Limits on τ lepton-flavor violating decays into three charged leptons

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

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DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.111101     Document Type: Article

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