Confronting Spectral Functions from e+e- Annihilation and tau Decays: Consequences for the Muon Magnetic Moment

Details Confronting Spectral Functions from e+e- Annihilation and tau Decays: Consequences for the Muon Magnetic Moment Confronting Spectral Functions from e+e- Annihilation and tau Decays: Consequences for the Muon Magnetic Moment

2003-01-15

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0301104v1

eConf C0209101 (2002) WE10

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Invited talk at the Seventh International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (TAU02), Santa Cruz, CA, USA, Sept 2002, 17 pages, La

Scientific paper

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 become available from CMD-2 on one side, and ALEPH, CLEO and OPAL on the other. The comparison of the respective spectral functions involves a correction from isospin-breaking effects, which is evaluated. After the correction it is found that the dominant pi+pi- spectral functions do not agree within experimental and theoretical uncertainties. Some disagreement is also found for the 4pi spectral functions. The consequences of these discrepancies for vacuum polarization calculations are presented, with the emphasis on the muon anomalous magnetic moment. Adding quadratically experimental and theoretical uncertainties, we find that the full Standard Model prediction of a_mu deviates from the recent BNL measurement at the level of 3.0 (e+e--based) and 0.9 (tau-based) standard deviations.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Confronting Spectral Functions from e+e- Annihilation and tau Decays: Consequences for the Muon Magnetic Moment does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Confronting Spectral Functions from e+e- Annihilation and tau Decays: Consequences for the Muon Magnetic Moment, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Confronting Spectral Functions from e+e- Annihilation and tau Decays: Consequences for the Muon Magnetic Moment will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-497916