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V-A hadronic tau decays : a laboratory for the QCD vacuum

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

ALEPH/OPAL data on the V-A spectral functions from hadronic tau decays are used in connection with a set of Laplace transform sum rules (LSR) for fixing the size of the QCD vacuum condensates up to dimension 18. Our results favour the ones from large-N_c QCD within the Minimal Hadronic Approximation (MHA) and show a violation of about a factor 2-5 of the vacuum saturation estimate of the dimension-six to -ten condensates. We scrutinize the different determinations of the QCD vacuum condensates using tau-decays data. After revisiting some of the existing results, we present coherent values of the condensates from different methods.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0412152,
  title  = {V-A hadronic tau decays : a laboratory for the QCD vacuum},
  author = {Stephan Narison},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0412152},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Version to appear in Phys. Lett. B