{"id":32256,"date":"2026-01-21T17:01:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/publication\/evidence-for-b-rightarrow-d0tau-overlinenu_tau-decays\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:18:55","slug":"evidence-for-b-rightarrow-d0tau-overlinenu_tau-decays","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/publication\/evidence-for-b-rightarrow-d0tau-overlinenu_tau-decays\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence for $B^-\\rightarrow D^{**0}\\tau^-\\overline{\\nu_\\tau}$ decays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first evidence for the decay $B^-\\rightarrow D^{**0}\\tau^-\\overline{\\nu_\\tau}$ is obtained using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $9  fb^ {-1}$, at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 Tev. Here, the $D^{**0}$ meson represents any of the three excited charm mesons $D_{1}(2420)^{0}$, $D_{1}(2420)^{0}$, and $D_{1}^{&#8218;}(2400)^{0}$. The $B^-\\rightarrow D^{**0}\\tau^-\\overline{\\nu_{\\tau}}$ signal is measured with a significance of  $3.5\\,\\sigma$, including systematic uncertainties. <\/p>\n<p> The combined branching fraction <\/p>\n<p> $BR(B^-\\rightarrow D^{**0}_{1,2}\\tau^-\\overline{\\nu_{\\tau}})\\times BR(D^{**0}_{1,2}\\rightarrow D^{*+}\\pi^-)$, where $D^{**0}_{1,2}$ denotes both $D_{1}(2420)^{0}$ and $D_{1}(2420)^{0}$ contributions, is measured to be<\/p>\n<p>$(0.051\\pm0.013(stat)\\pm 0.006(syst)\\pm 0.009(\\rm{ext}) )\\%$, where the last uncertainty reflects that of the  branching fraction of the normalisation channel $B^-\\rightarrow D^{**0}_{1,2}D_s^{(*)-}$. <\/p>\n<p> The ratio  between the tauonic and muonic semileptonic B decays, with the latter taken from world average values, is also determined and found to be ${\\cal R}(D^{**0}_{1,2})=0.13\\pm0.03(stat)\\pm0.01(syst)\\pm0.02\\,(\\rm{ext})$.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first evidence for the decay $B^-\\rightarrow D^{**0}\\tau^-\\overline{\\nu_\\tau}$ is obtained using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $9 fb^ {-1}$, at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 Tev. Here, the $D^{**0}$ meson represents any of the three excited charm mesons $D_{1}(2420)^{0}$, $D_{1}(2420)^{0}$, and $D_{1}^{&#8218;}(2400)^{0}$. The $B^-\\rightarrow D^{**0}\\tau^-\\overline{\\nu_{\\tau}}$ signal is measured with a significance of $3.5\\,\\sigma$, including systematic uncertainties. The combined branching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication-type":[30],"class_list":["post-32256","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","publication-type-article"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/32256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/32256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-type?post=32256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}