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A search for the electric dipole moment of the τ-lepton

  • H. Albrecht
  • , T. Hamacher
  • , R. P. Hofmann
  • , T. Kirchhoff
  • , R. Mankel
  • , A. Nau
  • , S. Nowak
  • , D. Reßing
  • , H. Schröder
  • , H. D. Schulz
  • , M. Walter
  • , R. Wurth
  • , C. Hast
  • , H. Kapitza
  • , H. Kolanoski
  • , A. Kosche
  • , A. Lange
  • , A. Lindner
  • , M. Schieber
  • , T. Siegmund
  • H. Thurn, D. Töpfer, D. Wegener, C. Frankl, J. Graf, M. Schmidtler, M. Schramm, K. R. Schubert, R. Schwierz, B. Spaan, R. Waldi, K. Reim, H. Wegener, R. Eckmann, H. Kuipers, O. Mai, R. Mundt, T. Oest, R. Reiner, A. Rohde, W. Schmidt-Parzefall, J. Stiewe, S. Werner, K. Ehret, W. Hofmann, A. Hüpper, K. T. Knöpfle, J. Spengler, P. Krieger, D. B. MacFarlane, J. D. Prentice, P. R.B. Saull, K. Tzamariudaki, R. G. Van de Water, T. S. Yoon, M. Schneider, S. Weseler, M. Bračko, G. Kernel, P. Križan, E. Križnič, G. Medin, T. Podobnik, T. Živko, V. Balagura, S. Barsuk, I. Belyaev, R. Chistov, M. Danilov, V. Eiges, L. Gershtein, Yu Gershtein, A. Golutvin, O. Igonkina, I. Korolko, G. Kostina, D. Litvintsev, P. Pakhlov, S. Semenov, A. Snizhko, I. Tichomirov, Yu Zaitsev
  • c/o DESY
  • Institut für Physik
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • University of Dortmund
  • Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik
  • Technical University Dresden
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Physikalisches Institut
  • Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
  • II. Institut für Experimentalphysik
  • Universität Hamburg
  • Institut für Hochenergiephysik
  • University of Heidelberg
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
  • Institute of Particle Physics
  • University of Toronto
  • McGill University
  • Universität Karlsruhe/Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
  • University of Ljubljana
  • University of Montenegro
  • Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics

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Abstract

Using the ARGUS detector at the e+e- storage ring DORIS II, we have searched for the real and imaginary part of the electric dipole formfactor d(τ) of the τ lepton in the production of τ pairs at q2= 100GeV2. This is the first direct measurement of this CP violating formfactor. We applied the method of optimised observables which takes into account all available information on the observed τ decay products. No evidence for CP violation was found, and we derive the following results: Re(d(τ)) = (1.6 ± 1.9) · 10-16 e cm and Im(d(τ)) = (-0.2 ± 0.8) · 10-16 e cm, where statistical and systematic errors have been combined. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)37-44
Number of pages8
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume485
Issue number1-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Jul 2000
Externally publishedYes

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