Measurement of the $τ$-lepton lifetime at Belle
hep-ex
/ Authors
Belle Collaboration, K. Belous, M. Shapkin, A. Sokolov, I. Adachi, H. Aihara, D. M. Asner, V. Aulchenko, A. M. Bakich, A. Bala
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B. Bhuyan, A. Bobrov, A. Bondar, G. Bonvicini, A. Bozek, M. Bračko, T. E. Browder, D. Červenkov, V. Chekelian, A. Chen, B. G. Cheon, K. Chilikin, R. Chistov, K. Cho, V. Chobanova, Y. Choi, D. Cinabro, J. Dalseno, Z. Doležal, D. Dutta, S. Eidelman, D. Epifanov, H. Farhat, J. E. Fast
/ Abstract
The lifetime of the $τ$-lepton is measured using the process $e^+e^-\rightarrowτ^+τ^-$, where both $τ$-leptons decay to $3πν_τ$. The result for the mean lifetime, based on $711\,\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of data collected with the Belle detector at the $Υ(4S)$ resonance and $60\,\mathrm{MeV}$ below, is $τ= (290.17 \pm 0.53(\mathrm{stat.}) \pm 0.33(\mathrm{syst.}))\cdot10^{-15}\,\mathrm{s}$. The first measurement of the lifetime difference between $τ^+$ and $τ^-$ is performed. The upper limit on the relative lifetime difference between positive and negative $τ$-leptons is $|Δτ| / τ< 7.0 \times 10^{-3}$ at 90% CL.