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Isospin-breaking effects in inclusive hadronic $τ$ data for the muon $(g-2)$ from first principles

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2026-07-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The knowledge of isospin-breaking effects in hadronic τ\tau decays is required for a high-precision determination of the Hadronic-Vacuum-Polarization contribution to (g2)μ(g-2)_\mu from experimental τ\tau data. In this work we present a strategy for their calculation in a fully inclusive setup from first-principles Lattice QCD+QED simulations. We separate radiative corrections in three infrared safe classes, which we study individually. We provide analytic expressions for their effects in the initial state and propose a strategy for final-state corrections directly in Euclidean space. We also examine the non-factorizable contributions and highlight the challenges associated with their analytic continuation from Euclidean to Minkowski space. By studying short-distance corrections in the context of momentum schemes, we provide a prescription for the renormalization of the individual terms at first order in the ispospin-breaking parameters.

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@article{arxiv.2607.00564,
  title  = {Isospin-breaking effects in inclusive hadronic $τ$ data for the muon $(g-2)$ from first principles},
  author = {Mattia Bruno and Taku Izubuchi and Christoph Lehner and Aaron S. Meyer and Julian Parrino and Xin-Yu Tuo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.00564},
  year   = {2026}
}

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42 pages, 12 figures