Determination of |Vub| from measurements of the electron and neutrino momenta in inclusive semileptonic B decays

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Sep 9;95(11):111801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.111801. Epub 2005 Sep 9.

Abstract

We present a determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element |Vub| based on the analysis of semileptonic B decays from a sample of 88 x 10(6) Gamma(4S) decays collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II e+e- storage ring. Charmless semileptonic B decays are selected using measurements of the electron energy and the invariant mass squared of the electron-neutrino pair. We obtain |Vub| =(3.95 +/- 0.26(+0.58)(-0.42) +/- 0.25) x 10(-3), where the errors represent experimental uncertainties, heavy quark parameter uncertainties, and theoretical uncertainties, respectively.