Search for lepton-flavor-violating τ decays into three leptons with 719 million produced τ+τ- pairs

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作者
Hayasaka, K. [1 ]
Inami, K. [1 ]
Miyazaki, Y. [1 ]
Arinstein, K. [2 ,32 ]
Aulchenko, V. [2 ,32 ]
Aushev, T. [14 ,20 ]
Bakich, A. M. [38 ]
Bay, A. [20 ]
Belous, K. [12 ]
Bhardwaj, V. [34 ]
Bischofberger, M. [25 ]
Bozek, A. [29 ]
Bracko, M. [15 ,22 ]
Browder, T. E. [9 ]
Chang, M. -C. [5 ]
Chang, P. [28 ]
Chen, A. [26 ]
Chen, P. [28 ]
Cheon, B. G. [8 ]
Chiang, C. -C. [28 ]
Cho, I. -S. [46 ]
Choi, Y. [37 ]
Dalseno, J. [23 ,39 ]
Drutskoy, A. [4 ]
Eidelman, S. [2 ,32 ]
Epifanov, D. [2 ,32 ]
Feindt, M. [17 ]
Gabyshev, N. [2 ,32 ]
Goldenzweig, P. [4 ]
Golob, B. [15 ,21 ]
Ha, H. [18 ]
Haba, J. [10 ]
Han, B. -Y. [18 ]
Hayashii, H. [25 ]
Hoshi, Y. [41 ]
Hou, W. -S. [28 ]
Hsiung, Y. B. [28 ]
Hyun, H. J. [19 ]
Iijima, T. [1 ]
Itoh, R. [10 ]
Iwabuchi, M. [46 ]
Iwasaki, M. [42 ]
Iwasaki, Y. [10 ]
Kang, J. H. [46 ]
Kawasaki, T. [31 ]
Kiesling, C. [23 ]
Kim, H. J. [19 ]
Kim, H. O. [19 ]
Kim, J. H. [37 ]
Kim, S. K. [36 ]
机构
[1] Nagoya Univ, Nagoya, Aichi 4648601, Japan
[2] Budker Inst Nucl Phys, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
[3] Charles Univ Prague, Fac Math & Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[4] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH USA
[5] Fu Jen Catholic Univ, Dept Phys, Taipei, Taiwan
[6] Univ Giessen, Giessen, Germany
[7] Grad Univ Adv Studies, Hayama, Japan
[8] Hanyang Univ, Seoul 133791, South Korea
[9] Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[10] High Energy Accelerator Res Org KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
[11] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[12] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[13] Inst High Energy Phys, Vienna, Austria
[14] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[15] Jozef Stefan Inst, Ljubljana, Slovenia
[16] Kanagawa Univ, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
[17] Karlsruhe Inst Technol, Inst Expt Kernphys, Karlsruhe, Germany
[18] Korea Univ, Seoul, South Korea
[19] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Taegu 702701, South Korea
[20] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[21] Univ Ljubljana, Fac Math & Phys, Ljubljana, Slovenia
[22] Univ Maribor, SLO-2000 Maribor, Slovenia
[23] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[24] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia
[25] Nara Womens Univ, Nara 630, Japan
[26] Natl Cent Univ, Chungli 32054, Taiwan
[27] Natl United Univ, Miaoli, Taiwan
[28] Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Phys, Taipei, Taiwan
[29] H Niewodniczanski Inst Nucl Phys, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland
[30] Nippon Dent Univ, Niigata, Japan
[31] Niigata Univ, Niigata, Japan
[32] Novosibirsk State Univ, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
[33] Osaka City Univ, Osaka 558, Japan
[34] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[35] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China
[36] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul, South Korea
[37] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Suwon, South Korea
[38] Univ Sydney, Sch Phys, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
[39] Tech Univ Munich, D-8046 Garching, Germany
[40] Toho Univ, Funabashi, Chiba 274, Japan
[41] Tohoku Gakuin Univ, Tagajo, Miyagi, Japan
[42] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 113, Japan
[43] Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Tokyo 158, Japan
[44] Tokyo Univ Agr & Technol, Tokyo, Japan
[45] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, IPNAS, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[46] Yonsei Univ, Seoul 120749, South Korea
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会; 日本学术振兴会; 中国国家自然科学基金; 瑞士国家科学基金会;
关键词
Tau; Lepton flavor violation; B factory; IDENTIFICATION; SIMULATION;
D O I
10.1016/j.physletb.2010.03.037
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present a search for lepton-flavor-violating tau decays into three leptons (electrons or muons) using 782 fb(-1) of data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) collider. No evidence for these decays is observed and we set 90% confidence level upper limits on the branching fractions between 1.5 x 10(-8) and 2.7 x 10(-8). (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:139 / 143
页数:5
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