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The most general angular distribution of two or three meson final states from semileptonic decays $\tau\rightarrow \pi\pi\nu$, $K\pi\nu$, $\pi\pi\pi\nu$, $K\pi\pi\nu$, $K\pi\nu$, $KKK\nu$, $\eta\pi\pi\nu,\,\ldots{}$ of polarized $\tau$…
Recent experimental data on tau decays are used to reconstruct the difference in hadronic spectral densities with vector and axial-vector quantum numbers. The saturation of Das-Mathur-Okubo and Weinberg sum rules is studied. Two methods of…
Recent results of a high-statistics study of tau lepton properties and decays at B factories are reviewed. We discuss measurements of tau lifetime, branching fractions, and spectral functions for several hadronic tau decay modes with…
We show that a single $I=1$ spin-parity $J^{PC}= 1^{++}$ $a_1$ resonance can manifest itself as two separated mass peaks, one decaying into an S-wave $\rho\pi$ system and the second decaying into a P-wave $f_0(980)\pi$ system, with a rapid…
We study the effects of non-vanishing pseudoscalar masses in $\tau$ decays into three mesons. The hadronic matrix elements are obtained by using the generalized structure of the chiral currents with nonvanishing pseudoscalar masses and…
We study the disintegration $\tau^- \to \pi^-\ell^+\ell^-\nu_\tau$, where $l$ denotes either an electron or a muon. This process requires knowledge about the $W^*\gamma^*\pi$ interaction, which is modeled using Resonance Chiral Theory.…
Sufficiently inclusive observables in the decay of the tau lepton can be calculated using the methods of perturbative QCD. These include the asymmetry parameter $A_\tau$ that determines that angular distribution of the total hadron momentum…
Motivated by the recent investigation of neutrinoless $\tau$-lepton decays by the CLEO collaboration, we perform a systematic analysis of such decays in a possible new-physics scenario with heavy Dirac/Majorana neutrinos, including…
A preliminary measurement of the branching fraction of the tau- -> 3h-2h+nu decay (h= pi, K$) with the BaBar detector is found to be {8.52 +/- 0.09 +/- 0.40} x 10E-4, where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. The…
The possibility of detecting the S-wave of the decays tau -> 3 pi + nu(tau) in the threshold region is explored, with emphasis on the sensitivity to the size of the quark antiquark condensate <qq>.
Vacuum polarization integrals involve the vector spectral functions which can be experimentally determined from two sources: (i) e+e- annihilation cross sections and (ii) hadronic tau decays. Recently results with comparable precision have…
We develop a theory of the EPR-like effects due to neutrino oscillations in the $\pi \to \mu\nu$ decays. Its experimental implications are space-time correlations of neutrino and muon when they are both detected, while the pion decay point…
Low energy QCD (below 2 GeV) is a region of resonance dynamics, sometimes lacking satisfactory description as compared to precision of available experimental data. Hadronic $\tau$ decays offer a probe for such energy regime. In general,…
For purely leptonic decays of pseudoscalar mesons, the decay rates are related to the product of the relevant weak interaction-based CKM matrix element of the constituent quarks on the one hand, and the strong interaction parameter, the…
We describe the spectra and decays of pi pi and pi K atoms within a non-relativistic effective field theory. The evaluations of the energy shifts and widths are performed at next-to-leading order in isospin symmetry breaking. We provide…
We study the process $\gamma\gamma\to\pi^0\pi^0$ involving the principle mechanisms, the structure of its cross section and the role of individual isoscalar-tensor resonances in the saturation of its energy spectrum.
We propose to measure the Wess-Zumino anomaly contribution by considering angular distributions in the decays $\tau\to\nu_\tau \eta\pi^{-}\pi^{0}$, $\tau\to\nu_\tau K^- \pi^{-} K^+ $ and $\tau\to\nu_\tau K^- \pi^- \pi^+$. Radial excitations…
Tau lepton decays with open strangeness in the final state are measured with the OPAL detector at LEP to determine the strange hadronic spectral function of the tau lepton. The decays T- ->(Kpi)-nu tau, (Kpipi)-nu tau and (Kpipipi) -nu tau…
The most general amplitude for the radiative pion decay pi -> e nu gamma including terms beyond V-A theory is considered. The experimental constraints on the decay amplitude components are discussed. A model independent presentation of the…
We review current issues in exclusive semileptonic tau decays. We present the formalism of structure functions, and then discuss predictions for final states with kaons, for decays into four pions and for radiative corrections to the decay…