1. Measurement of the τ−→h − h + h − v τ and τ−→h − h + h −≥1π0 v τ branching ratios
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Madjid Boutemeur, G. D. Long, Tetsuro Mashimo, P. G. Estabrooks, R. K. Keeler, W. Gorn, P. M. Watkins, R. Bartoldus, Otmar Biebel, D. L. Wagner, H. O. Ogren, C. Y. Chang, S. Braibant, Christoph Geich-Gimbel, H. Deng, G. G. Hanson, P. Taras, G. Giacomelli, W. R. Gibson, G. A. Snow, C. P. Ward, N. J. Oldershaw, F. X. Gentit, J. E. Conboy, J. Letts, P. Schenk, Michael Kobel, A. Beck, S. Söldner-Rembold, Norbert Wermes, A. Fürtjes, R.J. Akers, R. Kowalewski, Sherry Towers, M. S. Dixit, T. Kawamoto, G. A. Beck, R. M. Brown, Lorne Levinson, Frans Meijers, Achim Stahl, P. Teixeira-Dias, P. D. Phillips, P. E.L. Clarke, M. K. Jones, Gilles Beaudoin, P. Igo-Kemenes, Julie Kirk, H. Lafoux, A. Skillman, S. Orito, M. Rosvick, F. Palmonari, O. Schaile, K. Ametewee, R. G. Kellogg, Silvia Arcelli, J. P. Martin, M. Tscheulin, B. Schmitt, S. De Jong, H. Jeremie, N. K. Watson, R. Lahmann, D. C. Imrie, Matthias Schröder, Gideon Alexander, Paolo Capiluppi, R. E. Hughes-Jones, Reda Tafirout, M. Fanti, J. Steuerer, H. Przysiezniak, V. Gibson, E. A. Mckigney, O. C. Cooke, Margret Fincke-Keeler, F. S. Merritt, M. Hapke, M. Starks, G. P. Siroli, J. King, D. E. Hutchcroft, C. Dallapiccola, P. Scharff-Hansen, Sachio Komamiya, W. P. Lai, Theodoros Geralis, E. Ros, A. T. Watson, E. do Couto e Silva, S. Marcllini, J. D. Gillies, W. Mohr, A. Posthaus, Dave Charlton, J. Bechtluft, J. A. McKenna, Shlomo Dado, J. von Krogh, R. J. Hawkings, Ehud Duchovni, A. M. Smith, G. Vasseur, R. Howard, C. Hartmann, D. E. Plane, N. Altekamp, B. Lorazo, James Pinfold, D. G. Fong, P. Poffenberger, T. J. Smith, K. Stephens, P. Schütz, L. A. del Pozo, B. C. Shen, R. Bürgin, B. Fabbro, G. M. Dallavalle, G. W. Wilson, M. Hauschild, J. G. Layter, Sven Menke, H. Mes, M. J. Oreglia, J. P. Pansart, Giora Mikenberg, J. Gascon, T. P. Kokott, A. Luig, T. J. McMahon, D. J. Miller, C. Markus, D. L. Rees, C. Charlesworth, A. Malik, G. N. Patrick, U. Müller, A. J. Martin, J. Schwiening, I. P. Duerdoth, R. K. Carnegie, D. Axen, J. W. Gary, Paolo Giacomelli, R. D. Heuer, A. Jawahery, Fabrizio Fabbri, D. S. Koetke, F. Scharf, M. Hansroul, M. Jimack, J. A. Wilson, Marcello Mannelli, J. E. Duboscq, S. W. Gensler, P. Fath, Siegfried Bethke, A. K. Honma, A. D. Schaile, Kiyotomo Kawagoe, Gideon Bella, Marco Cuffiani, S. J. Hillier, Peter Sherwood, A. Buijs, T. Kobayashi, H. J. Burckhart, Alexander Wagner, Jacqueline Batley, W. Matthews, C. Sbarra, D. M. Strom, C. Stegmann, T. R. Wyatt, M. A. Thomson, J. Ludwig, K. Runge, D. R. Rust, C. H. Shepherd-Themistocleous, P. Bock, G. Yekutieli, C. K. Hargrove, H. Fukui, E. K. U. Gross, P. Weber, W. G. Scott, A. Gaidot, T. Wlodek, M. F. Turner-Watson, A. A. Carter, M. Sproston, Ron Folman, Roger Jones, P. Gagnon, U. C. Dunwoody, P. A. Hart, J. Allison, D. R. Ward, T. Kress, Gregor Herten, B. J. King, R. J. Barlow, M. Morii, P. Utzat, B. Nijjhar, S. L. Chu, R. J. Homer, Peter R Hobson, N. Tesch, G. T. Zorn, M. J. Pearce, A. M. Lee, R. Mir, M. G. Rison, B. Wilkens, S. W. O'Neale, K. J. Anderson, E. Lefebvre, E. von Törne, H. M. Bosch, S. G. Clowes, Wolfram Dietrich Zeuner, P. Routenburg, J. E. Pilcher, M. Fierro, J. E.G. Edwards, F. Odorici, Frank Fiedler, D. Hochman, P. W. Jeffreys, R. Van Kooten, P. S. Wells, J. C. Clayton, Stephen Lloyd, T. Behnke, C.J. Beeston, T. G. Shears, M. Tecchio, F. Wäckerle, J. Lauber, D. M. Gingrich, P. Berlich, P. Bright-Thomas, J. J. Ward, P. Vikas, D. Lanske, F. G. Oakham, M. J. Losty, E. L. Barberio, T. Hilse, O. Runolfsson, D. Rigby, R. J. Hemingway, B. W. Kennedy, P. Jovanovic, Claudio Grandi, Austin Ball, Peter Krieger, R. W. Springer, Manuella Vincter, Alessandro Montanari, Georges Azuelos, K. W. Bell, J. C. Hill, Misao Sasaki, J. M. Roney, G. D. Lafferty, A. Joly, M. W. Redmond, B. Stockhausen, Paul Kyberd, F. K. Loebinger, R. Giacomelli, A. I. McNab, J. Goldberg, S. M. Gascon-Shotkin, B. Nellen, H. G. Evans, M. J. Goodrick, I. Cohen, A. M. Rossi, T. Tsukamoto, Stefan Kluth, H. M. Fischer, Shlomit Tarem, A. Michelini, C. J. Oram, Gunter Wolf, S. A. Robins, S. Wotton, J. R. Carter, N. I. Geddes, N. L. Rodning, B. Poli, I. J. Bloodworth, M. Settles, Yoram Rozen, M. Foucher, Junichi Kanzaki, D. Karlen, C. Burgard, C. M. Hawkes, Daniel Lellouch, A. S. Turcot, Takehiko Mori, V. Zacek, C. Darling, P. Mättig, Shoji Asai, S. B. Anderson, P. Szymanski, Stan Bentvelsen, Hans-Christian Schultz-Coulon, Randall Sobie, Michael Schulz, T. W. Pritchard, Guenter Duckeck, and Andris Skuja
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Physics ,Particle physics ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,Meson ,Branching fraction ,Electron–positron annihilation ,Analytical chemistry ,Branching (polymer chemistry) ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,Charged particle ,Lepton - Abstract
The branching ratios of the τ−→h − h + h − v τ and τ−→h − h + h −≥1π0 v τ decays, whereh is either a charged π orK meson, are measured using a data sample of 87861 τ+τ− pairs collected with the OPAL detector at LEP. The two branching ratios are extracted simultaneously from a sample of three charged particle decays and found to be: $$\begin{gathered} B(\tau ^ - \to h^ - h^ + h^ - \nu _\tau ) = (9.87 \pm 0.10 \pm 0.24)\% \hfill \\ B(\tau ^ - \to h^ - h^ + h^ - \geqslant 1\pi ^0 \nu _\tau ) = (5.09 \pm 0.10 \pm 0.23)\% \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$ where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. The branching ratio of the τ lepton into three charged particles is measured to be: $$B(\tau ^ - \to 3 - prong) = (14.96 \pm 0.09 \pm 0.22)\%$$
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- 1995
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