1. Search for lepton-number- and baryon-number-violating tau decays at Belle
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Sahoo, D., Mohanty, G. B., Aziz, T., Kroeger, R., Krokovny, P., Kuhr, T., Kumar, M., Kumar, R., Kumara, K., Kuzmin, A., Kwon, Y.-J., Lalwani, K., Lee, I. S., Babu, Varghese, Lee, S. C., Li, C. H., Li, J., Li, L. K., Li, Y. B., Libby, J., Lieret, K., Liventsev, D., Luo, T., MacNaughton, J., Bahinipati, S., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matvienko, D., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Miyabayashi, K., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, S., Moon, T. J., Mussa, R., Behera, P., Nakano, E., Nakao, M., Natkaniec, Z., Natochii, A., Nayak, L., Nayak, M., Niiyama, M., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Ogawa, S., Bennett, J., Ono, H., Onuki, Y., Oskin, P., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Pang, T., Pardi, S., Park, C. W., Park, H., Patra, S., Bessner, M., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Pestotnik, R., Piilonen, L. E., Podobnik, T., Popov, V., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Ritter, M., Roehrken, Markus, Bhardwaj, V., Rostomyan, A., Rout, N., Rozanska, M., Russo, G., Sakai, Y., Sandilya, S., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Savinov, V., Schnell, G., Bilka, T., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Seino, Y., Senyo, K., Sevior, M. E., Shapkin, M., Sharma, C., Shen, C. P., Shiu, J.-G., Biswal, J., Shwartz, B., Simon, F., Sokolov, A., Solovieva, E., Stanič, S., Starič, M., Stottler, Z. S., Strube, J. F., Sumiyoshi, T., Takizawa, M., Bonvicini, G., Tamponi, U., Tanida, K., Tenchini, Francesco, Uchida, M., Uehara, S., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Trabelsi, K., Bozek, A., Vahsen, S. E., Van Tonder, R., Varner, G., Vinokurova, A., Vorobyev, V., Waheed, E., Wang, C. H., Wang, E., Wang, M.-Z., Wang, P., Bračko, M., Watanabe, M., Watanuki, S., Wehle, S., Won, E., Xu, X., Yabsley, B. D., Yan, W., Yang, S. B., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Browder, T. E., Yin, J. H., Yusa, Y., Zhilich, V., Zhukova, V., Zhulanov, V., Belle Collaboration, Campajola, M., Cao, L., Červenkov, D., Chang, M.-C., Chang, P., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Adachi, I., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, H. E., Cho, K., Choi, S.-K., Choi, Y., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Cunliffe, S., Das, S., Adamczyk, K., Dash, N., De Nardo, G., Di Capua, F., Dingfelder, J., Doležal, Z., Dong, T. V., Dubey, S., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Ferber, T., Aihara, H., Ferlewicz, D., Frey, A., Fulsom, B. G., Garg, R., Gaur, V., Garmash, A., Giri, A., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Guan, Y., Al Said, S., Gudkova, K., Hadjivasiliou, C., Halder, S., Hara, T., Hartbrich, O., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Hedges, M. T., Hernandez Villanueva, M., Hou, W.-S., Asner, D. M., Hsu, C.-L., Huang, K., Iijima, T., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Jacobs, W. W., Aushev, T., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joo, C. W., Joo, K. K., Kaliyar, A. B., Kang, K. H., Karyan, G., Kawasaki, T., Kichimi, H., Ayad, R., Kiesling, C., Kim, D. Y., Kim, S. H., Kim, Y.-K., Kinoshita, K., Kodyš, P., Konno, T., Korpar, S., Kotchetkov, D., Križan, P., Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Belle, Belle, Collaboration, Campajola, M., De Nardo, G., Di Capua, F., Merola, M., Pardi, S., Russo, G., and Et, Al.
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We search for lepton-number- and baryon-number-violating decays $\tau^{-}\to\overline{p}e^{+}e^{-}$, $pe^{-}e^{-}$, $\overline{p}e^{+}\mu^{-}$, $\overline{p}e^{-}\mu^{+}$, $\overline{p}\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$, and $p\mu^{-}\mu^{-}$ using 921 fb$^{-1}$ of data, equivalent to $(841\pm12)\times 10^6$ $\tau^{+}\tau^{-}$ events, recorded with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider. In the absence of a signal, $90\%$ confidence-level upper limits are set on the branching fractions of these decays in the range $(1.8$-$4.0)\times 10^{-8}$. We set the world's first limits on the first four channels and improve the existing limits by an order of magnitude for the last two channels., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
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- 2020
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