Based on the full BABAR data sample, we report improved measurements of the ratios RðDÞ ¼ BðB ! D À Þ=BðB ! D' À ' Þ and RðD Ã Þ ¼ BðB ! D Ã À Þ=BðB ! D Ã ' À ' Þ, where ' refers to either an electron or muon. These ratios are sensitive to new physics contributions in the form of a charged Higgs boson. We measure RðDÞ ¼ 0:440 AE 0:058 AE 0:042 and RðD Ã Þ ¼ 0:332 AE 0:024 AE 0:018, which exceed the standard model expectations by 2:0 and 2:7, respectively. Taken together, the results disagree with these expectations at the 3:4 level. This excess cannot be explained by a charged Higgs boson in the type II two-Higgs-doublet model. Kinematic distributions presented here exclude large portions of the more general type III two-Higgs-doublet model, but there are solutions within this model compatible with the results.

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Kerth, L. et al.. (2012) Branching fraction and form-factor shape measurements of exclusive charmless semileptonic B decays, and determination of |V_{ub}|. Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology), Vol.86 (No.9). Article no.092004 Permanent WRAP url: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/52210 Copyright and reuse:The Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) makes the work of researchers of the University of Warwick available open access under the following conditions. Copyright © and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable the material made available in WRAP has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-forprofit purposes without prior permission or charge. Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. Publisher's statement: © 2012 American Physical Society A note on versions:The version presented here is a working paper or pre-print that may be later published elsewhere. If a published version is known of, the above WRAP url will contain details on finding it. We report the results of a study of the exclusive charmless semileptonic decays,undertaken with approximately 462 × 10 6 BB pairs collected at the Υ(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector. The analysis uses events in which the signal B decays are reconstructed with a loose neutrino reconstruction technique. We obtain partial branching fractions in several bins of q 2 , the square of the momentum transferred to the lepton-neutrino pair, for B 0 → π − ℓ + ν, B + → π 0 ℓ + ν, B + → ωℓ + ν and B + → ηℓ + ν. From these distributions, we extract the form-factor shapes f+(q 2 ) and the total branching fractions B(B 0 → π − ℓ + ν) = (1.45 ± 0.04stat ± 0.06syst) × 10 −4 (combined π − and π 0 decay channels assuming isospin symmetry), B(B + → ωℓ + ν) = (1.19 ± 0.16stat ± 0.09syst) × 10 −4and B(B + → ηℓ + ν) = (0.38 ± 0.05stat ± 0.05syst) × 10 −4 . We also measure B(B + → η ′ ℓ + ν) = (0.24 ± 0.08stat ± 0.03syst) × 10 −4 . We obtain values for the magnitude of the CKM matrix element |V ub | by direct comparison with three different QCD calculations in restricted q 2 ranges of B → πℓ + ν decays. From a simultaneous fit to the experimental data over the full q 2 range and the FNAL/MILC lattice QCD predictions, we obtain |V ub | = (3.25 ± 0.31) × 10 −3 , where the error is the combined experimental and theoretical uncertainty.

We search for the flavor-changing neutral-current decays B → K ( * ) νν, and the invisible decays J/ψ → νν and ψ(2S) → νν via B → K ( * ) J/ψ and B → K ( * ) ψ(2S) respectively, using a data sample of 471 × 10 6 BB pairs collected by the BABAR experiment. We fully reconstruct the hadronic decay of one of the B mesons in the Υ (4S) → BB decay, and search for the B → K ( * ) νν decay in the rest of the event. We observe no significant excess of signal decays over background and report branching fraction upper limits of B(B + → K + νν) < 3.7 × 10 −5 , B(B 0 → K 0 νν) < 8.1 × 10 −5 , B(B + → K * + νν) < 11.6 × 10 −5 , B(B 0 → K * 0 νν) < 9.3 × 10 −5 , and combined upper limits of B(B → Kνν) < 3.2 × 10 −5 and B(B → K * νν) < 7.9 × 10 −5 , all at the 90% confidence level. For the invisible quarkonium decays, we report branching fraction upper limits of B(J/ψ → νν) < 3.9×10 −3 and B(ψ(2S) → νν) < 15.5 × 10 −3 at the 90% confidence level. Using the improved kinematic resolution achieved from hadronic reconstruction, we also provide partial branching fraction limits for the B → K ( * ) νν decays over the full kinematic spectrum.