Measurement of the one-prong hadronic tau branching ratios at LEP

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Ackerstaff, K [1 ]
Alexander, G
Allison, J
Altekamp, N
Anderson, KJ
Anderson, S
Arcelli, S
Asai, S
Ashby, SF
Axen, D
Azuelos, G
Ball, AH
Barberio, E
Barlow, RJ
Bartoldus, R
Batley, JR
Baumann, S
Bechtluft, J
Beeston, C
Behnke, T
Bell, AN
Bell, KW
Bella, G
Bentvelsen, S
Bethke, S
Betts, S
Biebel, O
Biguzzi, A
Bird, SD
Blobel, V
Bloodworth, IJ
Bloomer, JE
Bobinski, M
Bock, P
Bonacorsi, D
Boutemeur, M
Braibant, S
Brigliadori, L
Brown, RM
Burckhart, HJ
Burgard, C
Burgin, R
Capiluppi, P
Carnegie, RK
Carter, AA
Carter, JR
Chang, CY
Charlton, DG
Chrisman, D
Clarke, PEL
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[1] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[2] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[3] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[4] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[5] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Phys, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[6] Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England
[7] Carleton Univ, Dept Phys, Ottawa Carleton Inst Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[8] Carleton Univ, Ctr Res Particle Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[9] CERN, European Org Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[10] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[11] Univ Chicago, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[12] Univ Freiburg, Fak Phys, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
[13] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Phys, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[14] Indiana Univ, Dept Phys, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[15] Queen Mary Univ London, London E1 4NS, England
[16] TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[17] Univ London Univ Coll, London WC1E 6BT, England
[18] Univ Manchester, Schuster Lab, Dept Phys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[19] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[20] Univ Montreal, Phys Nucl Lab, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
[21] Univ Oregon, Dept Phys, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[22] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[23] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
[24] Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[25] Univ Tokyo, Int Ctr Elementary Particle Phys, Tokyo 113, Japan
[26] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 113, Japan
[27] Kobe Univ, Kobe, Hyogo 657, Japan
[28] Brunel Univ, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England
[29] Weizmann Inst Sci, Particle Phys Dept, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
[30] Univ Hamburg, DESY, Inst Expt Phys 2, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
[31] Univ Victoria, Dept Phys, Victoria, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[32] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[33] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2J1, Canada
[34] Duke Univ, Dept Phys, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[35] Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
[36] Inst Nucl Res, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
[37] Univ Munich, Sekt Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 1998年 / 4卷 / 02期
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10.1007/s100520050197
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
The branching ratios of the tau(-) --> h(-) nu(tau), tau(-) --> h(-) pi(0)nu(tau) and tau(-) --> h(-) greater than or equal to 2 pi(0)nu(tau) decays have been measured using the 1991-1995 data recorded with the OPAL detector at LEP. These branching ratios are measured simultaneously using three selection criteria and are found to he BR(tau(-) --> h(-) nu(tau)) = (11.98 +/- 0.13 +/- 0.16) %, BR(tau(-) --> h(-)pi(0)nu(tau)) = (25.89 +/- 0.17 +/- 0.29)% BR(tau- --> h(-) greater than or equal to 2 pi(0)nu(tau)) = (9.91 +/- 0.31 +/- 0.27)% where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic.
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