A High Statistics Study of the Decay tau- -> pi- pi0 nu
arXiv:hep-ex/0512071 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2006.09.124
Abstract
We report a measurement of the branching fraction for tau- -> pi- pi0 nu and the invariant mass spectrum of the resulting pi- pi0 system using 72.2 /fb of data recorded by the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- collider. The branching fraction obtained is (25.15 +/- 0.04 +/- 0.31)%, where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. The unfolded pi- pi0 mass spectrum is used to determine resonance parameters for the rho(770), rho'(1450), and rho''(1700) mesons. We also use this spectrum to estimate the hadronic contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.
23 pages, 10 Postscript figures, 7 tables, contributed to the International Europhysics Conference, EPS2005, in Lisbon, Portugal
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