Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions B(¯B0→D*+τ−¯ντ)/B(¯B0→D*+μ−¯νμ)
The branching fraction ratio R(D∗)≡B(¯B0→D*+τ−¯ντ)/B(¯B0→D*+μ−¯νμ) is measured using a sample of proton-proton collision data corresponding to 3.0 fb−1 of integrated luminosity recorded by the LHCb experiment during 2011 and 2012. The tau lepton is identified in the decay mode τ−→μ−¯νμντ. The semit...
| Autores: | , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:20.500.14342/3300 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/3300 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.111803 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Gran col·lisionador d'hadrons (França i Suïssa) Partícules (Física nuclear) Protons Col·lisions (Física nuclear) 53 |
| Sumario: | The branching fraction ratio R(D∗)≡B(¯B0→D*+τ−¯ντ)/B(¯B0→D*+μ−¯νμ) is measured using a sample of proton-proton collision data corresponding to 3.0 fb−1 of integrated luminosity recorded by the LHCb experiment during 2011 and 2012. The tau lepton is identified in the decay mode τ−→μ−¯νμντ. The semitauonic decay is sensitive to contributions from non-standard-model particles that preferentially couple to the third generation of fermions, in particular, Higgs-like charged scalars. A multidimensional fit to kinematic distributions of the candidate ¯B0 decays gives R(D∗)=0.336±0.027(stat)±0.030(syst). This result, which is the first measurement of this quantity at a hadron collider, is 2.1 standard deviations larger than the value expected from lepton universality in the standard model. |
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