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Pich, A. |
Title |
Precision tau physics |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2014 |
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Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. |
Volume |
75 |
Issue |
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Pages |
41-85 |
Keywords |
Electroweak and strong interactions; Leptons; Standard Model |
Abstract |
Precise measurements of the lepton properties provide stringent tests of the Standard Model and accurate determinations of its parameters. We overview the present status of tau physics, highlighting the most recent developments, and discuss the prospects for future improvements. The leptonic decays of the tau lepton probe the structure of the weak currents and the universality of their couplings to the W boson. The universality of the leptonic Z couplings has also been tested through Z -> l(+)l(-) decays. The hadronic tau decay modes constitute an ideal tool for studying low-energy effects of the strong interaction in very clean conditions. Accurate determinations of the QCD coupling and the Cabibbo mixing V-us have been obtained with tau data. The large mass of the tau opens the possibility to study many kinematically-allowed exclusive decay modes and extract relevant dynamical information. Violations of flavour and CP conservation laws can also be searched for with tau decays. Related subjects such as μdecays, the electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments, neutrino mixing and B-meson decays into tau leptons are briefly covered. Being one the fermions most strongly coupled to the scalar sector, the tau lepton is playing now a very important role at the LHC as a tool to test the Higgs properties and search for new physics at higher scales. |
Address |
Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, IFIC, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: pich@ific.uv.es |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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English |
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0146-6410 |
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WOS:000332350600002 |
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no |
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yes |
International Collaboration |
no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1716 |
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Author |
Alekhin, S. et al; Hernandez, P. |
Title |
A facility to search for hidden particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2016 |
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Reports on Progress in Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
Rep. Prog. Phys. |
Volume |
79 |
Issue |
12 |
Pages |
124201 - 137pp |
Keywords |
beyond the standard model physics; intensity frontier experiment; hidden sectors; heavy neutral leptons; dark photons |
Abstract |
This paper describes the physics case for a new fixed target facility at CERN SPS. The SHiP (search for hidden particles) experiment is intended to hunt for new physics in the largely unexplored domain of very weakly interacting particles with masses below the Fermi scale, inaccessible to the LHC experiments, and to study tau neutrino physics. The same proton beam setup can be used later to look for decays of tau-leptons with lepton flavour number non-conservation, tau -> 3 μand to search for weakly-interacting sub-GeV dark matter candidates. We discuss the evidence for physics beyond the standard model and describe interactions between new particles and four different portals-scalars, vectors, fermions or axion-like particles. We discuss motivations for different models, manifesting themselves via these interactions, and how they can be probed with the SHiP experiment and present several case studies. The prospects to search for relatively light SUSY and composite particles at SHiP are also discussed. We demonstrate that the SHiP experiment has a unique potential to discover new physics and can directly probe a number of solutions of beyond the standard model puzzles, such as neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry of the Universe, dark matter, and inflation. |
Address |
[Alekhin, Sergey] DESY, Platanenallee 6, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany, Email: oleg.ruchayskiy@cern.ch |
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Iop Publishing Ltd |
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0034-4885 |
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WOS:000387025400001 |
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no |
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yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
2852 |
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