101. Search for lepton-flavor-violating τ decays into a lepton and a vector meson
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M. J. Kim, Y. Watanabe, M. Starič, G. B. Mohanty, H. Miyata, M. Bischofberger, T. Kumita, B. G. Cheon, K. Hayasaka, K. M. Williams, A. Chen, E. Nakano, Y. S. Sohn, H. Park, A. Bozek, S. E. Vahsen, K. Trabelsi, C. P. Shen, M. Shapkin, M. Röhrken, Y. J. Kim, S. Uehara, Y. J. Kwon, B.A. Shwartz, V.N. Zhilich, N. J. Joshi, H. Ha, A. Vinokurova, O. Nitoh, O. Schneider, J. Haba, Z. Doležal, K. Miyabayashi, T. E. Browder, K. Cho, R. Pestotnik, T. Iijima, A.S. Kuzmin, S.I. Eidelman, K. Arinstein, Vladimir Zhulanov, A. Bondar, K. Belous, Anze Zupanc, W. S. Hou, H. Nakazawa, R. Mizuk, D. Epifanov, M. E. Sevior, D. H. Kah, H. J. Kim, K. Inami, K. Senyo, B. R. Ko, Yang Li, M. Danilov, Chang Liu, T. Zivko, Y. B. Hsiung, T. Kawasaki, Marko Petrič, Y. Choi, H. J. Hyun, P. Smerkol, Zhenyu Zhang, V.M. Aulchenko, A. Moll, J. G. Shiu, Vladislav Balagura, K. Kinoshita, K. S. Choi, J. Dalseno, Sunmin Ryu, S. Nishida, A. Drutskoy, D. Liventsev, E. L. Barberio, E. Won, Y. Miyazaki, O. Zyukova, G. S. Varner, Hitoshi Yamamoto, R. Itoh, Yoshinobu Unno, Anton Poluektov, Yasuyuki Horii, P. Wang, B. Golob, V. Bhardwaj, S. Okuno, J. S. Lange, H. Hayashii, Y. Teramoto, A. Bay, Y. Hoshi, R. Louvot, C. W. Park, V.E. Shebalin, P. Križan, A. Vossen, F. Simon, Y. Sakai, Andrey Sokolov, J. H. Kang, S. Uno, C. Schwanda, C. C. Chiang, M. Nakao, S. McOnie, Y. F. Liu, H. O. Kim, T. Mori, H. Sahoo, Y. Usov, T. Uglov, M. Watanabe, Kazuhiko Hara, H. K. Park, Y. Yamashita, H. Aihara, S. H. Kyeong, I. S. Cho, S. Ogawa, C. H. Wang, T. Sumiyoshi, Samo Stanič, Sang Hoon Lee, A. Garmash, C. Kiesling, H. Kawai, M. J. Lee, M. Bračko, Yasushi Nagasaka, A. M. Bakich, Z. Natkaniec, T. Ohshima, N. Gabyshev, M. Iwabuchi, L. E. Piilonen, G. Pakhlova, T. Julius, Po-Hsun Chen, and K. Sakai
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Muon ,Meson ,Branching fraction ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,FOS: Physical sciences ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,B-factory ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,Particle decay ,KEKB ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Vector meson ,Lepton - Abstract
We search for lepton-flavor-violating tau-> ell V^0 decays, where ell is an electron or muon and V^0 is one of the vector mesons rho^0, phi, omega, K*0 and K*0-bar. We use 854 fb^{-1} of data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e^+e^- collider. No evidence for a signal is found in any decay mode, and we obtain 90% confidence level upper limits on the individual branching fractions in the range (1.2-8.4)*10^{-8}., 13 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Lett. B
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- 2011