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Improved limits on the lepton-flavor violating decays $\tau^{-} \to \ell^{-} \ell^{+} \ell^{-}$

BaBar

Collaboration

Aug, 2007

7 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.Lett. 99 (2007) 251803

e-Print:

0708.3650 [hep-ex]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.251803

PDG:

{{\mathit \tau}^{-}}

\rightarrow

{{\mathit \mu}^{-}}{{\mathit \mu}^{+}}{{\mathit \mu}^{-}}

Report number:

SLAC-PUB-12766,
BABAR-PUB-07-59,
BABAR-PUB-07-059

Experiments:

SLAC-PEP2-BABAR

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Abstract: (arXiv)

A search for the neutrinoless, lepton-flavor violating decay of the tau lepton into three charged leptons has been performed using 376 fb^{-1} of data collected at an e^+e^- center-of-mass energy around 10.58 GeV with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II storage rings. In all six decay modes considered, the numbers of events found in data are compatible with the background expectations. Upper limits on the branching fractions are set in the range (4-8) x 10^{-8} at 90% confidence level.

Note:

7 pages, 1 postscript figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

11.30.Hv
14.60.Fg
13.35.Dx
electron positron: colliding beams
electron positron: annihilation
tau: pair production
tau-: leptonic decay
final state: (lepton+ 2lepton-)
flavor: violation
tau-: branching ratio

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