Search for the lepton flavour violating decay τ [superscript −] → μ [superscript −] μ [superscript +] μ [superscript −]

A search for the lepton flavour violating decay τ [superscript −] → μ [superscript −] μ [superscript +] μ [superscript −] is performed with the LHCb experiment. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb[superscript −1] of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of...

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Main Authors: Counts, Ian Thomas Hunt, Williams, Michael, Ilten, Philip J
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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Published: Springer-Verlag 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96816
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description A search for the lepton flavour violating decay τ [superscript −] → μ [superscript −] μ [superscript +] μ [superscript −] is performed with the LHCb experiment. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb[superscript −1] of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and 2.0 fb[superscript −1] at 8 TeV. No evidence is found for a signal, and a limit is set at 90% confidence level on the branching fraction, B(τ [superscript −] → μ [superscript −] μ [superscript +] μ [superscript −]) < 4.6 × 10[superscript −8].
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spelling mit-1721.1/968162023-02-26T06:00:24Z Search for the lepton flavour violating decay τ [superscript −] → μ [superscript −] μ [superscript +] μ [superscript −] Counts, Ian Thomas Hunt Williams, Michael Ilten, Philip J Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Counts, Ian Thomas Hunt Ilten, Philip James Williams, Michael A search for the lepton flavour violating decay τ [superscript −] → μ [superscript −] μ [superscript +] μ [superscript −] is performed with the LHCb experiment. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb[superscript −1] of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and 2.0 fb[superscript −1] at 8 TeV. No evidence is found for a signal, and a limit is set at 90% confidence level on the branching fraction, B(τ [superscript −] → μ [superscript −] μ [superscript +] μ [superscript −]) < 4.6 × 10[superscript −8]. National Science Foundation (U.S.) 2015-04-27T12:52:25Z 2015-04-27T12:52:25Z 2015-02 2015-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1029-8479 1126-6708 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96816 Aaij, R., B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, J. Albrecht, et al. “Search for the Lepton Flavour Violating Decay τ [superscript −] → μ [superscript −] μ [superscript +] μ [superscript −].” J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, no. 2 (February 2015). © 2015 CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb Collaboration https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8285-3346 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4670-1334 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5534-1732 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2015)121 Journal of High Energy Physics Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer-Verlag Springer-Verlag
spellingShingle Counts, Ian Thomas Hunt
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Ilten, Philip J
Search for the lepton flavour violating decay τ [superscript −] → μ [superscript −] μ [superscript +] μ [superscript −]
title Search for the lepton flavour violating decay τ [superscript −] → μ [superscript −] μ [superscript +] μ [superscript −]
title_full Search for the lepton flavour violating decay τ [superscript −] → μ [superscript −] μ [superscript +] μ [superscript −]
title_fullStr Search for the lepton flavour violating decay τ [superscript −] → μ [superscript −] μ [superscript +] μ [superscript −]
title_full_unstemmed Search for the lepton flavour violating decay τ [superscript −] → μ [superscript −] μ [superscript +] μ [superscript −]
title_short Search for the lepton flavour violating decay τ [superscript −] → μ [superscript −] μ [superscript +] μ [superscript −]
title_sort search for the lepton flavour violating decay τ superscript μ superscript μ superscript μ superscript
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