, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Rakesh Chawla, Matteo Galli