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Search for Lepton-Flavor-Violating τ Decays to a Lepton and an Invisible Boson at Belle II
I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk, L. Aggarwal, H. Ahmed, H. Aihara, N. Akopov, A. Aloisio, N. Anh Ky, D.M. Asner, T. AushevShow More
Published in American Physical Society
2023
Volume: 130
   
Issue: 18
Abstract
We search for lepton-flavor-violating τ-→e-α and τ-→μ-α decays, where α is an invisible spin-0 boson. The search uses electron-positron collisions at 10.58 GeV center-of-mass energy with an integrated luminosity of 62.8 fb-1, produced by the SuperKEKB collider and collected with the Belle II detector. We search for an excess in the lepton-energy spectrum of the known τ-→e-ν¯eντ and τ-→μ-ν¯μντ decays. We report 95% confidence-level upper limits on the branching-fraction ratio B(τ-→e-α)/B(τ-→e-ν¯eντ) in the range (1.1-9.7)×10-3 and on B(τ-→μ-α)/B(τ-→μ-ν¯μντ) in the range (0.7-12.2)×10-3 for α masses between 0 and 1.6 GeV/c2. These results provide the most stringent bounds on invisible boson production from τ decays. © 2023 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.
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JournalPhysical Review Letters
PublisherAmerican Physical Society
ISSN00319007