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Measurement of the semileptonic b branching ratios from inclusive leptons in Z decays

Abstract

From about 1.3 million hadronic Z decays collected with the ALEPH Detector in 1992 and 1993 inclusive muons and electrons have been analysed to measure the semileptonic branching ratios for primary and cascade bb decays. The analyses take advantage of the high purity bb sample obtained using lifetime tagging. A fit to the P_perp spectra gives the preliminary results stat syst models BR(b->l) = 0.1101 +/- 0.0010 +/- 0.0021 +0.0024-0.0017 BR(b->c->l) = 0.0768 +/- 0.0018 +/- 0.0031 +0.0034-0.0043 The model dependence has been reduced by using charge correlations in the event rather than fits to the P_perp spectra. A preliminary value of stat syst models BR(b->l) = 0.1101 +/- 0.0023 +/- 0.0028 +/- 0.0011 has been obtained

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