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$|V_{ub}|$ determination and testing of lepton flavour universality in semileptonic $B_c \rightarrow D^{(\ast)}$ decays

In light of prospects for measurements of $B_c \rightarrow D^{(\ast)} l ν$ decays in the upcoming Upgrade II of the LHC, we show that by using calculated $B_c \rightarrow D^{(\ast)}$ form factors competitive extraction of the $|V_{ub}|$ CKM matrix element from the $B_c \to D μ\barν_μ$ decay might be possible. To minimize experimental and theoretical uncertainties we provide the ratio $|V_{ub}|/|V_{cb}|$ by normalizing the $B_c \rightarrow D^{(\ast)} μ\barν_μ$ to $B_c \to J/ψμ\barν_μ$ decay. We also briefly examine the suggestion to extract $|V_{ub}|/|V_{cs}|$ from the theoretically interesting ratio of $B_c \rightarrow D^0 e \barν_{e}$ and $B_c \rightarrow B_s e \barν_{e}$ decay rates in the zero-recoil limit. With the present average value of $|V_{ub}|$, the predicted branching ratios are estimated to be $BR(B_c \to D^0 μ\barν_μ) = (2.4\pm 0.4)\cdot 10^{-5} $ and $BR(B_c \to D^{\ast} μ\barν_μ) = (7\pm3)\cdot 10^{-5} $, and the semileptonic ratios for testing the lepton flavour universality in these $B_c$ decays are $R_c(D^0) =0.64 \pm 0.05$ and $R_c(D^{\ast}) = 0.55 \pm 0.05$. We also provide $q^2$ distributions and various angular observables of $B_c \rightarrow D^{(\ast)} l ν$ decays.