New method for beyond the Standard Model invisible particle searches in tau lepton decays

Authors

E. De La Cruz-Burelo, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
A. De Yta-Hernandez, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
M. Hernandez-Villanueva, University of Mississippi

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2020

Abstract

Motivated by models proposed to explain Standard Model anomalies, and the unprecedented τ+τ- data to be collected by the Belle II experiment during the next years, we study the kinematics of tau pair decays and propose a new method to search for lepton flavor violating processes in tau lepton decays to invisible beyond Standard Model particles, such as τ→ℓα, where ℓ is either an electron or a muon, and α is a massive particle that escapes undetected. The new method improves by one order of magnitude the expected upper limit on the τ→ℓα production in 3×1 prong tau decays and establishes the possibility of performing this search in 1×1 prong tau decays which has not been previously considered.

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journal article

Recommended Citation

De La Cruz-Burelo, E., De Yta-Hernandez, A., & Hernandez-Villanueva, M. (2020). New method for beyond the Standard Model invisible particle searches in tau lepton decays. Physical Review D, 102(11), 115001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.115001

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevD.102.115001

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