Searches for Lepton flavor violation in the decays tau{+/-}-->e{+/-}gamma and tau{+/-}-->mu{+/-}gamma

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doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.021802

Searches for Lepton flavor violation in the decays tau{+/-}-->e{+/-}gamma and tau{+/-}-->mu{+/-}gamma

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Jan 15;104(2):021802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.021802. Epub 2010 Jan 14.

Authors

B Aubert¹, Y Karyotakis, J P Lees, V Poireau, E Prencipe, X Prudent, V Tisserand, J Garra Tico, E Grauges, M Martinelli, A Palano, M Pappagallo, G Eigen, B Stugu, L Sun, M Battaglia, D N Brown, B Hooberman, L T Kerth, Yu G Kolomensky, G Lynch, I L Osipenkov, K Tackmann, T Tanabe, C M Hawkes, N Soni, A T Watson, H Koch, T Schroeder, D J Asgeirsson, C Hearty, T S Mattison, J A McKenna, M Barrett, A Khan, A Randle-Conde, V E Blinov, A D Bukin, A R Buzykaev, V P Druzhinin, V B Golubev, A P Onuchin, S I Serednyakov, Yu I Skovpen, E P Solodov, K Yu Todyshev, M Bondioli, S Curry, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, A J Lankford, P Lund, M Mandelkern, E C Martin, D P Stoker, H Atmacan, J W Gary, F Liu, O Long, G M Vitug, Z Yasin, V Sharma, C Campagnari, T M Hong, D Kovalskyi, M A Mazur, J D Richman, T W Beck, A M Eisner, C A Heusch, J Kroseberg, W S Lockman, A J Martinez, T Schalk, B A Schumm, A Seiden, L Wang, L O Winstrom, C H Cheng, D A Doll, B Echenard, F Fang, D G Hitlin, I Narsky, P Ongmongkolkul, T Piatenko, F C Porter, R Andreassen, G Mancinelli, B T Meadows, K Mishra, M D Sokoloff, P C Bloom, W T Ford, A Gaz, J F Hirschauer, M Nagel, U Nauenberg, J G Smith, S R Wagner, R Ayad, W H Toki, E Feltresi, A Hauke, H Jasper, T M Karbach, J Merkel, A Petzold, B Spaan, K Wacker, M J Kobel, R Nogowski, K R Schubert, R Schwierz, D Bernard, E Latour, M Verderi, P J Clark, S Playfer, J E Watson, M Andreotti, D Bettoni, C Bozzi, R Calabrese, A Cecchi, G Cibinetto, E Fioravanti, P Franchini, E Luppi, M Munerato, M Negrini, A Petrella, L Piemontese, V Santoro, R Baldini-Ferroli, A Calcaterra, R de Sangro, G Finocchiaro, S Pacetti, P Patteri, I M Peruzzi, M Piccolo, M Rama, A Zallo, R Contri, E Guido, M Lo Vetere, M R Monge, S Passaggio, C Patrignani, E Robutti, S Tosi, M Morii, A Adametz, J Marks, S Schenk, U Uwer, F U Bernlochner, H M Lacker, T Lueck, A Volk, P D Dauncey, M Tibbetts, P K Behera, M J Charles, U Mallik, J Cochran, H B Crawley, L Dong, V Eyges, W T Meyer, S Prell, E I Rosenberg, A E Rubin, Y Y Gao, A V Gritsan, Z J Guo, N Arnaud, A D'Orazio, M Davier, D Derkach, J Firmino da Costa, G Grosdidier, F Le Diberder, V Lepeltier, A M Lutz, B Malaescu, P Roudeau, M H Schune, J Serrano, V Sordini, A Stocchi, G Wormser, D J Lange, D M Wright, I Bingham, J P Burke, C A Chavez, J R Fry, E Gabathuler, R Gamet, D E Hutchcroft, D J Payne, C Touramanis, A J Bevan, C K Clarke, F Di Lodovico, R Sacco, M Sigamani, G Cowan, S Paramesvaran, A C Wren, D N Brown, C L Davis, A G Denig, M Fritsch, W Gradl, A Hafner, K E Alwyn, D Bailey, R J Barlow, G Jackson, G D Lafferty, T J West, J I Yi, J Anderson, C Chen, A Jawahery, D A Roberts, G Simi, J M Tuggle, C Dallapiccola, E Salvati, R Cowan, D Dujmic, P H Fisher, S W Henderson, G Sciolla, M Spitznagel, R K Yamamoto, M Zhao, P M Patel, S H Robertson, M Schram, P Biassoni, A Lazzaro, V Lombardo, F Palombo, S Stracka, L Cremaldi, R Godang, R Kroeger, P Sonnek, D J Summers, H W Zhao, X Nguyen, M Simard, P Taras, H Nicholson, G De Nardo, L Lista, D Monorchio, G Onorato, C Sciacca, G Raven, H L Snoek, C P Jessop, K J Knoepfel, J M Losecco, W F Wang, L A Corwin, K Honscheid, H Kagan, R Kass, J P Morris, A M Rahimi, S J Sekula, N L Blount, J Brau, R Frey, O Igonkina, J A Kolb, M Lu, R Rahmat, N B Sinev, D Strom, J Strube, E Torrence, G Castelli, N Gagliardi, M Margoni, M Morandin, M Posocco, M Rotondo, F Simonetto, R Stroili, C Voci, P Del Amo Sanchez, E Ben-Haim, G R Bonneaud, H Briand, J Chauveau, O Hamon, Ph Leruste, G Marchiori, J Ocariz, A Perez, J Prendki, S Sitt, L Gladney, M Biasini, E Manoni, C Angelini, G Batignani, S Bettarini, G Calderini, M Carpinelli, A Cervelli, F Forti, M A Giorgi, A Lusiani, M Morganti, N Neri, E Paoloni, G Rizzo, J J Walsh, D Lopes Pegna, C Lu, J Olsen, A J S Smith, A V Telnov, F Anulli, E Baracchini, G Cavoto, R Faccini, F Ferrarotto, F Ferroni, M Gaspero, P D Jackson, L Li Gioi, M A Mazzoni, S Morganti, G Piredda, F Renga, C Voena, M Ebert, T Hartmann, H Schröder, R Waldi, T Adye, B Franek, E O Olaiya, F F Wilson, S Emery, L Esteve, G Hamel de Monchenault, W Kozanecki, G Vasseur, Ch Yèche, M Zito, M T Allen, D Aston, D J Bard, R Bartoldus, J F Benitez, R Cenci, J P Coleman, M R Convery, J C Dingfelder, J Dorfan, G P Dubois-Felsmann, W Dunwoodie, R C Field, M Franco Sevilla, B G Fulsom, A M Gabareen, M T Graham, P Grenier, C Hast, W R Innes, J Kaminski, M H Kelsey, H Kim, P Kim, M L Kocian, D W G S Leith, S Li, B Lindquist, S Luitz, V Luth, H L Lynch, D B Macfarlane, H Marsiske, R Messner, D R Muller, H Neal, S Nelson, C P O'Grady, I Ofte, M Perl, B N Ratcliff, A Roodman, A A Salnikov, R H Schindler, J Schwiening, A Snyder, D Su, M K Sullivan, K Suzuki, S K Swain, J M Thompson, J Va'vra, A P Wagner, M Weaver, C A West, W J Wisniewski, M Wittgen, D H Wright, H W Wulsin, A K Yarritu, C C Young, V Ziegler, X R Chen, H Liu, W Park, M V Purohit, R M White, J R Wilson, M Bellis, P R Burchat, A J Edwards, T S Miyashita, S Ahmed, M S Alam, J A Ernst, B Pan, M A Saeed, S B Zain, A Soffer, S M Spanier, B J Wogsland, R Eckmann, J L Ritchie, A M Ruland, C J Schilling, R F Schwitters, B C Wray, B W Drummond, J M Izen, X C Lou, F Bianchi, D Gamba, M Pelliccioni, M Bomben, L Bosisio, C Cartaro, G Della Ricca, L Lanceri, L Vitale, V Azzolini, N Lopez-March, F Martinez-Vidal, D A Milanes, A Oyanguren, J Albert, Sw Banerjee, B Bhuyan, H H F Choi, K Hamano, G J King, R Kowalewski, M J Lewczuk, C D Lindsay, C B Locke, I M Nugent, J M Roney, R J Sobie, T J Gershon, P F Harrison, J Ilic, T E Latham, G B Mohanty, E M T Puccio, H R Band, X Chen, S Dasu, K T Flood, Y Pan, R Prepost, C O Vuosalo, S L Wu; BABAR Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux, France.

PMID: 20366586
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.021802

Abstract

Searches for lepton-flavor-violating decays of a tau lepton to a lighter mass lepton and a photon have been performed with the entire data set of (963+/-7)x10{6} tau decays collected by the BABAR detector near the Upsilon(4S), Upsilon(3S) and Upsilon(2S) resonances. The searches yield no evidence of signals and we set upper limits on the branching fractions of B(tau{+/-}-->e{+/-}gamma)<3.3x10{-8} and B(tau{+/-}-->mu{+/-}gamma)<4.4x10{-8} at 90% confidence level.