Determination of V_cb from exclusive decays in a relativistic quark model

Abstract

In the framework of a relativistic covariant Bethe-Salpeter model for the quark-antiquark system we present a renewed determination of the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $|V_{cb}|$. Complementing an earlier analysis applied to the whole decay spectrum for $B\to D^{\ast }e\nu$ we now also employ the ``zero-recoil method'' that uses the end point of the decay spectrum ($\omega =1$) and is suited for heavy-to-heavy transitions. The averaged experimental value extracted from the data at zero recoil, $|V_{cb}|\mathcal{F}(\omega =1)=0.0343\pm 0.0015$, then leads to $|V_{cb}|=0.0360\pm 0.0016$. This value is somewhat larger than the one that uses the whole decay spectrum for the model analysis. We also contrast this result to a nonrelativistic model and to recent experiments on the $B\to De\nu$ semileptonic decay.

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