51. Measurement of the decayτ − →ρ − ν τ
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G. Kernel, J. D. Prentice, J. Stiewe, W. Schmidt-Parzefall, M. Schieber, K. T. Knöpfle, P. M. Patel, S. Werner, Mikhail Danilov, K. Ehret, C. Hast, Michael Schneider, Thomas Hamacher, V. Soloshenko, T. Zivko, H. Schröder, K. Strahl, Vladislav Balagura, H. Wegener, P. Murat, Manfred Paulini, R. D. Appuhn, T. Podobnik, Peter Krieger, C. E. K. Charlesworth, Werner Hofmann, D. Ressing, A. Hüpper, T. Kirchhoff, A. Lange, T. S. Yoon, G. Kostina, I. V. Gorelov, Leif J. Jönsson, H. Kapitza, Fedor Ratnikov, Holger Schulz, T. Oest, T. Siegmund, Dave Britton, Richard George van de Water, R. Reiner, P. Krizan, V. Shibaev, Yu. Zaitsev, D. B. MacFarlane, Ivan Belyaev, Sameen Ahmed Khan, A. Droutskoy, H. Albrecht, I. Tikhomirov, R. Mankel, R. Wurth, V. Lyubimov, P. R. B. Saull, B. Spaan, W. Funk, M. Walter, A. Walther, D. Töpfer, H. I. Cronström, A. Golutvin, A. Lindner, E. Kriznic, R. Waldi, R. P. Hofmann, Klaus R. Schubert, E.R.F. Hyatt, K. W. Edwards, Sebastian Nowak, D. Wegener, A. Nau, Sergey Semenov, Hermann Kolanoski, P. Pakhlov, S. Weseler, H. Ehrlichmann, M. Schmidtler, R. Mundt, H. Thurn, K. Reim, K. Tzamariudaki, and J. Spengler
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Physics ,Particle physics ,Argus ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,Branching fraction ,Electron–positron annihilation ,Coupling (probability) ,Pion ,Tau neutrino ,Invariant mass ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,computer ,computer.programming_language ,Spin-½ - Abstract
An analysis of the decay τ-→π-π0vτ has been performed using the ARGUS detector at the DORIS II storage ring. The branching ratio has been determined to be Br(τ-→π-π0vτ=(22.6±0.4±0.9)%. The shape of the π-π0 invariant mass spectrum is found to be in good agreement with the predictions obtained using the conserved vector current (CVC) hypothesis, suggesting that the π-π0 system is produced in aJP=1− state. An analysis of the measured decay angular distribution of the pions with respect to the flight direction of the π-π0 system demonstrates the vector nature of the coupling at the τvτ vertex. With the assumption of zerovτ mass thevτ spin has been shown to be\(J_{v_\tau}= \tfrac{1}{2} \).
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- 1992
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