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We perform a global analysis of exclusive hadronic tau decays into one and two mesons using the low-energy limit of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory up to dimension six, assuming left-handed neutrinos. A controlled theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-24 Sergi Gonzàlez-Solís , Alejandro Miranda , Javier Rendón , Pablo Roig

Tau leptons play a crucial role in studies of the Higgs boson and searches for Beyond the Standard Model physics at the present LHC and in its high luminosity upgrade. This talk presents the latest advancements in the reconstruction and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-09 Andrea Cardini

Rare and very rare decays of third-generation particles, including $b$-hadrons and $\tau$ leptons, provide sensitive probes of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Unlike direct searches limited by collider energies, they probe new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-17 Hanae Tilquin

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 Amon Ilakovac , Bernd A. Kniehl , Apostolos Pilaftsis

We construct new tests of perturbative QCD by considering a hypothetical tau lepton of arbitrary mass, which decays hadronically through the electromagnetic current. We can explicitly compute its hadronic width ratio directly as an integral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 S. J. Brodsky , J. R. Pelaez , N. Toumbas

In this talk I discuss the role of heavy quarks in new physics searches with tau leptons. I focus on new physics effects associated to the scalar sector which are naturally enhanced for the heaviest fermions due to the large hierarchy of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-30 Alejandro Celis

Many models for physics beyond the Standard Model predict lepton-flavour violating decays of charged leptons at a level which may become observable very soon. We investigate the decays of a Tau-lepton into three charged leptons (Tau ->…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 Sascha Turczyk

Hadronic decays rates of the $\tau$ lepton into multi meson final states are presented. The structure of the hadronic matrix elements for various decay modes is discussed. The formalism of structure functions allows for a detailed test of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Markus Finkemeier , Erwin Mirkes

We first study the hadronic lepton flavor violating tau decays within the littlest Higgs model with T-parity (including one or two pseudoscalars, or a vector resonance). We consider the case where only T-odd particles and partner fermions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-22 Iván Pacheco , Pablo Roig

Recent theoretical results in tau lepton physics and their implications for the experimental analysis are presented. The paper is split into the following chapters: 1. Introduction, 2. Weak Couplings, 3. Inclusive Decays, Perturbative QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. H. Kuehn

Electron neutrino has been the first neutral lepton to be foreseen and discovered last century. The un-ordered muon and its neutrino arose later by cosmic rays. The tau discover, the heaviest, the most unstable charged lepton, was found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-13 D. Fargion , D. D'Armiento , P. G. Lucentini De Sanctis

Top quark pair decay events resulting in final states containing {\tau} leptons present interesting channels in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. This document describes the in-progress analyses of two channels, {\tau}+jets…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-09-28 Allison McCarn

We report results of a search for tau lepton decays strongly suppressed in the Standard Model based on the world-largest data sample accumulated with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. The decays include: lepton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 K. Hayasaka

The study of the $\tau$-lepton decays into hadrons has contributed to a better understanding of non-perturbative QCD and light-quark meson spectroscopy, as well as to the search of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The two- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-01 Olga Shekhovtsova

$\tau$ is playing an important role in the current B-physics indications from experiments of lepton flavor universality violations(LFUV). This suggests it be given increasing attention theoretically in the coming years, given also the fact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-14 Amarjit Soni

Inspired by the relation between the hadronic decay of the tau lepton and the electron-positron annihilation into hadrons, we derive new tests of perturbative QCD. We design a set of commensurate scale relations to test the self-consistency…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. R. Pelaez , S. J. Brodsky , N. Toumbas

Some important aspects of hadronic tau decays are reviewed: the determination of alpha_s from the inclusive tau hadronic width, the measurement of |V_{us}| through the Cabibbo-suppressed decays of the tau, and the theoretical description of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Pich

The tau is the only known lepton that can decay hadronically. From this class of decays, high precision measurements of several quantities can be extracted: the CKM matrix element $V_{us}$, the mass of the strange quark, etc. Also, as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-15 A. Moyotl

This Fifth International WEIN Symposium is devoted to physics beyond the standard model. This talk is about tau lepton physics, but I begin with the question: do we know how to find new physics in the world of elementary particles? This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. L. Perl

A search for the lepton-flavor-violating decay of the tau into one charged lepton and two charged hadrons has been performed using $221.4 \mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of data collected at an $e^+e^-$ center-of-mass energy around 10.58 GeV with the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 The BABAR Collaboration , B. Aubert