Study of 3-prong hadronic tau decays with charged kaons - art. no. 112002

Authors
Richichi, SJ Severini, H Skubic, P Undrus, A Bishai, M Chen, S Fast, J Hinson, JW Menon, N Miller, DH Shibata, EI Shipsey, IPJ Glenn, S Kwon, Y Lyon, AL Roberts, S Thorndike, EH Jessop, CP Lingel, K Marsiske, H Perl, ML Savinov, V Ugolini, D Zhou, X Coan, TE Fadeyev, V Korolkov, I Maravin, Y Narsky, I Stroynowski, R Ye, J Artuso, M Dambasuren, E Kopp, S Moneti, GC Mountain, R Schuh, S Skwarnicki, T Stone, S Titov, A Viehhauser, G Wang, JC Bartelt, J Csorna, SE McLean, KW Marka, S Xu, Z Godang, R Kinoshita, K Lai, IC Pomianowski, P Schrenk, S Bonvicini, G Cinabro, D Greene, R Perera, LP Zhou, GJ Chan, S Eigen, G Lipeles, E Miller, JS Schmidtler, M Shapiro, A Sun, WM Urheim, J Weinstein, AJ Wurthwein, F Bliss, DW Jaffe, DE Masek, G Paar, HP Potter, EM Prell, S Sharma, V Asner, DM Gronberg, J Hill, TS Lange, DJ Morrison, RJ Nelson, HN Nelson, TK Roberts, D Behrens, BH Ford, WT Gritsan, A Krieg, H Roy, J Smith, JG Alexander, JP Baker, R Bebek, C Berger, BE Berkelman, K Boisvert, V Cassel, DG Crowcroft, DS Dickson, M von Dombrowski, S Drell, PS Ecklund, KM Ehrlich, R Foland, AD Gaidarev, P Galik, RS Gibbons, L Gittelman, B Gray, SW Hartill, DL Heltsley, BK Hopman, PI Kandaswamy, J Kreinick, DL Lee, T Liu, Y Mistry, NB Ng, CR Nordberg, E Ogg, M Patterson, JP Peterson, D Riley, D Soffer, A Valant-Spaight, B Ward, C Athanas, M Avery, P Jones, CD Lohner, M Patton, S Prescott, C Rubiera, AI Yelton, J Zheng, J Brandenburg, G Briere, RA Ershov, A Gao, YS Kim, DYJ Wilson, R Yamamoto, H Browder, TE Li, Y Rodriguez, JL Sahu, SK Bergfeld, T Eisenstein, BI Ernst, J Gladding, GE Gollin, GD Hans, RM Johnson, E Karliner, I Marsh, MA Palmer, M Selen, M Thaler, JJ Edwards, KW Bellerive, A Janicek, R Patel, PM Sadoff, AJ Ammar, R Baringer, P Bean, A Besson, D Coppage, D Darling, C Davis, R Kotov, S Kravchenko, I Kwak, N Zhou, L Anderson, S Kubota, Y Lee, SJ Mahapatra, R O'Neill, JJ Poling, R Riehle, T Smith, A Alam, MS Athar, SB Ling, Z Mahmood, AH Timm, S Wappler, F Anastassov, A Duboscq, JE Gan, KK Hart, T Honscheid, K Kagan, H Kass, R Lee, J Schwarthoff, H Spencer, MB Wolf, A Zoeller, MM
Citation
Sj. Richichi et al., Study of 3-prong hadronic tau decays with charged kaons - art. no. 112002, PHYS REV D, 6011(11), 1999, pp. 2002
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
ISSN journal
05562821 → ACNP
Volume
6011
Issue
11
Year of publication
1999
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(199912)6011:11<2002:SO3HTD>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Using a sample of 4.7 fb(-1) integrated luminosity accumulated with the CLE O-II detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), we have measured the ratios of the branching fractions B(tau(-) --> K- h(+) pi(-) nu(tau))/ B(tau(-) --> h(-) h(+) h(-) v(tau)) = (5.16+/-0.20+/-0.50) X 10(-2), B(tau( -) --> K- h(+) pi(-) pi(0) nu(tau))/B(tau(-) --> h(-) h(+) h(-) pi(0) nu(ta u)) = (2.54+/-0.44+/-0.39) X 10(-2), B(tau(-) --> K- K+ pi(-) nu(tau))/B(ta u(-) --> h(-) h(+) h(-) nu(tau)) = (1.52+/-0.14+/-0.29) X 10(-2), and the u pper limit B(tau(-) --> K- K+ pi(-) pi(0) nu(tau))/B(tau(-) --> h(-) h(+) h (-) pi(0) nu(tau)) < 0.0154 at 95% C.L. Coupled with additional experimenta l information, we use our results to extract information on the structure o f three-prong tau decays to charged kaons. [S0556-2821(99)03319-6].