@article{a05936bc733348888a3e1a94fa49881a,
title = "Search for B+ →k+τ+τ- at the BaBar Experiment",
abstract = "We search for the rare flavor-changing neutral current process B+→K+τ+τ- using data from the BABAR experiment. The data sample, collected at the center-of-mass energy of the (4S) resonance, corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 424 fb-1 and to 471×106 BB pairs. We reconstruct one B meson, produced in the (4S)→B+B- decay, in one of many hadronic decay modes and search for activity compatible with a B+→K+τ+τ- decay in the rest of the event. Each τ lepton is required to decay leptonically into an electron or muon and neutrinos. Comparing the expected number of background events with the data sample after applying the selection criteria, we do not find evidence for a signal. The resulting upper limit, at the 90% confidence level, is B(B+→K+τ+τ-)<2.25×10-3.",
author = "{(BABAR Collaboration)} and Lees, {J. P.} and V. Poireau and V. Tisserand and E. Grauges and A. Palano and G. Eigen and Brown, {D. N.} and Kolomensky, {Yu G.} and H. Koch and T. Schroeder and C. Hearty and Mattison, {T. S.} and McKenna, {J. A.} and So, {R. Y.} and Blinov, {V. E.} and Buzykaev, {A. R.} and Druzhinin, {V. P.} and Golubev, {V. B.} and Kravchenko, {E. A.} and Onuchin, {A. P.} and Serednyakov, {S. I.} and Skovpen, {Yu I.} and Solodov, {E. P.} and Todyshev, {K. Yu} and Lankford, {A. J.} and Gary, {J. W.} and O. Long and Eisner, {A. M.} and Lockman, {W. S.} and {Panduro Vazquez}, W. and Chao, {D. S.} and Cheng, {C. H.} and B. Echenard and Flood, {K. T.} and Hitlin, {D. G.} and J. Kim and Miyashita, {T. S.} and P. Ongmongkolkul and Porter, {F. C.} and M. R{\"o}hrken and Z. Huard and Meadows, {B. T.} and Pushpawela, {B. G.} and Sokoloff, {M. D.} and L. Sun and Smith, {J. G.} and Wagner, {S. R.} and D. Bernard and M. Verderi and Lange, {D. J.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 American Physical Society.",
year = "2017",
month = jan,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.031802",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "118",
journal = "Physical review letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "3",
}