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.

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

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• Averages of $b$-hadron, $c$-hadron, and $\tau$-lepton properties as of summer 2016
• Evidence for an excess of B -> D(*) Tau Nu decays
• Hadronic Z- and tau-Decays in Order alpha_s^4
• Implications of lepton flavor universality violations in B decays
• Semileptonic decays of light quarks beyond the Standard Model
• Flavour-Changing Decays of a 125 GeV Higgs-like Particle
• Observation of B+ -> Dbar*0 tau+ nu_tau and Evidence for B+ -> Dbar^0 tau+ nu_tau at Belle
• 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
• Perturbative expansion of tau hadronic spectral function moments and alpha_s extractions
• Determination of the Chiral Couplings L_10 and C_87 from Semileptonic Tau Decays
• $\bar{B}\to D\tau {\bar{\nu }}_{\tau }$ vs. $\bar{B}\to D\mu {\bar{\nu }}_{\mu }$
• The $h\to 4\ell$ spectrum at low $m_{34}$: Standard Model vs. light New Physics
• Measurement of the $\tau$-lepton lifetime at Belle
• Modified Contour-Improved Perturbation Theory
• Expansions of $\tau$ hadronic spectral function moments in a nonpower QCD perturbation theory with tamed large order behavior
• Low-energy constants and condensates from the tau hadronic spectral functions
• Confronting electron-positron annihilation into hadrons with QCD: an operator product expansion analysis
• On the determination of alpha_s from hadronic tau decays with contour-improved, fixed order and renormalon-chain perturbation theory
• A Mixed Tau-Electroproduction Sum Rule for V_us
• A Combined NNLO Lattice-Continuum Determination of $L_{10}^r$
• NNLO low-energy constants from flavor-breaking chiral sum rules based on hadronic tau-decay data
• Light Charged Higgs and Lepton Universality in W boson Decays
• A note on renormalon models for the determination of alpha_s(M_tau)
• Hadronic Contribution to the muon $g-2$ factor