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Search for Lepton Flavor-Violating "tau -> mu gamma" decay

K. Inami, T. Hokuue, T. Ohshima, Belle collaboration

hep-exarXiv:hep-ex/0210036

Abstract

We search for the lepton flavor-violating &#34;tau -> mu gamma&#34; decay using 29.7 million tau pairs accumulated by the Belle experiment. The main background sources are found to be tau pairs with &#34;tau -> mu nu nu&#34; decay and radiative dimuon events. One event is observed in the signal region, while 2.5 +- 0.6 background events are expected. A preliminary upper limit Br(tau -> mu gamma) < 6 x 10-7 at the 90% confidence limit is obtained.

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