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Measurement of the B0→ X-u ℓ+νℓ decays near the kinematic endpoint of the lepton spectrum and search for violation of isospin symmetry

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Abstract

We present the first measurement of the B0 → X-u ℓ+νℓ partial branching fraction in the endpoint region of the lepton momentum spectrum, above the threshold for B → Xcℓνℓ decays. The analysis is based on a sample of 383 million γ(4S) decays into BB pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- storage rings. We select B0B0 events by partially reconstructing one B meson via the B0 → Dz.ast;+ℓ- ̄νℓ decays then select B0 → X- u ℓ+νℓ decays identifying a second high momentum lepton. In the momentum interval ranging from 2.3 to 2.6 GeV/c we measure the partial branching fraction πB(B0 → Xuℓν) = (1.30 ± 0.21stat ± 0.07syst) × 10-4 where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. By comparing this measurement with the one obtained from untagged B decays we obtain R+/0 = ΔB(B0 → Xuℓν)/ ΔB(B+ → Xuℓν) = 1.18 ± 0.35stat ± 0.17syst. Using this measurement we extract a limit on the contributions from processes breaking isospin symmetry in charmless semileptonic B decays.

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