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Download or read book Measurement of the B0 to Pi L Nu and B+ to Pi0 L Nu Branching Fractions and Determination of written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors report preliminary measurements of the charmless exclusive semileptonic branching fractions of the B° → ?−l+? and B+ → ?°l+? decays, based on 211 fb−1 of data collected at the ?(4S) resonance by the BABAR detector. In events in which the decay of one B meson to a hadronic final state is fully reconstructed, the semileptonic decay of the second B meson is identified by the detection of a charged lepton and a pion. They measure the partial branching fractions for B° → ?−l+? and B+ → ?°l+? in three regions of the invariant mass squared of the lepton pair, and they obtain the total branching fractions ?(B° → ?−l+?) = (1.14 ± 0.27{sub stat} ± 0.17{sub syst}) x 10−4 and ?(B+ → ?°l+?) = (0.86 ± 0.22{sub stat} ± 0.11{sub syst}) x 10−4. Using isospin symmetry, they measure the combined total branching fraction ?(B° → ?−l+?) = (1.28 ± 0.23{sub stat} ± 0.16{sub syst}) x 10−4. Theoretical predictions of the form-factor are used to determine the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element.