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Isospin breaking corrections in production in tau decays and annihilation: consequences for the muon and CVC tests

arXiv:2411.07696 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.111.073004

Abstract

We revisit the isospin-breaking corrections relating the hadronic cross-section and the tau decay spectral function, focusing on the di-pion channel, that gives the dominant contribution to the hadronic vacuum polarization piece of the muon . We test different types of electromagnetic and weak form factors and show that both, the Gounaris-Sakurai and a dispersive-based approach, describe accurately lepton and data (less when KLOE measurements are included in the fits) and comply reasonably well with analyticity constraints. From these results we obtain the isospin-breaking contribution to the conserved vector current (CVC) prediction of the and to the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) contribution to the muon , in agreement with previous determinations and with similar precision. Our results abound in the convenience of using tau data-based results in the updated data-driven prediction of the muon in the Standard Model.

32 pages, 10 figures, 14 tables. Minor changes. Version accepted for publication in PRD

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