Three different techniques are used to measure the mean decay length of the tau lepton with a high precision vertex detector in a sample of 11 800 tau pairs coming from Z decays, collected in 1991 by ALEPH at LEP. Events in which both tau's decay into one charged track are analyzed using two largely independent methods. Displaced vertices in three-prong decays yield another independent measurement. The derived lifetime is 295.5 +/- 5.9 +/- 3.1 fs, using m(tau) = 1777.1 +/- 0.5 MeV/c2. Including previous (1989-1990) ALEPH measurements, the combined tau lifetime is 294.7 +/- 5.4 +/- 3.0 fs.

A precise measurement of the τ lepton lifetime / Buskulic, D., Decamp, D., Goy, C., Lees, J.-P., Minard, M.-N., Mours, B., Alemany, R., Ariztizabal, F., Comas, P., Crespo, J.M., Delfino, M., Fernandez, E., Gaitan, V., Garrido, Ll., Mattison, T., Pacheco, A., Padilla, C., Pascual, A., Creanza, D., de Palma, M., et al.. - In: PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B. - ISSN 0370-2693. - STAMPA. - 297:3-4(1992), pp. 432-448. [10.1016/0370-2693(92)91283-F]

A precise measurement of the τ lepton lifetime

Creanza, D.;Iaselli, G.;Maggi, G.;
1992

Abstract

Three different techniques are used to measure the mean decay length of the tau lepton with a high precision vertex detector in a sample of 11 800 tau pairs coming from Z decays, collected in 1991 by ALEPH at LEP. Events in which both tau's decay into one charged track are analyzed using two largely independent methods. Displaced vertices in three-prong decays yield another independent measurement. The derived lifetime is 295.5 +/- 5.9 +/- 3.1 fs, using m(tau) = 1777.1 +/- 0.5 MeV/c2. Including previous (1989-1990) ALEPH measurements, the combined tau lifetime is 294.7 +/- 5.4 +/- 3.0 fs.
1992
A precise measurement of the τ lepton lifetime / Buskulic, D., Decamp, D., Goy, C., Lees, J.-P., Minard, M.-N., Mours, B., Alemany, R., Ariztizabal, F., Comas, P., Crespo, J.M., Delfino, M., Fernandez, E., Gaitan, V., Garrido, Ll., Mattison, T., Pacheco, A., Padilla, C., Pascual, A., Creanza, D., de Palma, M., et al.. - In: PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B. - ISSN 0370-2693. - STAMPA. - 297:3-4(1992), pp. 432-448. [10.1016/0370-2693(92)91283-F]
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