1. Measurement of the branching ratio for →τ decays
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J. Letts, A. Leins, Shlomo Dado, K. Graham, Tara Shears, P. Gagnon, D. Toya, A. W. Lloyd, C. Pahl, Paolo Giacomelli, M. Hauschild, Giora Mikenberg, G. D. Lafferty, J. Allison, Zoltan Laszlo Trocsanyi, M. Harin-Dirac, C. H. Shepherd-Themistocleous, Kiyotomo Kawagoe, Dong Hee Kim, R. J. Homer, I. J. Bloodworth, A. K. Honma, O. Runolfsson, Gideon Bella, Claudio Grandi, J. S. White, Claudia Schmitt, W. J. McDonald, B. C. Shen, David Futyan, Yoram Rozen, H. J. Burckhart, D. J. Miller, M. Donkers, Naoko Kanaya, Siegfried Bethke, Alexander Oh, S. Yamashita, P. Igo-Kemenes, M. A. Thomson, P. F. Åkesson, D. Lanske, G. W. Wilson, Junichi Kanzaki, P. G. Estabrooks, R. K. Keeler, G. Gaycken, Gregor Herten, W. G. Scott, J. Polok, D. Karlen, T. Trefzger, S. Spagnolo, K. Ishii, H. Jeremie, S. D. Talbot, C. Hensel, Daniel Lellouch, I. Nakamura, Richard J. K. Taylor, T. Behnke, Takehiko Mori, C. R. Jones, A. Okpara, J. W. Gary, Arnulf Quadt, P. M. Watkins, C. F. Vollmer, T. R. Wyatt, R. J. Barlow, H. Landsman, J. E. Pilcher, Erez Etzion, K. R. Hossain, P. Mättig, D. Zer-Zion, O. Schaile, M. Verzocchi, A. J. Martin, Christoph Geich-Gimbel, P. Mendez-Lorenzo, Thorsten Wengler, Stefan Kluth, Shlomit Tarem, B. Caron, D. Axen, P. Renkel, A. Jawahery, Oana Elena Vickey Boeriu, D. Glenzinski, Marek Tasevsky, F. G. Oakham, A. D. Schaile, Gabriella Pasztor, Dezso Horvath, M. J. Losty, E. L. Barberio, F. Spano, Peter Sherwood, A. Macchiolo, J. Couchman, W. Mader, F. Odorici, T. Kress, B. Surrow, A. A. Carter, P. Vannerem, G. A. Snow, C. P. Ward, J. Ludwig, K. Runge, P. Bock, G. Benelli, L. Brigliadori, Shoji Asai, E. A. De Wolf, S. Rosati, Sachio Komamiya, Giovanni Abbiendi, M. J. Oreglia, A. Csilling, S. Söldner-Rembold, Dave Charlton, J. G. Layter, S. W. O'Neale, K. Hoffman, A. Harel, S.J. Dallison, T. P. Kokott, D. Waller, P. O. Günther, T. Saeki, Rolf Seuster, M. Gruwé, G. N. Patrick, P. E.L. Clarke, Ikuo Ueda, D. M. Strom, K. J. Anderson, V. Kartvelishvili, J. P. Martin, T. Kuhl, R. D. Heuer, Richard Nisius, W. Menges, Achim Stahl, J. Lu, Satoshi Mihara, Guenter Duckeck, H. Rick, C. Y. Chang, Marco Cuffiani, M. Ford, G. Anagnostou, Katja Klein, L. Stumpf, H. Voss, H. Mes, I. P. Duerdoth, S. Braibant, K. Sachs, J. R. Carter, Norbert Wermes, Sherry Towers, T. Kawamoto, G. G. Hanson, N. K. Watson, G. Giacomelli, J. Grunhaus, S. Orito, G. P. Siroli, I. Lawson, Frank Fiedler, A. De Roeck, M. Kobel, Christoph Schwick, J. Böhme, M. S. Dixit, T. R. Junk, Raimund Ströhmer, Richard Teuscher, Frans Meijers, Juergen Thomas, Matthias Schröder, P. S. Wells, T. Kämer, C. Ainsley, P. Hüntemeyer, A. T. Watson, Andris Skuja, A. M. Rossi, Georges Azuelos, B. Vachon, O. Sahr, E. Tsur, C. M. Hawkes, R. Liebisch, Isabel Marian Trigger, K. W. Bell, A. Macpherson, R. J. Hemingway, Tetsuro Mashimo, R. Kowalewski, J. C. Hill, J. Lillich, M. F. Turner-Watson, Beatrix Dienes, Paul Kyberd, F. K. Loebinger, B. W. Kennedy, R. J. Sobie, Joost Vossebeld, P. Jovanovic, E. Torrence, Austin Ball, S. Arcelli, Klaus Desch, R. Howard, Peter Krieger, Alessandro Montanari, M. Kupper, K. Stephens, Ivor Fleck, Joleen Pater, Edward K. G. Sarkisyan, A. Klier, H. A. Neal, Alain Bellerive, N. L. Rodning, Thomas E Marchant, C. Littlewood, P. Dervan, B. Poli, P. Scharff-Hansen, A. M. Smith, Daniele Bonacorsi, D. Krop, J. von Krogh, Gideon Alexander, James Pinfold, R. J. Hawkings, Oliver Pooth, D. Wetterling, Paolo Capiluppi, T. J. McMahon, J. Dubbert, R. K. Carnegie, M. Schumacher, Richard Batley, V. Zacek, J. A. Wilson, D. R. Ward, G. Karapetian, R. G. Kellogg, C. Sbarra, Csaba Hajdu, Stefano Marcellini, J. Goldberg, I. Cohen, Christoph Rembser, A. Fürtjes, Lutz Feld, M. Fanti, Ehud Duchovni, M. Boutemeur, F. S. Merritt, J. A. McKenna, A. Michelini, Robert McPherson, T. Kobayashi, Fabrizio Fabbri, A. Frey, J. Cammin, K. Harder, R. M. Brown, Lorne Levinson, G. D. Long, I. R. Bailey, Klaus Rabbertz, Stephen Lloyd, O. Biebel, D. R. Rust, D. E. Plane, G. M. Dallavalle, K. Roscoe, A. Gupta, E. Clay, J. M. Roney, Koichi Nagai, W. Mohr, P. Ferrari, German Martinez, E. K. U. Gross, and M. Sproston
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Meson ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Branching fraction ,Electron–positron annihilation ,Hadron ,01 natural sciences ,Nuclear physics ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Exponential decay ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics - Abstract
Using about 3.9 million hadronic Z decays from e + e − collisions recorded by the OPAL detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies s ≈M Z , the branching ratio for the decay D − s →τ − ν τ has been measured to be BR ( D − s →τ − ν τ )=(7.0±2.1( stat )±2.0( syst ))%. This result can be used to derive the decay constant of the D − s meson: f D s =(286±44( stat )±41( syst )) MeV .
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- 2001
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