Journal article
Measurement of the branching ratio of B0 →d∗ τ- ν τ relative to B 0 →d∗ ℓ −νℓ decays with a semileptonic tagging method
Y Sato, T Iijima, K Adamczyk, H Aihara, DM Asner, H Atmacan, T Aushev, R Ayad, T Aziz, V Babu, I Badhrees, AM Bakich, V Bansal, P Behera, V Bhardwaj, B Bhuyan, J Biswal, G Bonvicini, A Bozek, M Bračko Show all
Physical Review D | Published : 2016
Abstract
We report a measurement of the ratio R(D∗)=B(B0→D∗+τ-ντ)/B(B0→D∗+ν), where denotes an electron or a muon. The results are based on a data sample containing 772×106 BB pairs recorded at the (4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- collider. We select a sample of B0B0 pairs by reconstructing both B mesons in semileptonic decays to D∗ ±. We measure R(D∗)=0.302±0.030(stat)±0.011(syst), which is within 1.6σ of the Standard Model theoretical expectation, where the standard deviation σ includes systematic uncertainties. We use this measurement to constrain several scenarios of new physics in a model-independent approach.
Grants
Awarded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Y. Sakaki, R. Watanabe, and M. Tanaka for their invaluable suggestions. This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (No. 13J03438) and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) "Probing New Physics with Tau-Lepton" (Grant No. 26220706). We thank the KEKB group for the excellent operation of the accelerator; the KEK cryogenics group for the efficient operation of the solenoid; and the KEK computer group, the National Institute of Informatics, and the PNNL/EMSL computing group for valuable computing and SINET4 network support. We acknowledge support from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and the Tau-Lepton Physics Research Center of Nagoya University; the Australian Research Council; Austrian Science Fund under Grants No. P 22742-N16 and No. P 26794-N20; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Contracts No. 10575109, No. 10775142, No. 10875115, No. 11175187, No. 11475187, and No. 11575017; the Chinese Academy of Science Center for Excellence in Particle Physics; the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under Contract No. LG14034; the Carl Zeiss Foundation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Excellence Cluster Universe, and the VolkswagenStiftung; the Department of Science and Technology of India; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy; the WCU program of the Ministry of Education, National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea Grants No. 2011-0029457, No. 2012-0008143, No. 2012R1A1A2008330, No. 2013R1A1A3007772, No. 2014R1A2A2A01005286, No. 2014R1A2A2A01002734, No. 2015R1A2A2A01003280, and No. 2015H1A2A 1033649; the Basic Research Lab program under NRF Grant No. KRF-2011-0020333, Center for Korean J-PARC Users, No. NRF-2013K1A3A7A06056592; the Brain Korea 21-Plus program and Radiation Science Research Institute; the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Center; the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research; the Slovenian Research Agency; Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science and the Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) under program UFI 11/55 (Spain); the Swiss National Science Foundation; the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan; and the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. This work is supported by a Grant-in-Aid from MEXT for Science Research in a Priority Area ("New Development of Flavor Physics") and from JSPS for Creative Scientific Research ("Evolution of Tau-lepton Physics").