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Updated measurement of the tau lepton lifetime

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2012-08-27 v1

Abstract

A new measurement of the mean lifetime of the tau lepton is presented. Three different analysis methods are applied to a sample of 90000 tau pairs, collected in 1993 and 1994 with the ALEPH detector at LEP. The average of this measurement and those previously published by ALEPH is tau_tau = 290.1 +- 1.5 +- 1.1 fs.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9710026,
  title  = {Updated measurement of the tau lepton lifetime},
  author = {The ALEPH Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9710026},
  year   = {2012}
}

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17 pages, Latex; to be published in Physics Letters B