Abstract
We report the first evidence of charmless semileptonic decays of B mesons. In the momentum interval 2.4–2.6 GeV/c where the background from b→clν is negligible, the average of the measured b→ueν and b→uμν partial branching ratios is Δ(2.4,2.6) =(1.8±0.4±0.3)×. Inclusion of data from the interval 2.2–2.4 GeV/c, where the lepton yield is dominated by b→clν, gives Δ(2.2,2.6) =(3.3±0.8±0.8)×. ‖/‖ depends on the theoretical model of b→ulν decay and is approximately 0.1.
- Received 8 November 1989
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.16
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