We present the first measurement of the ratio of branching fractions of inclusive semileptonic B-meson decays, R(Xe/μ)=B(B→Xeν)/B(B→Xμν), a precision test of electron-muon universality, using data corresponding to 189 fb-1 from electron-positron collisions collected with the Belle II detector. In events where the partner B meson is fully reconstructed, we use fits to the lepton momentum spectra above 1.3 GeV/c to obtain R(Xe/μ)=1.007±0.009(stat)±0.019(syst), which is the most precise lepton-universality test of its kind and agrees with the standard-model expectation.

Test of Light-Lepton Universality in the Rates of Inclusive Semileptonic B-Meson Decays at Belle II

Bianchi, F.;Destefanis, M.;Maggiora, M.;Spataro, S.;
2023-01-01

Abstract

We present the first measurement of the ratio of branching fractions of inclusive semileptonic B-meson decays, R(Xe/μ)=B(B→Xeν)/B(B→Xμν), a precision test of electron-muon universality, using data corresponding to 189 fb-1 from electron-positron collisions collected with the Belle II detector. In events where the partner B meson is fully reconstructed, we use fits to the lepton momentum spectra above 1.3 GeV/c to obtain R(Xe/μ)=1.007±0.009(stat)±0.019(syst), which is the most precise lepton-universality test of its kind and agrees with the standard-model expectation.
2023
131
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051804-1
051804-7
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.051804
Leptonic semileptonic & radiative decays, Heavy mesons, Tau leptons, Flavor symmetries, Lepton colliders, Particle data analysis
Aggarwal, L.; Ahmed, H.; Aihara, H.; Akopov, N.; Aloisio, A.; Anh Ky, N.; Asner, D. M.; Atmacan, H.; Aushev, T.; Aushev, V.; Bae, H.; Bahinipati, S.; ...espandi
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