MLL-Kolloquium: Prof. Antonio Pich (IFIC Valencia/Spain, z.Z. Gast am 'Universe'-Cluster): Recent Progress on Tau-Lepton Physics

Thursday 10 Nov 2011, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Berlin

LMU Building, Am Coulombwall 1, Garching, Lecture Hall (ground floor)

The large tau data samples collected at the B Factories provide precise tests of the electroweak and strong interactions. The present status of some selected topics on tau physics will be presented, such as charged-current universality tests, bounds on lepton-flavour violation, the determination of alpha_s from the inclusive tau hadronic width and the measurement of V_us through the Cabibbo-suppressed decays of the tau. The spectral distribution of the final hadrons in the tau decay contains also important information on non-perturbative QCD aspects, with implications for the Standard Model prediction of the muon anomalous magnetic moment (g-2). An updated discussion of these subjects will be given.

Abstract kolloquium-10-11-11.pdf