Search for lepton-flavor-violating τ decay into a lepton and an f0 (980) meson

Y. Miyazaki, I. Adachi, H. Aihara, K. Arinstein, T. Aushev, A. M. Bakich, A. Bay, I. Bedny, U. Bitenc, A. Bondar, A. Bozek, M. Bračko, T. E. Browder, A. Chen, B. G. Cheon, I. S. Cho, Y. Choi, J. Dalseno, M. Dash, A. DrutskoyS. Eidelman, D. Epifanov, N. Gabyshev, P. Goldenzweig, H. Ha, J. Haba, K. Hara, K. Hayasaka, H. Hayashii, D. Heffernan, Y. Horii, Y. Hoshi, W. S. Hou, H. J. Hyun, T. Iijima, K. Inami, A. Ishikawa, M. Iwasaki, Y. Iwasaki, D. H. Kah, H. Kaji, H. Kawai, T. Kawasaki, H. Kichimi, H. O. Kim, Y. J. Kim, S. Korpar, P. Križan, P. Krokovny, R. Kumar, A. Kuzmin, S. H. Kyeong, J. S. Lee, J. Li, D. Liventsev, R. Louvot, F. Mandl, S. McOnie, T. Medvedeva, H. Miyata, T. Nagamine, E. Nakano, M. Nakao, H. Nakazawa, O. Nitoh, S. Ogawa, T. Ohshima, S. Okuno, H. Ozaki, C. W. Park, H. Park, H. K. Park, R. Pestotnik, L. E. Piilonen, A. Poluektov, H. Sahoo, Y. Sakai, O. Schneider, K. Senyo, M. Shapkin, C. P. Shen, J. G. Shiu, B. Shwartz, S. Stanič, M. Starič, T. Sumiyoshi, M. Tanaka, G. N. Taylor, Y. Teramoto, I. Tikhomirov, S. Uehara, T. Uglov, Y. Unno, S. Uno, Y. Usuki, G. Varner, A. Vinokurova, C. H. Wang, P. Wang, X. L. Wang, Y. Watanabe, E. Won, B. D. Yabsley, Y. Yamashita, Y. Yusa, Z. P. Zhang, V. Zhilich, V. Zhulanov, T. Zivko, A. Zupanc, O. Zyukova

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Abstract

We search for lepton-flavor-violating τ decays into a lepton (electron or muon) and an f0 (980) meson using 671 fb-1 of data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+ e- collider. No events are observed and we set the following 90% C.L. upper limits on the branching fraction products: B (τ- → e- f0 (980)) × B (f0 (980) → π+ π-) < 3.2 × 10- 8 and B (τ- → μ- f0 (980)) × B (f0 (980) → π+ π-) < 3.4 × 10- 8. This is the first search performed for these modes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)317-322
Number of pages6
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume672
Issue number4-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009 Mar 2

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We are grateful to M.J. Herrero for stimulating discussions. We thank the KEKB group for the excellent operation of the accelerator, the KEK cryogenics group for the efficient operation of the solenoid, and the KEK computer group and the National Institute of Informatics for valuable computing and SINET3 network support. We acknowledge support from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and the Tau-Lepton Physics Research Center of Nagoya University; the Australian Research Council and the Australian Department of Industry, Innovation, Science and Research; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos. 10575109, 10775142, 10875115 and 10825524; the Department of Science and Technology of India; the BK21 program of the Ministry of Education of Korea, the CHEP src program and Basic Research program (grant No. R01-2008-000-10477-0) of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation; the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education; the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the Russian Federal Agency for Atomic Energy; the Slovenian Research Agency; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the National Science Council and the Ministry of Education of Taiwan; and the US Department of Energy. This work is supported by a Grant-in-Aid from MEXT for Science Research in a Priority Area (“New Development of Flavor Physics”), and from JSPS for Creative Scientific Research (“Evolution of Tau-lepton Physics”).

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  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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