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Measurement of tau polarization in e+ e- annihilation at sqrt{s}=58 GeV

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

The polarization of tau leptons in the reaction e+ e- --> tau+ tau- has been measured using a e+e- collider, TRISTAN, at the center-of-mass energy of 58 GeV. From the kinematical distributions of daughter particles in tau --> e nu nu-bar, mu nu nu-bar, rho nu or pi(K) nu decays, the average polarization of tau- and its forward-backward asymmetry have been evaluated to be 0.012 +- 0.058 and 0.029 +- 0.057, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9703003,
  title  = {Measurement of tau polarization in e+ e- annihilation at sqrt{s}=58 GeV},
  author = {H. Hanai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9703003},
  year   = {2009}
}

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18 pages, 5 figures