Update of the search for the neutrinoless decay tau ->mu gamma - art. no. 071101

Authors
Ahmed, S Alam, MS Athar, SB Jian, L Ling, L Mahmood, AH Saleem, M Timm, S Wappler, F Anastassov, A Duboscq, JE Gan, KK Gwon, C Hart, T Honscheid, K Kagan, H Kass, R Lorenc, J Pedlar, TK Schwarthoff, H von Toerne, E Zoeller, MM Richichi, SJ Severini, H Skubic, P Undrus, A Chen, S Fast, J Hinson, JW Lee, J Menon, N Miller, DH Shibata, EI Shipsey, IPJ Pavlunin, V Cronin-Hennessy, D Kwon, Y Lyon, AL Thorndike, EH Jessop, CP Marsiske, H Perl, ML Savinov, V Ugolini, D Zhou, X Coan, TE Fadeyev, V Korolkov, I Maravin, Y Narsky, I Stroynowski, R Ye, J Wlodek, T Artuso, M Ayad, R Dambasuren, E Kopp, S Majumder, G Moneti, GC Mountain, R Schuh, S Skwarnicki, T Stone, S Viehhauser, G Wang, JC Wolf, A Wu, J Csorna, SE McLean, KW Marka, S Xu, Z Godang, R Kinoshita, K Lai, IC Schrenk, S Bonvicini, G Cinabro, D Perera, LP Zhou, GJ Eigen, G Lipeles, E Schmidtler, M Shapiro, A Sun, WM Weinstein, AJ Wurthwein, F Jaffe, DE Masek, G Paar, HP Potter, EM Prell, S Sharma, V Asner, DM Eppich, A Gronberg, J Hill, TS Lange, DJ Morrison, RJ Nelson, HN Briere, RA Behrens, BH Ford, WT Gritsan, A Roy, J Smith, JG Alexander, JP Baker, R Bebek, C Berger, BE Berkelman, K Blanc, F Boisvert, V Cassel, DG Dickson, M Drell, PS Ecklund, KM Ehrlich, R Foland, AD Gaidarev, P Galik, RS Gibbons, L Gittelman, B Gray, SW Hartill, DL Heltsley, BK Hopman, PI Jones, CD Kreinick, DL Lohner, M Meyer, TO Mistry, NB Ng, CR Nordberg, E Patterson, JR Peterson, D Riley, D Thayer, JG Thies, PG Valant-Spaight, B Warburton, A Avery, P Prescott, C Rubiera, AI Yelton, J Zheng, J Brandenburg, G Ershov, A Gao, YS Kim, DYJ Wilson, R Browder, TE Li, Y Rodriguez, JL Yamamoto, H Bergfeld, T Eisenstein, BI Ernst, J Gladding, GE Gollin, GD Hans, RM Johnson, E Karliner, I Marsh, MA Palmer, M Plager, C Sedlack, C Selen, M Thaler, JJ Williams, J Edwards, KW Janicek, R Patel, PM Sadoff, AJ Ammar, R Baringer, P Bean, A Besson, D Davis, R Kravchenko, I Kwak, N Zhao, X Anderson, S Frolov, VV Kubota, Y Lee, SJ Mahapatra, R O'Neill, JJ Poling, R Riehle, T Smith, A Urheim, J
Citation
S. Ahmed et al., Update of the search for the neutrinoless decay tau ->mu gamma - art. no. 071101, PHYS REV D, 6107(7), 2000, pp. 1101
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
ISSN journal
05562821 → ACNP
Volume
6107
Issue
7
Year of publication
2000
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(20000401)6107:7<1101:UOTSFT>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
We present an update of the search for the lepton family number violating d ecay tau-->mu gamma using 12.6 million tau(+)tau(-) pairs collected with th e CLEO detector. No evidence of a signal has been found and the correspondi ng upper limit is B(tau--> mu gamma) <1.1x10(-6) at 90% C.L, significantly smaller than previous experimental limits.