Test of lepton flavor universality by the measurement of the
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Aaij, R.
Adeva, B.
Adinolfi, M.
Ajaltouni, Z.
Akar, S.
Albrecht, J.
Alessio, F.
Alexander, M.
Alfonso Albero, A.
Ali, S.
Date Issued
April 2018
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Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
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Aaij, R. et al. "Test of lepton flavor universality by the measurement of the B⁰ → D*− τ+ντ branching fraction using three-prong τ decays." Physics Review D 97 (2018), 072013.
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Abstract
The ratio of branching fractions R(D^{*-})≡B(B^{0}→D^{*-}τ^{+}ν_{τ})/B(B^{0}→D^{*-}μ^{+}ν_{μ}) is measured using a data sample of proton-proton collisions collected with the LHCb detector at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb^{-1}. The τ lepton is reconstructed with three charged pions in the final state. A novel method is used that exploits the different vertex topologies of signal and backgrounds to isolate samples of semitauonic decays of b hadrons with high purity. Using the B^{0}→D^{*-}π^{+}π^{-}π^{+} decay as the normalization channel, the ratio B(B^{0}→D^{*-}τ^{+}ν_{τ})/B(B^{0}→D^{*-}π^{+}π^{-}π^{+}) is measured to be 1.97±0.13±0.18, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. An average of branching fraction measurements for the normalization channel is used to derive B(B^{0}→D^{*-}τ^{+}ν_{τ})=(1.42±0.094±0.129±0.054)%, where the third uncertainty is due to the limited knowledge of B(B^{0}→D^{*-}π^{+}π^{-}π^{+}). A test of lepton flavor universality is performed using the well-measured branching fraction B(B^{0}→D^{*-}μ^{+}ν_{μ}) to compute R(D^{*-})=0.291±0.019±0.026±0.013, where the third uncertainty originates from the uncertainties on B(B^{0}→D^{*-}π^{+}π^{-}π^{+}) and B(B^{0}→D^{*-}μ^{+}ν_{μ}). This measurement is in agreement with the Standard Model prediction and with previous measurements.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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