Searches for Lepton Flavor Violation in the Decays tau{sup +}-->e{sup +}-{gamma} and {tau}{sup +}-->{mu}{sup +}-{gamma}

Journal Article · Fri Jan 15 04:00:00 EST 2010 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.104.021802· OSTI ID:21386896

Aubert, B; Karyotakis, Y; Lees, J P; Poireau, V; Prencipe, E; Prudent, X; Tisserand, V ^[1]; Garra Tico, J; Grauges, E ^[2]; Martinelli, M; Palano, A; Pappagallo, M ^[3]; Eigen, G; Stugu, B; Sun, L ^[4]; Battaglia, M; Brown, D N; Hooberman, B; Kerth, L T; Kolomensky, Yu G ^[5]

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

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{sup 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{sup +}-->e{sup +}-{gamma})<3.3x10{sup -8} and B({tau}{sup +}-->{mu}{sup +}-{gamma})<4.4x10{sup -8} at 90% confidence level.

• OSTI ID: 21386896
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 104; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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