Measurement of the mass of the tau lepton

Collaboration
Jul, 1992
16 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 69 (1992) 3021-3024
Report number:
  • SLAC-PUB-5870,
  • BEPC-EP-92-01
Experiments:

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Abstract: (APS)
The mass of the τ lepton has been measured at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider using the Beijing Spectrometer. A search near threshold for e+e−→τ+τ− was performed. Candidate events were identified by requiring that one τ decay via τ→eνν¯, and the other via τ→μνν¯. The mass value, obtained from a fit to the energy dependence of the τ+τ− cross section, is mτ=1776.9−0.5+0.4±0.2 MeV.
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • colliding beams: electron positron
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • annihilation: electron positron
  • tau: electroproduction
  • electroproduction: tau
  • tau: pair production
  • pair production: tau
  • tau: leptonic decay
  • leptonic decay: tau