Searches for violation of lepton flavour and baryon number in tau lepton decays at LHCb

Collaboration
Apr 16, 2013
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 724 (2013) 36-45
  • Published: Jul 9, 2013
e-Print:
Report number:
  • LHCB-PAPER-2013-014,
  • CERN-PH-EP-2013-062
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Searches for the lepton flavour violating decay τ−→μ−μ+μ− and the lepton flavour and baryon number violating decays τ−→p¯μ+μ− and τ−→pμ−μ− have been carried out using proton–proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 , taken by the LHCb experiment at s=7 TeV . No evidence has been found for any signal, and limits have been set at 90% confidence level on the branching fractions: B(τ−→μ−μ+μ−)<8.0×10−8 , B(τ−→p¯μ+μ−)<3.3×10−7 and B(τ−→pμ−μ−)<4.4×10−7 . The results for the τ−→p¯μ+μ− and τ−→pμ−μ− decay modes represent the first direct experimental limits on these channels.
Note:
  • 20 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Physics Letters B
  • lepton: flavor: violation
  • tau: leptonic decay
  • tau: semileptonic decay
  • baryon number: violation
  • p p: scattering
  • LHC-B
  • tau-: branching ratio: upper limit
  • tau- --> 2muon+ muon-
  • tau- --> anti-p muon+ muon-
  • tau- --> p 2muon-
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