Measurement of Exclusive $B \to X_u \ell ν$ Decays with $D^{(*)} \ell ν$ Decay Tagging

Abstract

We report a measurement of the charmless semileptonic decays $B^0 \to π^- / ρ^- \ell^{+} ν$ and $B^+ \to π^0 / ρ^0 \ell^{+} ν$, based on 253 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB $e^+e^-$ asymmetric collider. In this analysis, the accompanying $B$ meson is reconstructed in the semileptonic mode $B \to D^{(*)} \ell ν$, enabling detection of the signal modes with high purity. We measure the branching fractions ${\cal B}(B^0 \to π^- \ell^+ ν) = (1.48\pm 0.20\pm 0.16\pm 0.04) \times 10^{-4}$, ${\cal B}(B^0 \to ρ^- \ell^+ ν) = (2.07\pm 0.47\pm 0.25\pm 0.14) \times 10^{-4}$, ${\cal B}(B^+ \to π^0 \ell^+ ν) = (0.76\pm 0.13\pm 0.08\pm 0.04) \times 10^{-4}$ and ${\cal B}(B^+ \to ρ^0 \ell^+ ν) = (1.39\pm 0.23\pm 0.17\pm 0.03) \times 10^{-4}$, where the errors are statistical, experimental systematic, and systematic due to form-factor uncertainties, respectively. For each mode we also present the partial branching fractions in three $q^2$ intervals; $q^2 < 8$, $8 \leq q^2 < 16$, and $q^2 \geq 16$ GeV$^2/c^2$. Based on these results, the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $V_{ub}$ is extracted. All of the presented results are preliminary.