Electroweak Radiative Corrections to Semileptonic Tau Decays

Abstract

I present an update on the electroweak radiative correction factor to semileptonic tau decays, including a next-to-leading order resummation of large logarithms. My result differs both qualitatively and quantitatively from the one recently obtained by Davier et al. As two consequences, (i) the discrepancy between the predictions for the muon g-2 based on tau decay data and electron-positron annihilation data increases, and (ii) the g-2 prediction based on tau decay data appears to be consistent (within about one standard deviation) with the experimental result from BNL.

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