TAU2014 Opening Talk

Abstract

Different aspects of Tau physics are discussed, both as a New Physics probe and as a tool to study Standard Model physics. The goal of this Tau2014 opening talk is to introduce (some of) the many research directions currently being pursued with tau leptons, which will be discussed in great technical detail in the following talks.

Written version of the Opening Talk at the 13th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (TAU2014), Sept 2014, Aachen, Germany

References in corpus (10)

• Hadronic Z- and tau-Decays in Order alpha_s^4
• Implications of lepton flavor universality violations in B decays
• Search for the lepton flavor violating decay $Z\to e\mu$ in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Unraveling duality violations in hadronic tau decays
• Modified Contour-Improved Perturbation Theory
• On the determination of alpha_s from hadronic tau decays with contour-improved, fixed order and renormalon-chain perturbation theory
• A Combined NNLO Lattice-Continuum Determination of $L_{10}^r$
• A Mixed Tau-Electroproduction Sum Rule for V_us
• A note on renormalon models for the determination of alpha_s(M_tau)
• Light Charged Higgs and Lepton Universality in W boson Decays