Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 97, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072013
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- CERN
- CAPES (Brazil)
- CNPq (Brazil)
- FAPERJ (Brazil)
- FINEP (Brazil)
- MOST (China)
- NSFC (China)
- CNRS/IN2P3 (France)
- BMBF (Germany)
- DFG (Germany)
- MPG (Germany)
- INFN (Italy)
- NWO (The Netherlands)
- MNiSW (Poland)
- NCN (Poland)
- MEN/IFA (Romania)
- MinES (Russia)
- FASO (Russia)
- MinECo (Spain)
- SNSF (Switzerland)
- SER (Switzerland)
- NASU (Ukraine)
- STFC (United Kingdom)
- NSF (U.S.)
- AvH Foundation (Germany)
- EPLANET (European Union)
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (European Union)
- ERC (European Union)
- ANR, Labex P2IO (France)
- ANR, ENIGMASS (France)
- ANR, OCEVU (France)
- Region Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes (France)
- RFBR (Russia)
- Yandex LLC (Russia)
- GVA (Spain)
- XuntaGal (Spain)
- GENCAT (Spain)
- Herchel Smith Fund (United Kingdom)
- Royal Society (United Kingdom)
- English-Speaking Union (United Kingdom)
- Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom)
- STFC [LHCb Upgrades, ST/N000331/1, ST/J004332/1, ST/N000463/1, 1707993, 1796908, ST/L003163/1, ST/H006737/1, ST/N000455/1, LHCb, ST/G005974/1, ST/N000242/1, ST/K003410/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The ratio of branching fractions R(D*(-)) = B(B-0 -> D*(-) tau(+)nu(tau))/(B-0 -> D*(-) mu(+)nu(mu)) is measured using a data sample of proton-proton collisions collected with the LHCb detector at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb(-1). The tau lepton is reconstructed with three charged pions in the final state. A novel method is used that exploits the different vertex topologies of signal and backgrounds to isolate samples of semitauonic decays of b hadrons with high purity. Using the B-0 -> D*(-) pi(+)pi(-)pi(+) decay as the normalization channel, the ratio B(B-0 -> D*(-) tau(+)nu(tau))/B(B-0 -> D* pi(+)pi(-)pi(+)) is measured to be 1.97 +/- 0.13 +/- 0.18, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. An average of branching fraction measurements for the normalization channel is used to derive B(B-0 -> D*(-) tau(+)nu(tau))(_)= (1.42 +/- 0.094 +/- 0.129 +/- 0.054)%, where the third uncertainty is due to the limited knowledge of B(B-0 -> D*(-) pi(+)pi(-)pi(+)). A test of lepton flavor universality is performed using the well- measured branching fraction B(B-0 -> D*(-) mu(+)nu(mu)) to compute R(D*(-))0 = 0.291 +/- 0.019 +/- 0.026 +/- 0.013, where the third uncertainty originates from the uncertainties on B(B-0 -> D*(-) pi(+)pi(-)pi(+)) and B(B-0 -> D*(-) mu(+)nu(mu)) This measurement is in agreement with the Standard Model prediction and with previous measurements.
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