Summary on tau Leptonic Branching Ratios and Universality

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1998-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9811048v1

Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 76 (1999) 123-132

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

10 pages, LaTeX, including 9 figures, uses epsf and espcrc2. Invited talk at the Fifth Intl. Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics, 1

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0920-5632(99)00439-9

The large samples of tau decays available from CLEO and the four LEP experiment have resulted in new, precise measurements of the leptonic branching ratios of the $\tau$. The experimental techniques to obtain these results are reviewed with special emphasis on the DELPHI measurement. World averages are found to be Be = (17.81 +/- 0.06) % and Bmu = (17.36 +/- 0.06) %. These results are consistent with universality in the charged current couplings to a precision of about 0.25 %. The branching ratio measurements can also be used to constrain the "low energy parameter" eta. It is shown that the sensitivity to eta depends on details of the momentum acceptance for muon identification in the different experiments. Assuming universality in the couplings, the estimate eta = 0.012 +/- 0.024 is obtained.

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