Search for baryon and lepton number violating decays of the tau lepton

We have searched for five decay modes of the τ lepton that simultaneously violate lepton and baryon number: τ-→p̄γ, τ-→p̄π0, τ-→p̄η, τ-→p̄2π0, and τ-→p̄π0η. The data used in the search were collected with the CLEO II detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring. The integrated luminosity of the dat...

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Những tác giả chính: Godang, R, Kinoshita, K, Lai, I, Pomianowski, P, Schrenk, S, Bonvicini, G, Cinabro, D, Greene, R, Perera, L, Zhou, G, Chan, S, Eigen, G, Lipeles, E, Miller, J, Schmidtler, M, Shapiro, A, Sun, WM, Urheim, J, Weinstein, A, Wurthwein, F, Jaffe, D, Masek, G, Paar, H, Potter, E, Prell, S
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: 1999
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Tóm tắt:We have searched for five decay modes of the τ lepton that simultaneously violate lepton and baryon number: τ-→p̄γ, τ-→p̄π0, τ-→p̄η, τ-→p̄2π0, and τ-→p̄π0η. The data used in the search were collected with the CLEO II detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring. The integrated luminosity of the data sample is 4.7 fb-1, corresponding to the production of 4.3 × 106 τ+τ- events. No evidence is found for any of the decays, resulting in much improved upper limits on the branching fractions for the two-body decays and first upper limits for the three-body decays. ©1999 The American Physical Society.