Observation of Radiative Leptonic Decay of the Tau Lepton

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint 31 Jan 2000Embargo end date: 01 Jan 1999 English Publisher:American Physical Society (APS)Journal:Physical Review Letters, volume 84, pages 830-834 (issn: 0031-9007, eissn: 1079-7114,

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Authors: T. Bergfeld; B. I. Eisenstein; J. Ernst; G. E. Gladding; G. D. Gollin; R. M. Hans; E. Johnson; +190 Authors

T. Bergfeld; B. I. Eisenstein; J. Ernst; G. E. Gladding; G. D. Gollin; R. M. Hans; E. Johnson; I. Karliner; M. A. Marsh; M. Palmer; C. Plager; C. Sedlack; M. Selen; J. J. Thaler; J. Williams; K. W. Edwards; R. Janicek; P. M. Patel; A. J. Sadoff; R. Ammar; P. Baringer; A. Bean; D. Besson; R. Davis; S. Kotov; I. Kravchenko; N. Kwak; X. Zhao; S. Anderson; V. V. Frolov; Y. Kubota; S. J. Lee; R. Mahapatra; J. J. O'Neill; R. Poling; T. Riehle; A. Smith; S. Ahmed; M. S. Alam; S. B. Athar; L. Jian; L. Ling; A. H. Mahmood; M. Saleem; S. Timm; F. Wappler; A. Anastassov; J. E. Duboscq; K. K. Gan; C. Gwon; T. Hart; K. Honscheid; H. Kagan; R. Kass; J. Lorenc; H. Schwarthoff; E. von Toerne; M. M. Zoeller; S. J. Richichi; H. Severini; P. Skubic; A. Undrus; M. Bishai; S. Chen; J. Fast; J. W. Hinson; J. Lee; N. Menon; D. H. Miller; E. I. Shibata; I. P. J. Shipsey; Y. Kwon; A. L. Lyon; E. H. Thorndike; C. P. Jessop; K. Lingel; H. Marsiske; M. L. Perl; V. Savinov; D. Ugolini; X. Zhou; T. E. Coan; V. Fadeyev; I. Korolkov; Y. Maravin; I. Narsky; R. Stroynowski; J. Ye; T. Wlodek; M. Artuso; R. Ayad; E. Dambasuren; S. Kopp; G. Majumder; G. C. Moneti; R. Mountain; S. Schuh; T. Skwarnicki; S. Stone; A. Titov; G. Viehhauser; J. C. Wang; A. Wolf; J. Wu; S. E. Csorna; K. W. McLean; S. Marka; Z. Xu; R. Godang; K. Kinoshita; I. C. Lai; S. Schrenk; G. Bonvicini; D. Cinabro; R. Greene; L. P. Perera; G. J. Zhou; S. Chan; G. Eigen; E. Lipeles; M. Schmidtler; A. Shapiro; W. M. Sun; J. Urheim; A. J. Weinstein; F. Würthwein; D. E. Jaffe; G. Masek; H. P. Paar; E. M. Potter; S. Prell; V. Sharma; D. M. Asner; A. Eppich; J. Gronberg; T. S. Hill; D. J. Lange; R. J. Morrison; T. K. Nelson; R. A. Briere; B. H. Behrens; W. T. Ford; A. Gritsan; H. Krieg; J. Roy; J. G. Smith; J. P. Alexander; R. Baker; C. Bebek; B. E. Berger; K. Berkelman; F. Blanc; V. Boisvert; D. G. Cassel; M. Dickson; P. S. Drell; K. M. Ecklund; R. Ehrlich; A. D. Foland; P. Gaidarev; R. S. Galik; L. Gibbons; B. Gittelman; S. W. Gray; D. L. Hartill; B. K. Heltsley; P. I. Hopman; C. D. Jones; D. L. Kreinick; T. Lee; Y. Liu; T. O. Meyer; N. B. Mistry; C. R. Ng; E. Nordberg; J. R. Patterson; D. Peterson; D. Riley; J. G. Thayer; P. G. Thies; B. Valant-Spaight; A. Warburton; P. Avery; M. Lohner; C. Prescott; A. I. Rubiera; J. Yelton; J. Zheng; G. Brandenburg; A. Ershov; Y. S. Gao; D. Y.-J. Kim; R. Wilson; T. E. Browder; Y. Li; J. L. Rodriguez; H. Yamamoto;

doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.84.830 , 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/9907056 , 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/9909050

pmid: 11017384

arXiv: hep-ex/9909050 , hep-ex/9907056

Observation of Radiative Leptonic Decay of the Tau Lepton

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Abstract

Using 4.68 fb^{-1} of e^+e^- annihilation data collected with the CLEO II detector we have studied tau radiative decays tau --> mu nu nu gamma and tau --> e nu nu gamma. For a 10 MeV minimum photon energy in the tau rest frame, the branching fraction of a tau radiatively decaying to a muon is measured to be (3.61+-0.16+-0.35)*10^{-3}, and to an electron is (1.75+-0.06+-0.17)*10^{-2}. The branching fractions are in agreement with the Standard Model theoretical predictions. All quoted results are preliminary.

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High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), FOS: Physical sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment

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