{ "id": "1703.08170", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-03-23T17:59:02.000Z", "updated": "2017-03-23T17:59:02.000Z", "title": "Model-Independent Extraction of $|V_{cb}|$ from $\\bar{B}\\rightarrow D^* \\ell \\overlineν$", "authors": [ "Benjamin Grinstein", "Andrew Kobach" ], "comment": "8 pages, 3 figures", "categories": [ "hep-ph" ], "abstract": "We fit the unfolded data of $\\bar{B}^0\\rightarrow D^{*+} \\ell \\overline{\\nu}$ from the Belle experiment, where $\\ell \\equiv e, \\mu$, using a method independent of heavy quark symmetry to extrapolate to zero-recoil and extract the value of $|V_{cb}|$. This results in $|V_{cb}| = (41.9^{~+2.0}_{~-1.9})\\times 10^{-3}$, which is robust to changes in the theoretical inputs and very consistent with the value extracted from inclusive semileptonic $B$ decays.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-03-23T17:59:02.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "model-independent extraction", "heavy quark symmetry", "belle experiment", "method independent", "unfolded data" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 8, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }