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Area of Science:

  • Particle Physics
  • High Energy Physics
  • Quantum Field Theory

Background:

  • Lepton flavor violation (LFV) is a key signature for new physics beyond the Standard Model.
  • The bottomonium system offers a unique platform to search for LFV due to its mass and quark content.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To search for lepton flavor violating decays Upsilon(nS) -> mu tau (n=1, 2, 3).
  • To set limits on the branching fractions of these LFV decays.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from the CLEO III detector.
  • Identified tau leptons via their nu_tau nu_e e decay channel.
  • Employed multidimensional likelihood fitting with probability density functions from independent data.

Main Results:

  • Established 95% confidence level (C.L.) upper limits on LFV branching fractions for Upsilon(1S), Upsilon(2S), and Upsilon(3S) decays.
  • The search found no significant signal for LFV.

Conclusions:

  • The results constrain parameters in extensions of the Standard Model.
  • Exclusion plots were generated for the energy scale and effective LFV coupling of hypothetical new interactions.