Heavy Quarks & Leptons

Vus from tau

11 Oct 2010, 16:45

25m

Auditorium B. Touschek - Chair: Marta Calvi (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati <!-- ID_UTENTE=503 -->)

oral CKM Physics CKM Physics

Speaker

Ian Nugent (Univ. Victoria / TRIUMF)

Description

Hadronic Tau decays provide a unique opportunity to probe the coupling of the weak current to the first and second generations of quarks to an unprecedented precision. Recent results from Belle and BaBar extracting the CKM matrix element |Vus| will be presented.

Presentation materials

Paper

HQLC_2010.pdf