Journal article
Measurement of R (D) and R (D∗) with a Semileptonic Tagging Method
G Caria, P Urquijo, I Adachi, H Aihara, S Al Said, DM Asner, H Atmacan, T Aushev, V Babu, I Badhrees, S Bahinipati, AM Bakich, P Behera, C Beleño, J Bennett, B Bhuyan, T Bilka, J Biswal, A Bozek, M Bračko Show all
Physical Review Letters | Published : 2020
Abstract
The experimental results on the ratios of branching fractions R(D)=B(B→Dτ-ντ)/B(B→Dℓ-νℓ) and R(D∗)=B(B→D∗τ-ντ)/B(B→D∗ℓ-νℓ), where ℓ denotes an electron or a muon, show a long-standing discrepancy with the standard model predictions, and might hint at a violation of lepton flavor universality. We report a new simultaneous measurement of R(D) and R(D∗), based on a data sample containing 772×106 BB events recorded at the ϒ(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- collider. In this analysis the tag-side B meson is reconstructed in a semileptonic decay mode and the signal-side τ is reconstructed in a purely leptonic decay. The measured values are R(D)=0.307±0.037±0.016 and R(D∗)=0.2..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the KEKB group for excellent operation of the accelerator; the KEK cryogenics group for efficient solenoid operations; and the KEK computer group, the NII, and PNNL/EMSL for valuable computing and SINET5 network support. We acknowledge support from MEXT, JSPS and Nagoya's Tau-Lepton Physics Research Center of Nagoya University (TLPRC); ARC (Australia); FWF (Austria); NSFC and CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics(CCEPP) (China); MSMT (Czechia); Carl Zeiss Foundation (CZF), DFG, Excellence Cluster Universe (EXC153), and VolkswagenStiftung (VS) (Germany); DST (India); INFN (Italy); MOE, MSIP, NRF, Radiation Science Research Institute (RSRI), Foreign Large-size Research Facility Application Supporting project (FLRFAS) project, GSDC of KISTI and KREONET/GLORIAD (Korea); MNiSW and NCN (Poland), Agreement No. 14.W03.31.0026 (Russia); ARRS (Slovenia); IKERBASQUE (Spain); SNSF (Switzerland); MOE and MOST (Taiwan); and DOE and NSF (U.S.A.). We acknowledge the support provided by the Albert Shimmins Fund for the writing of this Letter.