%0 Journal Article
%T Search for the Decays B-S(0) -> tau(+) tau(-) and B-0 -> tau(+) tau(-)
%A LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, R. et al
%A Garcia Martin, L. M.
%A Henry, L.
%A Martinez-Vidal, F.
%A Oyanguren, A.
%A Remon Alepuz, C.
%A Ruiz Valls, P.
%A Sanchez Mayordomo, C.
%J Physical Review Letters
%D 2017
%V 118
%N 25
%I Amer Physical Soc
%@ 0031-9007
%G English
%F LHCbCollaborationAaij_etal2017
%O WOS:000403790400001
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3172), last updated on Sun, 02 Jul 2017 22:49:37 +0000
%X A search for the rare decays B-S(0) -> tau(+) tau(-) and B-0 -> tau(+) tau(-) is performed using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb(-1) collected in 2011 and 2012. The tau leptons are reconstructed through the decay tau(-) -> pi(-) pi(+)pi(-) nu(tau). Assuming no contribution from B-S(0) -> tau(+) tau(-) decays, an upper limit is set on the branching fraction B(B-S(0) -> tau(+) tau(-)) < 6.8 x 10(-3) at the 95% confidence level. If instead no contribution from B-S(0) -> tau(+) tau(-) decays is assumed, the limit is B(B-s(0) -> tau(+) tau(-)) < 2.1 x 10(-3) at the 95% confidence level. These results correspond to the first direct limit on B(B-S(0) -> tau(+) tau(-)) and the world's best limit on B(B-S(0) -> tau(+) tau(-))
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.251802
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02508
%U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.251802
%P 251802 - 10pp