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arxiv: 2108.11543 · v3 · pith:BM2UUL4Qnew · submitted 2021-08-26 · ✦ hep-ex

An improved search for the electric dipole moment of the τ lepton

K. Inami , K. Hayasaka , I. Adachi , H. Aihara , S. Al Said , D. M. Asner , V. Aulchenko , T. Aushev
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We report a measurement of the electric dipole moment of the $\tau$ lepton ($d_\tau$) using an 833~fb$^{-1}$ data sample collected near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance, with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^+ e^-$ collider. Using an optimal observable method, we obtain the real and imaginary parts of $d_\tau$ as ${\rm Re}(d_\tau) = ( -0.62 \pm 0.63 ) \times 10^{-17} ~e{\rm cm}$ and ${\rm Im}(d_\tau) = ( -0.40 \pm 0.32 ) \times 10^{-17} ~e{\rm cm}$, respectively. These results are consistent with null electric dipole moment at the present level of experimental sensitivity and improve the sensitivity by about a factor of three.

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