Search for Lepton-Flavor-Violating and Lepton-Number-Violating tau to lhh' Decay Modes

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Y. Miyazaki, I. Adachi, H. Aihara, D. M. Asner, V. Aulchenko, T. Aushev, A. M. Bakich, A. Bay, V. Bhardwaj, B. Bhuyan

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M. Bischofberger, A. Bozek, M. Bračko, T. E. Browder, M. -C. Chang, A. Chen, P. Chen, B. G. Cheon, R. Chistov, K. Cho, Y. Choi, J. Dalseno, Z. Doležal, A. Drutskoy, S. Eidelman, D. Epifanov, J. E. Fast, V. Gaur, N. Gabyshev, A. Garmash, Y. M. Goh, J. Haba, H. Hayashii, Y. Horii

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We search for lepton-flavor-violating and lepton-number-violating tau decays into a lepton (l = electron or muon) and two charged mesons (h, h' = pion or Kaon) using 854 fb^{-1} of data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e^+e^- collider. We obtain 90% confidence level upper limits on the tau to lhh' branching fractions in the range (2.0-8.4)*10^{-8}. These results improve upon our previously published upper limits by factors of about 1.8 on average.