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Tau Polarimetry in B Meson Decays

by Rodrigo Alonso, Jorge Martin Camalich, Susanne Westhoff

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Susanne Westhoff
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Preprint Link: scipost_201811_00014v1  (pdf)
Date accepted: 2019-01-15
Date submitted: 2018-11-13 01:00
Submitted by: Westhoff, Susanne
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Proceedings
Proceedings issue: The 15th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (TAU2018)
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Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • High-Energy Physics - Theory
  • High-Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Approach: Theoretical

Abstract

This article summarizes recent developments in $B\to D^{(\ast)}\tau\nu$ decays. We explain how to extract the tau lepton's production properties from the kinematics of its decay products. The focus is on hadronic tau decays, which are most sensitive to the tau polarizations. We present new results for effects of new physics in tau polarization observables and quantify the observation prospects at BELLE II.

Published as SciPost Phys. Proc. 1, 012 (2019)


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Anonymous Report 1 on 2018-11-26 (Contributed Report)

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The writeup discusses recent theoretical studies to use tau polarimetry in B-meson decays as a tool to probe new physics. It is a valuable contribution to the proceedings.

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