Measurement of B- -> tau- nu_tau-bar Decay With a Semileptonic Tagging Method

TL;DR

This paper reports a new measurement of the B- -> tau- nu_tau-bar decay using a semileptonic tagging method, confirming previous evidence with improved techniques and a large data sample at Belle.

Contribution

It introduces a semileptonic B tagging method for measuring B- -> tau- nu_tau-bar decay, providing a new result consistent with prior measurements and enhancing experimental approaches.

Findings

Branching fraction measured as (1.65+0.38-0.37(stat)+0.35-0.37(syst))*10^4

Signal significance of 3.8 standard deviations including systematics

Results confirm previous evidence for the decay

Abstract

We present a new measurement of the decay B- -> tau- nu_tau-bar with a semileptonic B tagging method, using a data sample containing 657*10^6 BB-bar pairs collected at the (4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric e+e- collider. A sample of BB pairs are tagged by reconstructing one B meson decaying semileptonically. We detect the B- -> tau- nu_tau-bar candidate in the recoil. We obtain a signal with a signicance of 3.8 standard deviations including systematics, and measure the branching fraction to be B(B- -> tau- nu_tau-bar)=(1.65+0.38-0.37(stat)+0.35-0.37(syst))*10^4. This result confirms the evidence for B- -> tau- nu_tau-bartained in the previous Belle measurement with a hadronic B tagging method.