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A search for neutrinoless tau decays to three leptons

xix, 140 p. ; ill. (some col.) A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Using approximately 350 million à + à - pair events recorded with the BaBar detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center between 1999 and 2006, a search has been made for neutrinoless, lepton-flavor violating tau decays to three lighter leptons. All six decay modes consistent with conservation of electric charge and energy have been considered. With signal selection efficiencies of 5-12%, we obtain 90% confidence level upper limits on the branching fraction B (à [arrow right] [cursive l][cursive l][cursive l]) in the range (4 - 8) à 10 -8 . / Adviser: Eric Torrence

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uoregon.edu/oai:scholarsbank.uoregon.edu:1794/8333
Date06 1900
CreatorsKolb, Jeffrey A., 1979-
PublisherUniversity of Oregon
Source SetsUniversity of Oregon
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
RelationUniversity of Oregon theses, Dept. of Physics, Ph. D., 2008;

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