%0 Journal Article
%@ 0031-9007
%A Ikado, K
%A Abe, K
%A Abe, K
%A Adachi, I
%A Aihara, H
%A Akai, K
%A Akemoto, M
%A Anipko, D
%A Arinstein, K
%A Aulchenko, V
%A Aushev, T
%A Aziz, T
%A Bakich, AM
%A Balagura, V
%A Barbero, M
%A Bay, A
%A Bedny, I
%A Belous, K
%A Bitenc, U
%A Bizjak, I
%A Bondar, A
%A Bozek, A
%A Bracko, M
%A Browder, TE
%A Chang, P
%A Chen, A
%A Chen, WT
%A Choi, Y
%A Cole, S
%A Dalseno, J
%A Danilov, M
%A Dash, M
%A Eidelman, S
%A Epifanov, D
%A Flanagan, J
%A Fratina, S
%A Furukawa, K
%A Gabyshev, N
%A Gershon, T
%A Go, A
%A Gokhroo, G
%A Golob, B
%A Gorisek, A
%A Ha, H
%A Haba, J
%A Hara, K
%A Hara, T
%A Hastings, NC
%A Hayasaka, K
%A Hayashii, H
%A Hazumi, M
%A Hinz, L
%A Hokuue, T
%A Hoshi, Y
%A Hou, S
%A Hou, WS
%A Iida, N
%A Iijima, T
%A Imoto, A
%A Inami, K
%A Ishikawa, A
%A Ishino, H
%A Itoh, R
%A Iwasaki, M
%A Iwasaki, Y
%A Kamitani, T
%A Kang, JH
%A Kataoka, SU
%A Katayama, N
%A Kawai, H
%A Kawasaki, T
%A Kichimi, H
%A Kikutani, E
%A Kim, HJ
%A Kim, HO
%A Kinoshita, K
%A Koiso, H
%A Korpar, S
%A Krizan, P
%A Krokovny, P
%A Kulasiri, R
%A Kumar, R
%A Kuo, CC
%A Kuzmin, A
%A Kwon, YJ
%A Lange, JS
%A Leder, G
%A Lee, J
%A Lesiak, T
%A Limosani, A
%A Lin, SW
%A Liventsev, D
%A Marlow, D
%A Matsumoto, T
%A Matyja, A
%A McOnie, S
%A Michizono, S
%A Mimashi, T
%A Mitaroff, W
%A Miyabayashi, K
%A Miyata, H
%A Miyazaki, Y
%A Mizuk, R
%A Nagamine, T
%A Nakamura, I
%A Nakamura, TT
%A Nakano, E
%A Nakao, M
%A Nishida, S
%A Nitoh, O
%A Noguchi, S
%A Nozaki, T
%A Ogawa, S
%A Ogawa, Y
%A Ohmi, K
%A Ohshima, T
%A Ohuchi, N
%A Oide, K
%A Okabe, T
%A Okuno, S
%A Olsen, SL
%A Onuki, Y
%A Ostrowicz, W
%A Ozaki, H
%A Pakhlov, P
%A Park, CW
%A Park, H
%A Pestotnik, R
%A Piilonen, LE
%A Poluektov, A
%A Rozanska, M
%A Sakai, Y
%A Schietinger, T
%A Schneider, O
%A Schwanda, C
%A Senyo, K
%A Sevior, ME
%A Shapkin, M
%A Shibuya, H
%A Shidara, T
%A Shwartz, B
%A Sidorov, V
%A Sokolov, A
%A Somov, A
%A Stanic, S
%A Staric, M
%A Stoeck, H
%A Sumisawa, K
%A Sumiyoshi, T
%A Suzuki, S
%A Tajima, O
%A Takasaki, F
%A Tamai, K
%A Tamura, N
%A Tanaka, M
%A Tawada, M
%A Taylor, GN
%A Teramoto, Y
%A Tian, XC
%A Trabelsi, K
%A Tsuboyama, T
%A Tsukamoto, T
%A Uehara, S
%A Uglov, T
%A Ueno, K
%A Unno, Y
%A Uno, S
%A Usov, Y
%A Varner, G
%A Villa, S
%A Wang, CC
%A Wang, CH
%A Watanabe, Y
%A Won, E
%A Yabsley, BD
%A Yamaguchi, A
%A Yamashita, Y
%A Yamauchi, M
%A Yoshida, M
%A Yusa, Y
%A Zhang, LM
%A Zhang, ZP
%A Zhilich, V
%A Zurcher, D
%A Belle Collaborat
%D 2006
%F discovery:1308528
%I AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
%J PHYS REV LETT
%K DETECTOR, PHYSICS
%N 25
%T Evidence of the purely leptonic decay B- -> tau(-)(v)over-bar(tau)
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1308528/
%V 97
%X We present the first evidence of the decay B-->tau(-)nu(tau), using 414 fb(-1) of data collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) collider. Events are tagged by fully reconstructing one of the B mesons in hadronic modes. We detect the signal with a significance of 3.5 standard deviations including systematics and measure the branching fraction to be B(B-->tau(-)nu(tau))=(1.79(-0.49)(+0.56)(stat)(-0.51)(+0.46)(syst))x10(-4). This implies that f(B)=0.229(-0.031)(+0.036)(stat)(-0.037)(+0.034)(syst) GeV and is the first direct measurement of this quantity.
%Z © 2006 The American Physical Society