Tau Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-04-15 v1
Abstract
The pure leptonic or semileptonic character of tau decays makes them a good laboratory to test the structure of the weak currents and the universality of their couplings to the gauge bosons. The hadronic decay modes constitute an ideal tool for studying low--energy effects of the strong interactions in very clean conditions. New physics phenomena, such as a non-zero or violations of conservation laws can also be searched for with tau decays. The present experimental and theoretical status of tau physics is summarized.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9912294,
title = {Tau Physics},
author = {A. Pich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9912294},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
16 pages, 8 figures. Invited talk at the XIX International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies (Stanford, August 1999)