Search for the decay B+ -> K+ tau-/+ mu+/-

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2007-08-09

arxiv.org/abs/0708.1303v2

Phys.Rev.Lett.99:201801,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

7 pages, 2 figures, version published in Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.201801

We present a search for the lepton flavor violating decay B+ --> K+ tau-/+ mu+/- using 383 million B Bbar events collected by the BABAR experiment. The branching fraction for this decay can be substantially enhanced in new physics models. The kinematics of the tau from the signal B decay are inferred from the K+, mu, and other B in the event, which is fully reconstructed in one of a variety of hadronic decay modes, allowing the signal B candidate to be fully reconstructed. We observe no excess of events over the expected background and set a limit of B(B+ --> K+ tau mu) < 7.7 x 10^-5 at 90% confidence level, where the branching fraction is for the sum of the K+ tau- mu+ and K+ tau+ mu- final states. We use this result to improve a model-independent bound on the energy scale of flavor-changing new physics.

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