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Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in the Decay τ±→μ±γ
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Aubert, B; Barate, R; Boutigny, D; Couderc, F; Karyotakis, Y; Lees, JP; Poireau, V; Tisserand, V; Zghiche, A; Grauges-Pous, E; Palano, A; Pompili, A; Chen, JC; Qi, ND; Rong, G; Wang, P; Zhu, YS; Eigen, G; Ofte, I; Stugu, B; Abrams, GS; Borgland, AW; Breon, AB; Brown, DN; Button-Shafer, J; Cahn, RN; Charles, E; Day, CT; Gill, MS; Gritsan, AV; Groysman, Y; Jacobsen, RG; Kadel, RW; Kadyk, J; Kerth, LT; Kolomensky, Yu G; Kukartsev, G; Lynch, G; Mir, LM; Oddone, PJ; Orimoto, TJ; Pripstein, M; Roe, NA; Ronan, MT; Wenzel, WA; Barrett, M; Ford, KE; Harrison, TJ; Hart, AJ; Hawkes, CM; Morgan, SE; Watson, AT; Fritsch, M; Goetzen, K; Held, T; Koch, H; Lewandowski, B; Pelizaeus, M; Peters, K; Schroeder, T; Steinke, M; Boyd, JT; Burke, JP; Chevalier, N; Cottingham, WN; Kelly, MP; Latham, TE; Wilson, FF; Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T; Hearty, C; Knecht, NS; Mattison, TS; McKenna, JA; Thiessen, D; Khan, A; Kyberd, P; Teodorescu, L; Blinov, AE; Blinov, VE; Druzhinin, VP; Golubev, VB; Ivanchenko, VN; Kravchenko, EA; Onuchin, AP; Serednyakov, SI; Skovpen, Yu I; Solodov, EP; Yushkov, AN; Best, D; Bruinsma, M; Chao, M; Eschrich, I; Kirkby, D; Lankford, AJ; Mandelkern, M; Mommsen, RK; Roethel, W; Stoker, DP; Buchanan, C; Hartfiel, BL
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Physical Review Letters. 95(4)
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A search for the nonconservation of lepton flavor number in the decay tau(+/-) --> mu(+/-) has been performed using 2.07 x 10(8) e(+ )e(-) tau(+) tau(-) events produced at a center-of-mass energy near 10.58 GeV with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage ring. We find no evidence for a signal and set an upper limit on the branching ratio of Beta(tau(+/-) --> mu(+/-) gamma) < 6.8 x 10(-8) at 90% confidence level.