Related papers: Selected topics in tau physics from BaBar
We report a measurement of the branching fraction for tau- -> pi- pi0 nu and the invariant mass spectrum of the resulting pi- pi0 system using 72.2 /fb of data recorded by the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- collider. The branching fraction…
We present a study of the decay tau- -> K_S pi- nu_tau using a 351 fb^-1 data sample collected with the Belle detector. The analysis is based on 53110 lepton-tagged signal events. The measured branching fraction B(tau- -> K_S pi-…
We present a search for the lepton flavor violating decay modes B+/- to h+/- tau l (h= K,pi; l= e,mu) using the BaBar data sample, which corresponds to 472 million BBbar pairs. The search uses events where one B meson is fully reconstructed…
We perform a measurement of the tau -> l gamma nu anti-nu (l = e, mu) branching fractions for a minimum photon energy of 10 MeV in the tau rest frame, using 431fb^-1 of e^+e^- collisions collected at the center-of-mass energy of the…
We perform a measurement of the branching fractions for tau -> l gamma nu anti-nu (l= e, mu) decays for a minimum photon energy of 10 MeV in the tau rest frame using 430 fb^-1 of e^+ e^- collisions collected at the center-of-mass energy of…
The BaBar collaboration has accumulated over 400 million tau-pairs which can be used to study charged leptonic and hadronic weak currents to unprecedented precision. This note presents results on lepton universality, measurements of |V_us|,…
We report some new results on tau decays obtained by the BaBar collaboration using 468 inverse femtobarn of electron-positron collisions recorded at the PEP-II asymmetric collider at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. First We will show…
The decay $\tau^{-}\to K^{-}K_S\nu_{\tau}$ has been studied using $430\times10^6$ $e^+e^-\to \tau^+\tau^-$ events produced at a center-of-mass energy around 10.6 GeV at the PEP-II collider and studied with the BABAR detector. The mass…
We present a simultaneous measurement of the B0bar lifetime tau(B0) and mixing parameter $Delta m_d$. We use a sample of about 50000 B0bar -> D*+ l- anti-nu(l) partially reconstructed decays identified with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II…
We present a search for the decay B+ -> tau+ nu using 288 inverse femtobarns of data collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BaBar detector at the SLAC PEP-II B-Factory. A sample of events with one reconstructed semileptonic B decay…
The $\Lambda_c^+$ baryon mass is measured using $\Lambda_c^+\to\Lambda K^0_S K^+$ and $\Lambda_c^+\to\Sigma^0 K^0_S K^+$ decays reconstructed in 232 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy…
We present a study of tau->pipipinu, tau->Kpipinu, tau->KKpinu, and tau->KKKnu decays using a 666 fb-1 data sample collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at and near a center-of-mass energy of 10.58…
We present a study of tau^- -> K^- pi^+ pi^- nu_tau decay using ~669 /fb data, collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e^+ e- collider. The data is recorded at a center-of-mass energy 10.58 GeV. The result for the…
The decays tau -> 3 pi + nu(tau) are analyzed at one loop order in the framework of Generalized Chiral Perturbation Theory, in order to test the sensitivity to the size of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking parameters, contained in the…
We present a study of tau- --> pi- K0S K0S (pi0) nu and tau- --> K- K0S K0S (pi0) nu decays using a dataset of 430 million tau lepton pairs, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 468 fb-1, collected with the BaBar detector at the…
Experimental studies of B -> D^(*) tau nu decays, are reported. The results are based on large data samples collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at KEKB and the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric energy…
We report on analyses of tau lepton decays $\tau^- \to \eta K^- \nu_{\tau}$ and $\tau^- \to \eta \pi^- \nu_{\tau}$, with $\eta \to \pi^+ \pi^- \pi^0$, using 470 fb$^{-1}$ of data from the Babar experiment at PEP-II, collected at…
We present a search for the B- ->tau- nu-bar decay in a data sample of 82 fb^(-1) collected at the Y(4S) resonance with the BaBar detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric B Factory. Continuum and combinatorial backgrounds are suppressed by…
We search for the rare leptonic decay B+ --> tau+ nu_tau in a sample of 232x10^6 BBbar pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II B-Factory. Signal events are selected by examining the properties of the B meson recoiling…
The tau decays to four hadrons have been studied with the CLEO III detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) using (7.56 +- 0.15) fb^{-1} of data collected near the Y(4S) resonance. We present the first statistically significant…