Conference on Flavor Physics and CP Violation (FPCP 2019)

Semileptonic and leptonic B decay results from early Belle II data

8 May 2019, 14:25

15m

ELL 162

Contributed Oral Heavy Quark Decays and CKM Metrology Parallel session 2

Speaker

Dr Markus Prim (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Description

The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB energy-asymmetric $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ collider is a substantial upgrade of the B factory facility at the Japanese KEK laboratory. The design luminosity of the machine is $8\times {10}^{35}$ cm${}^{-2}$s${}^{-1}$ and the Belle II experiment aims to record 50 ab${}^{-1}$ of data, a factor of 50 more than its predecessor. From February to July 2018, the machine has completed a commissioning run, achieved a peak luminosity of $5.5\times {10}^{33}$ cm${}^{-2}$s${}^{-1}$, and Belle II has recorded a data sample of about 0.5 fb${}^{-1}$. Main operation of SuperKEKB has started in March 2019. In this presentation we show first results from studying missing energy signatures, such as leptonic and semileptonic B meson decays based on early Belle II data. We report first studies on re-measuring important standard candle processes, such as the abundant inclusive $B\to X\ell \nu$ and $B\to D^{\ast }\ell \nu$ decays, and evaluate the performance of machine learning based tagging algorithms. Furthermore, we will also present an overview of the semileptonic B decays that will be measured in the upcoming years at Belle II and discuss prospects for important B-anomalies like R(D) and R(D*), as well as other tests of lepton flavor universality.

Presentation materials

Slides

2019_05_08_FPCP.pdf