@article{47f154412cba4e76826d415de0523ee0,
title = "An upper limit on the branching ratio for τ decays into seven charged particles",
abstract = "We have searched for decays of the τ lepton into seven or more charged particles, using data collected with the OPAL detector from 1990 to 1995 in e+e- collisions at √s ≈ Mz. No candidate events were found and an upper limit on the branching ratio for T decays into seven charged particles of 1.8 × 10-5 at the 95% confidence level was determined.",
author = "{The OPAL Collaboration} and K. Ackerstaff and G. Alexander and J. Allison and N. Altekamp and Anderson, {K. J.} and S. Anderson and S. Arcelli and S. Asai and D. Axen and G. Azuelos and Ball, {A. H.} and E. Barberio and Barlow, {R. J.} and R. Bartoldus and Batley, {J. R.} and S. Baumann and J. Bechtluft and C. Beeston and T. Behnke and Bell, {A. N.} and Bell, {K. W.} and G. Bella and S. Bentvelsen and P. Berlich and S. Bethke and O. Biebel and A. Biguzzi and Bird, {S. D.} and V. Blobel and Bloodworth, {I. J.} and Bloomer, {J. E.} and M. Bobinski and P. Bock and D. Bonacorsi and M. Boutemeur and Bouwens, {B. T.} and S. Braibant and L. Brigliadori and Brown, {R. M.} and Burckhart, {H. J.} and C. Burgard and R. B{\"u}rgin and P. Capiluppi and Carnegie, {R. K.} and Carter, {A. A.} and Carter, {J. R.} and Chang, {C. Y.} and Charlton, {D. G.} and D. Chrisman and R. Folman",
note = "Funding Information: (GIF), Direction des Sciences de la Mati~re du Commissariat l'Energie Atomique, France, Bundesministerium fiir Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Germany, National Research Council of Canada, Hungarian Foundation for Scientific Research, OTKA T-016660, T023793 and OTKA F-023259. Funding Information: We particularly wish to thank the SL Division for the efficient operation of the LEP accelerator and for their continuing close cooperation with our experimental group. We thank our colleagues from CEA, DAPNIA/SPP, CE-Saclay for their efforts over the years on the time-of-flight and trigger systems which we continue to use. In addition to the support staff at our own institutions we are pleased to acknowledge the Department of Energy, USA, National Science Foundation, USA, Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, UK, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada, Israel Science Foundation, administered by the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, Minerva Gesellschaft, Benoziyo Center for High Energy Physics, Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (the Monbusho) and a grant under the Monbusho International Science Research Program, German Israeli Bi-national Science Foundation",
year = "1997",
month = jul,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00648-5",
language = "English",
volume = "404",
pages = "213--222",
journal = "Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics",
issn = "0370-2693",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "1-2",
}