Evidence for B+ --> tau+ nu_tau decays using hadronic B tags

Details Evidence for B+ --> tau+ nu_tau decays using hadronic B tags Evidence for B+ --> tau+ nu_tau decays using hadronic B tags

2010-07-31

arxiv.org/abs/1008.0104v1

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

10 pages, 7 postscript figures, contributed to 35th International Conference on High Energy Physics, July 22-28, Paris (ICHEP

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We present a search for the decay B+ --> tau+ nu_tau using 467.8 x 10^6 B B-bar pairs collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II B-Factory. We select a sample of events with one completely reconstructed B- in an hadronic decay mode (B- --> D{(*)0}X- and B- --> J/psi X-). We examine the rest of the event to search for a B+ --> tau+ nu_tau decay. We identify the tau+ lepton in the following modes: tau+ --> e+ nu nu, tau+ --> mu+ nu nu, tau+ --> pi+ nu and tau+ --> rho nu. We find an excess of events with respect to expected background, which excludes the null signal hypothesis at the level of 3.3 sigma and can be converted to a branching fraction central value of B( B+ --> tau+ nu_tau )=( 1.80 +0.57 -0.54 (stat.) +-0.26 (syst.)) x 10^{-4}.

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