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Evidence of the $K^+\to\mu^+\nu\bar\nu\nu$ decay was searched for using E949 experimental data with an exposure of $1.70\times 10^{12}$ stopped kaons. The data sample is dominated by the backgrond process $K^+\to\mu^+\nu_\mu\gamma$. An…
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We report improved measurements of B decays with an eta meson in the final state using 357 fb^-1 of data collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB e^+ e^- collider. We observe the decays B^+- ->eta pi^+- and B^+- -> eta K^+-; the measured…
Using a data sample of $(1310.6 \pm 7.0) \times 10^{6}$ $J/\psi$ events taken with the BESIII detector at the center-of-mass energy of 3.097 GeV, we search for the first time for the lepton number violating decay $\Sigma^{-} \to p e^{-}…
We calculate the expected branching fraction of the second-class-current decay tau --> pi eta' nu, motivated by a a recent experimental upper-limit determination of this quantity. The largest contribution to the branching fraction is due to…
Decays of the kind $B^0_{s,d}\to\ell^+\ell^-$ belong to the most favourable processes for probing the flavour structure of the Standard Model, with outstanding sensitivity to new (pseudo)-scalar contributions. While the branching ratio of…
A sensitive search for the lepton-number-violating decay $\Xi^-\to p \mu^-\mu^-$ has been performed using a sample of $\sim10^9$ $\Xi^-$ hyperons produced in 800 GeV/$c$ $p$-Cu collisions. We obtain $\mathcal{B}(\Xi^-\to p \mu^-\mu^-)<…
Searches for lepton-flavor-violating decay of a tau lepton to a lighter mass lepton and a photon have been performed with the entire dataset of (963 +- 7) x 10^6 tau decays collected by the BaBar detector near the Upsilon(4S), Upsilon(3S)…
We present the first model-independent measurement of the absolute branching fraction of the Lambda_c+ -> p K- pi+ decay using a data sample of 978 fb^-1 collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. The…
The first limit on the branching ratio of the electric charge-nonconserving invisible muon decay $Br(\mu^+ \to invisible) < 5.2 \times 10^{-3}$ is obtained from the recently reported results on new determination of the Fermi constant from…
The Mu3e experiment aims to search for the lepton-flavour violating decay $\mu^+\rightarrow\ \text{e}^+ \text{e}^+ \text{e}^-$ with a sensitivity to one signal decay in $10^{16}$ muon decays at a muon stopping rate of $2\times 10^9…
A search for the lepton-flavour violating decays $B^0_s \rightarrow e^\pm \mu^\mp$ and $B^0 \rightarrow e^\pm \mu^\mp$ is performed based on a sample of proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb$^{-1}$,…
A search for the charged lepton flavor violating decay $J/\psi\to e^{\pm}\tau^{\mp}$ with $\tau^{\mp} \to \pi^{\mp}\pi^0\nu_{\tau}$ is performed with about $10$ billion $J/ \psi$ events collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII. No…
The Fermilab KTeV experiment has searched for lepton flavor violating decays of the KL meson in three decay modes. We observe no events in the signal region for any of the modes studied, and we set the following upper limits for their…
A first search for the lepton-flavour-violating decays $B^0\to K^{*0}\tau^\pm e^\mp$ is presented. The analysis is performed using a sample of proton-proton collision data, collected with the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 13…
We report on a search for the decay Kl -> pi0 e+ e- carried out by the KTeV/E799 experiment at Fermilab. This decay is expected to have a significant CP violating contribution and the measurement of its branching ratio could support the CKM…
A search for the lepton flavour violating decays $\tau^- \to l^- K^0_{\scriptscriptstyle S}$ ($l = e$ or $\mu$) has been performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 469 ${fb}^{-1}$, collected with the…
Using a large acceptance calorimeter and a stopped pion beam we have made a precise measurement of the rare Pi+ -> Pi0 e+ Nu,(pi_beta) decay branching ratio. We have evaluated the branching ratio by normalizing the number of observed…
Using a data sample of integrated luminosity of about 33 pb$^{-1}$ collected around 3.773 GeV with the BESII detector at the BEPC collider, the semileptonic decays $D^+ \to \phi e ^+\nu_e$, $D^+ \to \phi \mu^+\nu_\mu$ and the hadronic decay…
We report the results of a search for the decay B^0 -> e^+ e^-, mu^+ mu^- and e^{+-} mu^{-+} based on an analysis of 78 fb^{-1} of data collected by the Belle detector at KEKB. No candidate events have been found. Upper limits on the…