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B. Aubert · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

M. Bóna · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

D. Boutigny · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

F. Couderc · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Y. Karyotakis · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

J. P. Lees · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

V. Poireau

Abstract

A search for lepton flavor violating decays of the tau lepton to a lighter mass lepton and a pseudoscalar meson has been performed using 339 fb;{-1} of e;{+}e;{-} annihilation data collected at a center-of-mass energy near 10.58 GeV by the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II storage ring. No evidence of a signal has been found, and upper limits on the branching fractions are set at the 10;{-7} level.

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Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Neutrino Physics Research Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

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Published in: Physical Review Letters

Volume 98, Issue 6, pp. 061803-061803

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.061803

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