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V_us and m_s from hadronic tau decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

Recent experimental results on hadronic tau decays into strange particles by the OPAL collaboration are employed to determine V_us and m_s from moments of the invariant mass distribution. Our results are V_us = 0.2208+-0.0034 and m_s(2 GeV) = 81+-22 MeV. The error on V_us is dominated by experiment, and should be improvable in the future. Nevertheless, already now our result is competitive to the standard extraction of V_us from K_e3 decays, and it is compatible with unitarity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0408044,
  title  = {V_us and m_s from hadronic tau decays},
  author = {E. Gamiz and M. Jamin and A. Pich and J. Prades and F. Schwab},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0408044},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure