TAU POLARIZATION AND ITS CORRELATIONS AS A PROBE OF NEW PHYSICS

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BULLOCK, BK [1 ]
HAGIWARA, K [1 ]
MARTIN, AD [1 ]
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[1] KEK,THEORY GRP,TSUKUBA,IBARAKI 305,JAPAN
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10.1016/0550-3213(93)90045-Q
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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The measurement of the polarisation of the tau from the energy distributions of its decay products is studied for the various decay channels: tau --> taunu, rhonu, a1nu, lnunuBAR, and, in particular, the model dependence of the description of the tau --> (3pi)nu decay is examined. It is shown how this information may be used to identify charged and neutral Higgs bosons via H+/- --> tau+/-nu and H0 --> tau-tau+ decay channels. The effect of using various decay distributions and their correlations in the tau polarisation measurements in Z --> tau-tau+ is studied quantitatively. We show that a significant improvement is achieved even if p+/- --> pi+/-pi0 cannot be distinguished from a1 --> pi+/-pi0pi0. Also tau polarisation measurements from the decays of possible new W or Z bosons at hadron colliders are discussed.
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