The first observation of $\tau^{\pm} \to \phi K^{\pm} \nu$ decay

Belle Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2006.10.027

The first observation of $\tau^{\pm} \to \phi K^{\pm} \nu$ decay

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2015-06-25 v1

Authors: Belle Collaboration

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Abstract

We present the first measurement of tau-decays to hadronic final states with a $\phi$ -meson. This is based on 401.4 fb $^{-1}$ of data accumulated at the Belle experiment. The branching ratio obtained is $B(\tau^{\pm}\to\phi K^{\pm}\nu) = (4.06\pm 0.25\pm 0.26)\times 10^{-5}$ .

Keywords

tau decay phi meson branching ratio Belle experiment hadronic final states

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0608026,
  title  = {The first observation of $\tau^{\pm} \to \phi K^{\pm} \nu$ decay},
  author = {Belle Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0608026},
  year   = {2015}
}