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Heavy quark parameters and |Vcb| from spectral moments in semileptonic B decays

2003; Elsevier BV; Volume: 556; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0370-2693(03)00042-x

1873-2445

Marco Battaglia, Marta Calvi, Paolo Gambino, A. Oyanguren, P. Roudeau, L. Salmi, José Salt, A. Stocchi, Nikolai Uraltsev,

High-Energy Particle Collisions Research

We extract the heavy quark masses and non-perturbative parameters from the Delphi preliminary measurements of the first three moments of the charged lepton energy and hadronic mass distributions in semileptonic B decays, using a multi-parameter fit. We adopt two formalisms, one of which does not rely on a 1/mc expansion and makes use of running quark masses. The data are consistent and the level of accuracy of the experimental inputs largely determines the present sensitivity. The results allow to improve on the uncertainty in the extraction of |Vcb|.