The full LEP-1 data set collected with the ALEPH detector at the Z pole during1991–1995 is analysed in order to measure the tau decay branchingfractions. The analysis follows the global method used in the published study based on 1991–1993 data, but several improvements are introduced, especially concerningthe treatment of photons and pi0’s. Extensive systematic studies are performed, in order to match the large statistics of the data sample corresponding to over 300 000 measured and identified tau decays. Branchingvfractions are obtained for the two leptonic channels and 11 hadronic channels defined by their respective numbers of charged particles and pi0’s. Using pre viously published ALEPH results on final states with charged and neutral kaons, corrections are applied to the hadronic channels to derive branchingratios for exclusive final states without kaons. Thus the analyses of the full LEP-1 ALEPH data are combined to yield a complete description of decays, encompassing 22 non-strange and 11 strange hadronic modes. Some physics implications of the results are given, in particular related to universality in the leptonic charged weak current, isospin invariance in a1 decays, and the separation of vector and axial-vector components of the total hadronic rate. Finally, spectral functions are determined for the dominant hadronic modes and updates are given for several analyses. These include: tests of isospin invariance between the weak charged and electromagnetic hadronic currents, fits of the rho resonance lineshape, and a QCD analysis of the non-strange hadronic decays usingspectral moments, yielding the value alpha s(m2tau )=0.340±0.005 exp ±0.014 th. The evolution to the Z mass scale yields alpha s(M2Z) = 0.1209 ± 0.0018. This value agrees well with the direct determination from the Z width and provides the most accurate test to date of asymptotic freedom in the QCD gauge theory.

Branching ratios and spectral functions of tau decays: Final ALEPH measurements and physics implications.

GIANNINI, GIANROSSANO;
2005-01-01

Abstract

The full LEP-1 data set collected with the ALEPH detector at the Z pole during1991–1995 is analysed in order to measure the tau decay branchingfractions. The analysis follows the global method used in the published study based on 1991–1993 data, but several improvements are introduced, especially concerningthe treatment of photons and pi0’s. Extensive systematic studies are performed, in order to match the large statistics of the data sample corresponding to over 300 000 measured and identified tau decays. Branchingvfractions are obtained for the two leptonic channels and 11 hadronic channels defined by their respective numbers of charged particles and pi0’s. Using pre viously published ALEPH results on final states with charged and neutral kaons, corrections are applied to the hadronic channels to derive branchingratios for exclusive final states without kaons. Thus the analyses of the full LEP-1 ALEPH data are combined to yield a complete description of decays, encompassing 22 non-strange and 11 strange hadronic modes. Some physics implications of the results are given, in particular related to universality in the leptonic charged weak current, isospin invariance in a1 decays, and the separation of vector and axial-vector components of the total hadronic rate. Finally, spectral functions are determined for the dominant hadronic modes and updates are given for several analyses. These include: tests of isospin invariance between the weak charged and electromagnetic hadronic currents, fits of the rho resonance lineshape, and a QCD analysis of the non-strange hadronic decays usingspectral moments, yielding the value alpha s(m2tau )=0.340±0.005 exp ±0.014 th. The evolution to the Z mass scale yields alpha s(M2Z) = 0.1209 ± 0.0018. This value agrees well with the direct determination from the Z width and provides the most accurate test to date of asymptotic freedom in the QCD gauge theory.
2005
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370157305003340
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