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Search for B+ →k+τ+τ- at the BaBar Experiment. / <i>B<span class="sc">a</span>B<span class="sc">ar</span></i> Collaboration.
In: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 118, No. 3, 031802, 20.01.2017.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Search for B+ →k+τ+τ- at the BaBar Experiment
AU - <i>B<span class="sc">a</span>B<span class="sc">ar</span></i> Collaboration
AU - Lees, J. P.
AU - Poireau, V.
AU - Tisserand, V.
AU - Grauges, E.
AU - Palano, A.
AU - Eigen, G.
AU - Brown, D. N.
AU - Kolomensky, Yu G.
AU - Koch, H.
AU - Schroeder, T.
AU - Hearty, C.
AU - Mattison, T. S.
AU - McKenna, J. A.
AU - So, R. Y.
AU - Blinov, V. E.
AU - Buzykaev, A. R.
AU - Druzhinin, V. P.
AU - Golubev, V. B.
AU - Kravchenko, E. A.
AU - Onuchin, A. P.
AU - Serednyakov, S. I.
AU - Skovpen, Yu I.
AU - Solodov, E. P.
AU - Todyshev, K. Yu
AU - Lankford, A. J.
AU - Gary, J. W.
AU - Long, O.
AU - Eisner, A. M.
AU - Lockman, W. S.
AU - Panduro Vazquez, W.
AU - Chao, D. S.
AU - Cheng, C. H.
AU - Echenard, B.
AU - Flood, K. T.
AU - Hitlin, D. G.
AU - Kim, J.
AU - Miyashita, T. S.
AU - Ongmongkolkul, P.
AU - Porter, F. C.
AU - Röhrken, M.
AU - Huard, Z.
AU - Meadows, B. T.
AU - Pushpawela, B. G.
AU - Sokoloff, M. D.
AU - Sun, L.
AU - Smith, J. G.
AU - Wagner, S. R.
AU - Bernard, D.
AU - Verderi, M.
AU - Bettoni, D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 American Physical Society.
PY - 2017/1/20
Y1 - 2017/1/20
N2 - We search for the rare flavor-changing neutral current process B+→K+τ+τ- using data from the BABAR experiment. The data sample, collected at the center-of-mass energy of the (4S) resonance, corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 424 fb-1 and to 471×106 BB pairs. We reconstruct one B meson, produced in the (4S)→B+B- decay, in one of many hadronic decay modes and search for activity compatible with a B+→K+τ+τ- decay in the rest of the event. Each τ lepton is required to decay leptonically into an electron or muon and neutrinos. Comparing the expected number of background events with the data sample after applying the selection criteria, we do not find evidence for a signal. The resulting upper limit, at the 90% confidence level, is B(B+→K+τ+τ-)<2.25×10-3.
AB - We search for the rare flavor-changing neutral current process B+→K+τ+τ- using data from the BABAR experiment. The data sample, collected at the center-of-mass energy of the (4S) resonance, corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 424 fb-1 and to 471×106 BB pairs. We reconstruct one B meson, produced in the (4S)→B+B- decay, in one of many hadronic decay modes and search for activity compatible with a B+→K+τ+τ- decay in the rest of the event. Each τ lepton is required to decay leptonically into an electron or muon and neutrinos. Comparing the expected number of background events with the data sample after applying the selection criteria, we do not find evidence for a signal. The resulting upper limit, at the 90% confidence level, is B(B+→K+τ+τ-)<2.25×10-3.
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UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85010957506&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.031802
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.031802
M3 - Article
C2 - 28157371
VL - 118
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
SN - 0031-9007
IS - 3
M1 - 031802
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