Search for lepton and baryon number violating τ- decays into (Λ)over-bar-π- and Λπ-

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作者
Miyazaki, Y [1 ]
Abe, K
Abe, K
Adachi, I
Aihara, H
Arinstein, K
Asano, Y
Aulchenko, V
Aushev, T
Bahinipati, S
Bakich, AM
Balagura, V
Barberio, E
Bedny, I
Bitenc, U
Bizjak, I
Blyth, S
Bondar, A
Bozek, A
Bracko, M
Brodzicka, J
Browder, TE
Chang, P
Chao, Y
Chen, A
Chen, KF
Chen, WT
Cheon, BG
Chistov, R
Choi, Y
Chuvikov, A
Cole, S
Dalseno, J
Danilov, M
Dash, M
Dong, L
Drutskoy, A
Eidelman, S
Enari, Y
Epifanov, D
Fratina, S
Gabyshev, N
Garmash, A
Gershon, T
Go, A
Gokhroo, G
Golob, B
Gorisek, A
Ha, HC
Hayasaka, K
机构
[1] Nagoya Univ, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
[2] Budker Inst Nucl Phys, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
[3] Chiba Univ, Chiba, Japan
[4] Chonnam Natl Univ, Kwangju, South Korea
[5] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[6] Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[7] KEK, High Energy Accelerator Res Org, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
[8] Hiroshima Inst Technol, Hiroshima, Japan
[9] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[10] Inst High Energy Phys, Vienna, Austria
[11] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[12] Jozef Stefan Inst, Ljubljana, Slovenia
[13] Kanagawa Univ, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
[14] Korea Univ, Seoul 136701, South Korea
[15] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Taegu 702701, South Korea
[16] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Swiss Fed Inst Technol, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[17] Univ Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
[18] Univ Maribor, SLO-2000 Maribor, Slovenia
[19] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
[20] Nara Womens Univ, Nara 630, Japan
[21] Natl Cent Univ, Chungli 32054, Taiwan
[22] Natl United Univ, Miaoli, Taiwan
[23] Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Phys, Taipei 10764, Taiwan
[24] H Niewodniczanski Inst Nucl Phys, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland
[25] Nippon Dent Univ, Niigata, Japan
[26] Niigata Univ, Niigata, Japan
[27] Nova Gorica Polytech, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
[28] Osaka City Univ, Osaka 558, Japan
[29] Osaka Univ, Osaka, Japan
[30] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[31] Peking Univ, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[32] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[33] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China
[34] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul, South Korea
[35] Shinshu Univ, Nagano, Japan
[36] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Suwon, South Korea
[37] Univ Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
[38] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[39] Toho Univ, Funabashi, Chiba 274, Japan
[40] Tohoku Gakuin Univ, Tagajo, Miyagi, Japan
[41] Tohoku Univ, Sendai, Miyagi 980, Japan
[42] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo, Japan
[43] Tokyo Inst Technol, Tokyo 152, Japan
[44] Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Tokyo 158, Japan
[45] Tokyo Univ Agr & Technol, Tokyo, Japan
[46] Univ Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[47] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[48] Yonsei Univ, Seoul 120749, South Korea
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10.1016/j.physletb.2005.10.024
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We have searched for tau lepton decays, tau(-) -> Lambda($) over bar pi(-) and tau -> Lambda pi(-), that simultaneously violate the conservation of the lepton (L) and baryon (B) number using a data sample of 154 fb(-1) collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB e(+)e(-) asymmetric-energy collider. No evidence for a signal was found in either of the decay modes and we set the following upper limits for the branching fractions: B(tau(-) -> Lambda($) over bar pi(-)) < 1.4 x 10(-7) and B(tau(-) -> Lambda($) over bar pi(-)) < 0.72 x 10(-7) at the 90% confidence level. This is the first search ever performed for these modes. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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