Searches for violation of lepton flavour and baryon number in tau lepton decays at LHCb
Searches for the lepton flavour violating decay $\tau^-\rightarrow \mu^-\mu^+\mu^-$ and the lepton flavour and baryon number violating decays $\tau^-\rightarrow \bar{p}\mu^+\mu^-$ and $\tau^-\rightarrow p\mu^-\mu^-$ have been carried out using proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integr...
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| author | collaboration, L Aaij, R Beteta, C Adeva, B Adinolfi, M Adrover, C Affolder, A Ajaltouni, Z Albrecht, J Alessio, F Alexander, M Ali, S Alkhazov, G Cartelle, P Jr, A Amato, S Amerio, S Amhis, Y Anderlini, L Anderson, J Andreassen, R Appleby, R Gutierrez, O Archilli, F Artamonov, A |
| author_facet | collaboration, L Aaij, R Beteta, C Adeva, B Adinolfi, M Adrover, C Affolder, A Ajaltouni, Z Albrecht, J Alessio, F Alexander, M Ali, S Alkhazov, G Cartelle, P Jr, A Amato, S Amerio, S Amhis, Y Anderlini, L Anderson, J Andreassen, R Appleby, R Gutierrez, O Archilli, F Artamonov, A |
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| description | Searches for the lepton flavour violating decay $\tau^-\rightarrow \mu^-\mu^+\mu^-$ and the lepton flavour and baryon number violating decays $\tau^-\rightarrow \bar{p}\mu^+\mu^-$ and $\tau^-\rightarrow p\mu^-\mu^-$ 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 $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV. No evidence has been found for any signal, and limits have been set at 90% confidence level on the branching fractions: $\cal B(\tau^-\rightarrow \mu^-\mu^+\mu^-) < 8.0 \times 10^{-8}$, $\cal B(\tau^-\rightarrow \bar{p}\mu^+\mu^-) < 3.3 \times 10^{-7}$ and $\cal B(\tau^-\rightarrow p\mu^-\mu^-) < 4.4 \times 10^{-7}$. The results for the $\tau^-\rightarrow \bar{p}\mu^+\mu^-$ and $\tau^-\rightarrow p\mu^-\mu^-$ decay modes represent the first direct experimental limits on these channels. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:009ac53e-b6ef-4ec9-b195-4d3f8aa9c0902022-03-26T08:30:34ZSearches for violation of lepton flavour and baryon number in tau lepton decays at LHCbJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:009ac53e-b6ef-4ec9-b195-4d3f8aa9c090EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2013collaboration, LAaij, RBeteta, CAdeva, BAdinolfi, MAdrover, CAffolder, AAjaltouni, ZAlbrecht, JAlessio, FAlexander, MAli, SAlkhazov, GCartelle, PJr, AAmato, SAmerio, SAmhis, YAnderlini, LAnderson, JAndreassen, RAppleby, RGutierrez, OArchilli, FArtamonov, ASearches for the lepton flavour violating decay $\tau^-\rightarrow \mu^-\mu^+\mu^-$ and the lepton flavour and baryon number violating decays $\tau^-\rightarrow \bar{p}\mu^+\mu^-$ and $\tau^-\rightarrow p\mu^-\mu^-$ 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 $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV. No evidence has been found for any signal, and limits have been set at 90% confidence level on the branching fractions: $\cal B(\tau^-\rightarrow \mu^-\mu^+\mu^-) < 8.0 \times 10^{-8}$, $\cal B(\tau^-\rightarrow \bar{p}\mu^+\mu^-) < 3.3 \times 10^{-7}$ and $\cal B(\tau^-\rightarrow p\mu^-\mu^-) < 4.4 \times 10^{-7}$. The results for the $\tau^-\rightarrow \bar{p}\mu^+\mu^-$ and $\tau^-\rightarrow p\mu^-\mu^-$ decay modes represent the first direct experimental limits on these channels. |
| spellingShingle | collaboration, L Aaij, R Beteta, C Adeva, B Adinolfi, M Adrover, C Affolder, A Ajaltouni, Z Albrecht, J Alessio, F Alexander, M Ali, S Alkhazov, G Cartelle, P Jr, A Amato, S Amerio, S Amhis, Y Anderlini, L Anderson, J Andreassen, R Appleby, R Gutierrez, O Archilli, F Artamonov, A Searches for violation of lepton flavour and baryon number in tau lepton decays at LHCb |
| title | Searches for violation of lepton flavour and baryon number in tau lepton
decays at LHCb |
| title_full | Searches for violation of lepton flavour and baryon number in tau lepton
decays at LHCb |
| title_fullStr | Searches for violation of lepton flavour and baryon number in tau lepton
decays at LHCb |
| title_full_unstemmed | Searches for violation of lepton flavour and baryon number in tau lepton
decays at LHCb |
| title_short | Searches for violation of lepton flavour and baryon number in tau lepton
decays at LHCb |
| title_sort | searches for violation of lepton flavour and baryon number in tau lepton decays at lhcb |
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