Determination of the B-quark Mass and Nonperturbative Parameters in Semileptonic and Radiative Penguin Decays at BaBar
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Release | : 2008 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:727207340 |
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Book excerpt: Knowing the mass of the b-quark is essential to the study of the structure and decays of B mesons as well as to future tests of the Higgs mechanism of mass generation. We present recent preliminary measurements of the b-quark mass and related nonperturbative parameters from moments of kinematic distributions in charmed and charmless semileptonic and radiative penguin B decays. Their determination from charmless semileptonic B decays is the first measurement in this mode. The data were collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy ee−-collider at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center at a center-of-momentum energy of 10:58 GeV.