Measurement of exclusive one-prong and inclusive three-prong branching ratios of the τ lepton

  • H. Albrecht
  • , H. Ehrlichmann
  • , T. Hamacher
  • , A. Krüger
  • , A. Nau
  • , A. Nippe
  • , M. Reidenbach
  • , M. Schäfer
  • , H. Schröder
  • , H. D. Schulz
  • , F. Sefkow
  • , R. Wurth
  • , R. D. Appuhn
  • , C. Hast
  • , G. Herrera
  • , H. Kolanoski
  • , A. Lange
  • , A. Lindner
  • , R. Mankel
  • , M. Schieber
  • T. Siegmund, B. Spaan, H. Thurn, D. Töpfer, A. Walther, D. Wegener, M. Paulini, K. Reim, U. Volland, H. Wegener, R. Mundt, T. Oest, W. Schmidt-Parzefall, W. Funk, J. Stiewe, S. Werner, S. Ball, J. C. Gabriel, C. Geyer, A. Hölscher, W. Hofmann, B. Holzer, S. Khan, K. T. Knöpfle, J. Spengler, D. I. Britton, C. E.K. Charlesworth, K. W. Edwards, H. Kapitza, P. Krieger, R. Kutschke, D. B. MacFarlane, R. S. Orr, P. M. Patel, J. D. Prentice, S. C. Seider, G. Tsipolitis, K. Tzamariudaki, R. G. Van de Water, T. S. Yoon, D. Reßing, S. Schael, K. B. Schubert, K. Strahl, R. Waldi, S. Weseler, B. Boštjančič, G. Kernel, P. Križan, E. Križnič, T. Podobnik, T. Živko, H. I. Cronström, L. Jönsson, V. Balagura, M. Danilov, A. Droutskoy, B. Fominykh, A. Golutvin, I. Gorelov, F. Ratnikov, V. Lubimov, P. Pakhlov, A. Rostovtsev, A. Semenov, S. Semenov, V. Shevchenko, V. Soloshenko, I. Tichomirov, Yu Zaitsev, R. Childers, C. W. Darden

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Abstract

Using the ARGUS detector at the DORIS II storage ring, we have studied τ decays with one or three charged particles in the final state, obtaining the following values for the branching ratios: BR(τ-→e- {Mathematical expression})=(17.3±0.4±0.5)% BR(τ-→μ- {Mathematical expression})=(17.2±0.4±0.5)%,BR(τ-→π-vπ)+BR(τ-→K-vπ)=(11.7±0.6±0.8)% and BR(π-→3-prong)=(13.3±0.3±0.8)%. These measurements confirm the present world averages with a precision, in each case, comparable to the error on the combination of all previous results.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)367-374
Number of pages8
JournalZeitschrift fur Physik C-Particles and Fields
Volume53
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 1992
Externally publishedYes

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