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Measurement of the tau lifetime.
- Author(s): Amidei, D
- Trilling, GH
- Abrams, GS
- Baden, AR
- Boyer, J
- Butler, F
- Gidal, G
- Gold, MK
- Goldhaber, G
- Golding, L
- Haggerty, J
- Herrup, D
- Juricic, I
- Kadyk, JA
- Nelson, ME
- Rowson, PC
- Schellman, H
- Schmidke, WB
- Sheldon, PD
- de la Vaissiere C
- Wood, DR
- Jaros, JA
- Barklow, T
- Boyarski, AM
- Burchat, P
- Burke, DL
- Dorfan, JM
- Feldman, GJ
- Gladney, L
- Hanson, G
- Hayes, K
- Hollebeek, RJ
- Innes, WR
- Karlen, D
- Klein, SR
- Lankford, AJ
- Larsen, RR
- LeClaire, BW
- Levi, ME
- Lockyer, NS
- Lüth, V
- Matteuzzi, C
- Ong, RA
- Perl, ML
- Richter, B
- Riles, K
- Yelton, JM
- Schaad, T
- et al.
Abstract
We have used a high-resolution drift chamber in the Mark II detector at the SLAC storage ring PEP to measure the lifetime of leptons produced in e+e- annihilations at 29 GeV. Based on the flight-path distribution of 807 three-prong decays, the lifetime is found to be (2.880.16 0.17)×10-13 sec, in agreement with expectations for e - universality. © 1988 The American Physical Society.
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