Evidence for B-→τ-ν̄τ with a semileptonic tagging method

K. Hara, T. Iijima, H. Aihara, V. Aulchenko, T. Aushev, T. Aziz, A. M. Bakich, E. Barberio, K. Belous, M. Bischofberger, A. Bondar, A. Bozek, M. Bračko, T. E. Browder, P. Chang, Y. Chao, A. Chen, B. G. Cheon, C. C. Chiang, I. S. ChoY. Choi, J. Dalseno, M. Danilov, Z. Doležal, W. Dungel, S. Eidelman, N. Gabyshev, P. Goldenzweig, B. Golob, H. Ha, Y. Hasegawa, K. Hayasaka, H. Hayashii, Y. Horii, Y. Hoshi, Y. B. Hsiung, H. J. Hyun, K. Inami, M. Iwabuchi, Y. Iwasaki, T. Julius, J. H. Kang, H. Kawai, T. Kawasaki, H. Kichimi, C. Kiesling, H. J. Kim, H. O. Kim, J. H. Kim, M. J. Kim, Y. J. Kim, K. Kinoshita, B. R. Ko, P. Kodyž, S. Korpar, M. Kreps, P. Križan, P. Krokovny, T. Kuhr, T. Kumita, A. Kuzmin, Y. J. Kwon, S. H. Kyeong, M. J. Lee, S. H. Lee, J. Li, A. Limosani, Y. Liu, D. Liventsev, R. Louvot, A. Matyja, S. McOnie, K. Miyabayashi, H. Miyata, Y. Miyazaki, G. B. Mohanty, T. Mori, E. Nakano, M. Nakao, H. Nakazawa, S. Neubauer, S. Nishida, K. Nishimura, O. Nitoh, T. Nozaki, S. Ogawa, T. Ohshima, S. Okuno, S. L. Olsen, H. Ozaki, G. Pakhlova, C. W. Park, H. K. Park, R. Pestotnik, M. Petrič, L. E. Piilonen, M. Prim, M. Rozanska, S. Ryu, H. Sahoo, Y. Sakai, O. Schneider, J. Schümann, C. Schwanda, A. J. Schwartz, K. Senyo, M. E. Sevior, M. Shapkin, H. Shibuya, J. G. Shiu, B. Shwartz, J. B. Singh, P. Smerkol, E. Solovieva, S. Stanič, M. Starič, K. Sumisawa, T. Sumiyoshi, Y. Teramoto, I. Tikhomirov, K. Trabelsi, S. Uehara, T. Uglov, Y. Unno, S. Uno, Y. Ushiroda, G. Varner, K. E. Varvell, K. Vervink, C. H. Wang, M. Z. Wang, P. Wang, Y. Watanabe, R. Wedd, E. Won, B. D. Yabsley, Y. Yamashita, M. Yamauchi, C. Z. Yuan, C. C. Zhang, V. Zhilich, T. Zivko, A. Zupanc, O. Zyukova

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Abstract

We present a measurement of the decay B-→τ -ν̄τ using a data sample containing 657×106 BB̄ pairs collected at the Υ(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. A sample of B+B- pairs are tagged by reconstructing one B+ meson decaying semileptonically. We detect the B-→τ -ν̄τ candidate in the recoil. We obtain a signal with a significance of 3.6 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties, and measure the branching fraction to be B(B-→τ -ν̄τ)=[1.54-0.37+0.38(stat)-0.31+0.29(syst)] ×10-4. This result confirms the evidence for B -→τ-ν̄τ obtained in a previous Belle measurement that used a hadronic B tagging method.

Original languageEnglish
Article number071101
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume82
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010 Oct 22

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research is based on data from the Add Health project, a program project designed by J. Richard Udry (PI) and Peter Bearman, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with cooperative funding participation by the National Cancer Institute; the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders; the National Institute of Drug Abuse; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; the National Institute of Mental Health; the National Institute of Nursing Research; the Office of AIDS Research, NIH; the Office of Behavior and Social Science Research, NIH; the Office of the Director, NIH; the Office of Research on Women's Health, NIH; the Office of Population Affairs, DHHS; the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DHHS; the Office of Minority Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DHHS; the Office of Minority Health, Office of Public Health and Science, DHHS; the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS; and the National Science Foundation. Persons interested in obtaining data files from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health should contact Jo Jones, Carolina Population Center, 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997 (email: jo_jones@unc.edu ).

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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