Measurement of Moments of the Hadronic-Mass and -Energy Spectrum in Inclusive Semileptonic $\bar{B} \to X_{c} \ell^{-} \bar{\nu}$ Decays

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We present a measurement of moments of the inclusive hadronic-mass and -energy spectrum in semileptonic $\bar{B} \to X_{c} \ell^{-} \bar{\nu}$ decays.

• This study is based on a sample of 232 million $\Upsilon(4S) \to B\bar{B}$ decays recorded by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II $e^+e^-$-storage rings.
• We reconstruct the semileptonic decay by identifying a lepton in events tagged by a fully reconstructed hadronic decay of the second $B$ meson.
• We report preliminary results for the moments $<m_X^k>$ with $k=1,...,6$ and $<n_X^k>$ with $k=2,4,6$ and $n_X^2 = m_X^2 c^4 - 2 \tilde{\Lambda} E_X + \tilde{\Lambda}^2$, with $m_X$ the mass of the hadronic system, $E_X$ its energy, and $\tilde\Lambda$ a constant of $0.65 \mathrm{GeV}$, for different minimal lepton momenta between 0.8 and $1.9 \mathrm{GeV}/c$ measured in the $B$-meson rest frame.