Search for the rare decay B+ -> l nu gamma at Belle and Belle II

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Authors	Moritz Gelb
Date	March 13, 2018
Belle II Number	BELLE2-CONF-PROC-2018-005
Abstract	The Belle collaboration reported an upper limit on the partial branching fraction on the rare decay $\mathrm{B}^+ \to \ell^+ \nu_{\ell} \gamma$ using the full dataset recorded at the $\mathrm{\Upsilon(4S)}$ resonance. The decay allows for the extraction of the first inverse momentum of the light-cone distribution amplitude, an important parameter for QCD factorization for non-leptonic $\mathrm{ B} $ decays. We present a MC study applying an improved tagging algorithm developed for the Belle~II experiment. We observe an increase of signal reconstruction efficiency of a factor of three, improving the expected sensitivity to $ 3.8\sigma $. Further we give an outlook for the sensitivity measuring $\mathrm{B}^+ \to \ell^+ \nu_{\ell} \gamma$ with the Belle~II experiment.