Exclusive Branching-Fraction Measurements of Semileptonic {tau} Decays into Three Charged Hadrons, into {phi}{pi}{sup -}{nu}{sub {tau}}, and into {phi}K{sup -}{nu}{sub {tau}}

Journal Article · Fri Jan 11 04:00:00 EST 2008 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.100.011801· OSTI ID:21020911

Aubert, B; Bona, M; Boutigny, D; Couderc, F; Karyotakis, Y; Lees, J P; Poireau, V; Tisserand, V; Zghiche, A ^[1]; Grauges, E ^[2]; Palano, A ^[3]; Chen, J C; Qi, N D; Rong, G; Wang, P; Zhu, Y S ^[4]; Eigen, G; Ofte, I; Stugu, B ^[5]; Abrams, G S ^[6]

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1. Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, IN2P3/CNRS et Universite de Savoie, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux (France)
2. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
3. Universita di Bari, Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
4. Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100039 (China)
5. University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
6. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

Using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 342 fb{sup -1} collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II electron-positron storage ring operating at a center-of-mass energy near 10.58 GeV, we measure B({tau}{sup -}{yields}{pi}{sup -}{pi}{sup -}{pi}{sup +}{nu}{sub {tau}}(ex.K{sub S}{sup 0}))=(8.83{+-}0.01{+-}0.13)%, B({tau}{sup -}{yields}K{sup -}{pi}{sup -}{pi}{sup +}{nu}{sub {tau}}(ex.K{sub S}{sup 0}))=(0.273{+-}0.002{+-}0.009)%, B({tau}{sup -}{yields}K{sup -}{pi}{sup -}K{sup +}{nu}{sub {tau}})=(0.1346{+-}0.0010{+-}0.0036)%, and B({tau}{sup -}{yields}K{sup -}K{sup -}K{sup +}{nu}{sub {tau}})=(1.58{+-}0.13{+-}0.12)x10{sup -5}, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. These include significant improvements over previous measurements and a first measurement of B({tau}{sup -}{yields}K{sup -}K{sup -}K{sup +}{nu}{sub {tau}}) in which no resonance structure is assumed. We also report a first measurement of B({tau}{sup -}{yields}{phi}{pi}{sup -}{nu}{sub {tau}})=(3.42{+-}0.55{+-}0.25)x10{sup -5}, a new measurement of B({tau}{sup -}{yields}{phi}K{sup -}{nu}{sub {tau}})=(3.39{+-}0.20{+-}0.28)x10{sup -5} and a first upper limit on B({tau}{sup -}{yields}K{sup -}K{sup -}K{sup +}{nu}{sub {tau}}(ex.{phi}))

• OSTI ID: 21020911
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 100; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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