DECAY PROPERTIES OF TAU-LEPTONS MEASURED AT THE Z0 RESONANCE

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作者
ADEVA, B
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[1] European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN
[2] INFN - Sezione di Firenze, University of Firenze
[3] Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, CIEMAT
[4] Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
[5] INFN - Sezione di Napoli, University of Naples
[6] Northeastern University, Boston
[7] INFN - Sezione di Perugia, Universitá Degli Studi di Perugia
[8] World Laboratory, FBLJA Project
[9] Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, ETH Zürich
[10] Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
[11] Leningrad Nuclear Physics Institute
[12] Central Laboratory of Automation and Instrumentation, CLANP, Sofia
[13] INFN - Sezione di Bologna
[14] Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ITEP
[15] University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
[16] Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay
[17] INFN - Sezione di Roma, University of Rome La Sapeinza
[18] Princeton University, Princeton
[19] University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
[20] University of Geneva
[21] Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, LAPP
[22] Central Research Institute for Physics, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
[23] I. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH, W-5100 Aachen, FRG1 1 Supported by the German Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie. and III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH
[24] National Institute for High Energy Physics, NIKHEF
[25] University of California, San Diego
[26] Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
[27] Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, IN2P3-CNRS/Université Claude Bernard
[28] Purdue University, West Lafayette
[29] Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore
[30] Institute of High Energy Physics, IHEP, Beijing
[31] University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 029
[32] Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge
[33] University of Nijmegen, NIKHEF
[34] Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Würenlingen
[35] Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, SIC, Shanghai
[36] University of Laussane
[37] California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
[38] Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos
[39] Harvard University, Cambridge
[40] Union College, Schenectady
[41] University of Hamburg
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10.1016/0370-2693(91)90081-Z
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摘要
From 2540 Z0 --> tau+tau- events, we determine the inclusive decay branching fractions of the tau-lepton into one and three charged particles to be 0.856 +/- 0.006 (stat.) +/- 0.003 (syst.) and 0.144 +/- 0.006 (stat.) +/- 0.003 (syst.), respectively. The leptonic branching fractions are measured to be 0.175 +/- 0.008 (stat.) +/- 0.005 (syst.) for tau --> mu-nu-mu-nu-tau and 0.177 +/- 0.007 (stat.) +/- 0.006 (syst.) for tau --> e-nu-e-nu-tau. We determine the tau-lifetime both from three-prong decays using the decay length and from one-prong decays using the impact parameter. The results from the two independent methods agree and yield a combined value of [0.309 +/- 0.023 (stat.) +/- 0.030 (syst.)] x 10(-12)s.
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