Calculation of exclusive decay modes of the tau
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 31 (5), 1066-1073
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.31.1066
Abstract
We update the calculation of the decays of the τ lepton into various modes using recent data on electron-positron annihilation into hadrons plus bounds that follow from isotopic-spin conservation. Comparison is made with exclusive branching-ratio data and inclusive charged-prong-distribution measurements in τ decays, and the difficulty in accounting for all the one-charged-prong decays as a sum of exclusive decay modes is discussed.Keywords
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