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First Observation of the Decay tau^- -> phi K^- nu_tau

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We present the first observation of tau lepton decays to hadronic final states with a phi-meson. This analysis is based on 401 fb^-1 of data accumulated at the Belle experiment. The branching fraction obtained is B(tau- -> phi K- nu) = (4.05 +- 0.25 +- 0.26) x 10^-5.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0609018,
  title  = {First Observation of the Decay tau^- -> phi K^- nu_tau},
  author = {Belle colaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0609018},
  year   = {2008}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Lett. B