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Experimental tests of lepton universality in τ decay
Ammar, Raymond G. Baringer, Philip S. Bean, Alice Besson, David Zeke Coppage, Don Darling, C. Davis, Robin E. P. Hancock, N. Kotov, S. Kravchenko, I.
Ammar, Raymond G.
Baringer, Philip S.
Bean, Alice
Besson, David Zeke
Coppage, Don
Darling, C.
Davis, Robin E. P.
Hancock, N.
Kotov, S.
Kravchenko, I.
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The branching fractions for τ→eνν(τ), μνν(τ), and hν(τ) are measured using data collected with the CLEO detector at the CESR e(+)e(-) collider: Be=0.1776±0.0006±0.0017, Bμ=0.1737±0.0008±0.0018, and B(h)=0.1152±0.0005±0.0012, where the first error is statistical, the second systematic, and h refers to either a charged π or K. Also measured is the τ mass, mτ=(1778.2±1.4) MeV. Lepton universality is affirmed by the relative branching fractions (B(μ)/B(e)=0.9777±0.0063±0.0087, B(h)/B(e)=0.6484±0.0041±0.0060) and the charged-current gauge coupling-constant ratios (g(μ)/g(e)=1.0026±0.0055, g(τ)/g(μ)=0.9990±0.0098). The τ mass result may be recast as a τ neutrino mass limit, m(ν)(τ)<60 MeV at 95% C.L.
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This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.55.2559.
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1997-03-01
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A. Anastassov et al. ((CLEO Collaboration)).(1997). "Experimental tests of lepton universality in τ decay." Physical Review D, 55(5):2559. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.55.2559