Measurements of Branching Fractions of $τ$ Lepton Decays with one or more $K^{0}_{S}$
Creators: name: Belle Collaboration
name: Ryu, S.
name: Adachi, I.
name: Aihara, H.
name: Asner, D. M.
name: Aulchenko, V.
name: Aushev, T.
name: Bakich, A. M.
name: Bala, A.
name: Bhuyan, B.
name: Bobrov, A.
name: Bondar, A.
name: Bonvicini, G.
name: Bozek, A.
name: Bračko, M.
name: Browder, T. E.
name: Červenkov, D.
name: Chekelian, V.
name: Cheon, B. G.
name: Chilikin, K.
name: Chistov, R.
name: Cho, K.
name: Chobanova, V.
name: Choi, S. -K.
name: Choi, Y.
name: Dalseno, J.
name: Doležal, Z.
name: Dutta, D.
name: Eidelman, S.
name: Epifanov, D.
name: Farhat, H.
name: Fast, J. E.
name: Ferber, T.
name: Gaur, V.
name: Gabyshev, N.
name: Ganguly, S.
name: Garmash, A.
name: Gillard, R.
name: Goh, Y. M.
name: Golob, B.
name: Haba, J.
name: Hayasaka, K.
name: Hayashii, H.
name: Hoshi, Y.
name: Hou, W. -S.
name: Iijima, T.
name: Inami, K.
name: Ishikawa, A.
name: Iwashita, T.
name: Julius, T.
name: Kato, E.
name: Kiesling, C.
name: Kim, B. H.
name: Kim, D. Y.
name: Kim, J. B.
name: Kim, J. H.
name: Kim, K. T.
name: Kim, M. J.
name: Kim, S. K.
name: Kim, Y. J.
name: Ko, B. R.
name: Kodyš, P.
name: Križan, P.
name: Krokovny, P.
name: Kuhr, T.
name: Kwon, Y. -J.
name: Lee, S. -H.
name: Li, J.
name: Libby, J.
name: Liventsev, D.
name: Lukin, P.
name: MacNaughton, J.
name: Matvienko, D.
name: Miyabayashi, K.
name: Miyata, H.
name: Mizuk, R.
name: Moll, A.
name: Mori, T.
name: Mussa, R.
name: Nakano, E.
name: Nakao, M.
name: Nakazawa, H.
name: Nayak, M.
name: Nedelkovska, E.
name: Nisar, N. K.
name: Nishida, S.
name: Nitoh, O.
name: Okuno, S.
name: Olsen, S. L.
name: Pakhlov, P.
name: Pakhlova, G.
name: Park, C. W.
name: Park, H.
name: Park, H. K.
name: Pedlar, T. K.
name: Petrič, M.
name: Piilonen, L. E.
name: Ritter, M.
name: Röhrken, M.
name: Rostomyan, A.
name: Sahoo, H.
name: Saito, T.
name: Sakai, Y.
name: Santelj, L.
name: Sanuki, T.
name: Savinov, V.
name: Schneider, O.
name: Schnell, G.
name: Schwanda, C.
name: Semmler, D.
name: Seon, O.
name: Shebalin, V.
name: Shen, C. P.
name: Shibata, T. -A.
name: Shiu, J. -G.
name: Shwartz, B.
name: Sibidanov, A.
name: Simon, F.
name: Sohn, Y. -S.
name: Sokolov, A.
name: Solovieva, E.
name: Stanič, S.
name: Starič, M.
name: Sumiyoshi, T.
name: Tamponi, U.
name: Tatishvili, G.
name: Teramoto, Y.
name: Uchida, M.
name: Uehara, S.
name: Unno, Y.
name: Uno, S.
name: Van Hulse, C.
name: Vanhoefer, P.
name: Varner, G.
name: Vinokurova, A.
name: Vorobyev, V.
name: Wagner, M. N.
name: Wang, C. H.
name: Wang, P.
name: Watanabe, M.
name: Watanabe, Y.
name: Won, E.
name: Yamashita, Y.
name: Yashchenko, S.
name: Yook, Y.
name: Yuan, C. Z.
name: Zhang, Z. P.
name: Zhilich, V.
name: Zhulanov, V.
name: Zupanc, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements of branching fractions of $τ$ lepton decays to final states with a $K^{0}_{S}$ meson using a 669 fb$^{-1}$ data sample accumulated with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider. The inclusive branching fraction is measured to be $\mathcal{B}(τ^{-} \to K^{0}_{S}\ X^{-} ν_τ)=(9.15 \pm 0.01 \pm 0.15) \times 10^{-3}$, where $X^{-}$ can be anything; the exclusive branching fractions are $\mathcal{B}(τ^{-} \to π^{-} K^{0}_{S} ν_τ) = (4.16 \pm 0.01 \pm 0.08) \times 10^{-3}$, $\mathcal{B}(τ^{-} \to K^{-} K^{0}_{S} ν_τ) = (7.40 \pm 0.07 \pm 0.27) \times 10^{-4}$, $\mathcal{B}(τ^{-} \to π^{-} K^{0}_{S} π^{0} ν_τ) = (1.93 \pm 0.02 \pm 0.07) \times 10^{-3}$, $\mathcal{B}(τ^{-} \to K^{-} K^{0}_{S} π^{0} ν_τ) = (7.48 \pm 0.10 \pm 0.37)\times 10^{-4}$, $\mathcal{B}(τ^{-} \to π^{-} K^{0}_{S} K^{0}_{S} ν_τ) = (2.33 \pm 0.03 \pm 0.09) \times 10^{-4}$, $\mathcal{B}(τ^{-} \to π^{-} K^{0}_{S} K^{0}_{S} π^{0} ν_τ) = (2.00 \pm 0.22 \pm 0.20) \times 10^{-5}$, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. For each mode, the accuracy is improved over that of pre-$B$-factory measurements by a factor ranging from five to ten. In $τ^{-} \to π^{-} K^0_S K^0_S π^{0} ν_τ$ decays, clear signals for the intermediate states $τ^{-} \to π^- f_{1}(1285)ν_τ$ and $τ^{-} \to K^{*-}K^{0}_{S} π^{0} ν_τ$ are observed.
description: 17 pages, 18 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D