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Title: Novel | V u s | Determination Using Inclusive Strange τ Decay and Lattice Hadronic Vacuum Polarization Functions

Abstract

We propose and apply a new approach to determining |Vus| using dispersion relations with weight functions having poles at Euclidean (spacelike) momentum which relate strange hadronic τ decay distributions to hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) functions obtained from lattice quantum chromodynamics. We show examples where spectral integral contributions from the region where experimental data have large errors or do not exist are strongly suppressed but accurate determinations of the relevant lattice HVP combinations remain possible. The resulting |Vus| agrees well with determinations from K physics and three-family Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity. Finally, advantages of this new approach over the conventional hadronic τ decay determination employing flavor-breaking sum rules are also discussed.

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Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Org.:
RBC and UKQCD Collaborations
OSTI Identifier:
1482416
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1485774
Report Number(s):
BNL-209737-2018-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; 202003
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 121 Journal Issue: 20; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; HVP; lattice; QCD; Tau; OPE; hadronic; Vus; EFT; polarization; UKQCD; RBC; CKM; electroweak

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Boyle, Peter, Hudspith, Renwick James, Izubuchi, Taku, Jüttner, Andreas, Lehner, Christoph, Lewis, Randy, Maltman, Kim, Ohki, Hiroshi, Portelli, Antonin, Spraggs, Matthew, and RBC and UKQCD Collaborations. Novel | V u s | Determination Using Inclusive Strange τ Decay and Lattice Hadronic Vacuum Polarization Functions. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.202003.
Boyle, Peter, Hudspith, Renwick James, Izubuchi, Taku, Jüttner, Andreas, Lehner, Christoph, Lewis, Randy, Maltman, Kim, Ohki, Hiroshi, Portelli, Antonin, Spraggs, Matthew, & RBC and UKQCD Collaborations. Novel | V u s | Determination Using Inclusive Strange τ Decay and Lattice Hadronic Vacuum Polarization Functions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.202003
Boyle, Peter, Hudspith, Renwick James, Izubuchi, Taku, Jüttner, Andreas, Lehner, Christoph, Lewis, Randy, Maltman, Kim, Ohki, Hiroshi, Portelli, Antonin, Spraggs, Matthew, and RBC and UKQCD Collaborations. Fri . "Novel | V u s | Determination Using Inclusive Strange τ Decay and Lattice Hadronic Vacuum Polarization Functions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.202003.
@article{osti_1482416,
title = {Novel | V u s | Determination Using Inclusive Strange τ Decay and Lattice Hadronic Vacuum Polarization Functions},
author = {Boyle, Peter and Hudspith, Renwick James and Izubuchi, Taku and Jüttner, Andreas and Lehner, Christoph and Lewis, Randy and Maltman, Kim and Ohki, Hiroshi and Portelli, Antonin and Spraggs, Matthew and RBC and UKQCD Collaborations},
abstractNote = {We propose and apply a new approach to determining |Vus| using dispersion relations with weight functions having poles at Euclidean (spacelike) momentum which relate strange hadronic τ decay distributions to hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) functions obtained from lattice quantum chromodynamics. We show examples where spectral integral contributions from the region where experimental data have large errors or do not exist are strongly suppressed but accurate determinations of the relevant lattice HVP combinations remain possible. The resulting |Vus| agrees well with determinations from K physics and three-family Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity. Finally, advantages of this new approach over the conventional hadronic τ decay determination employing flavor-breaking sum rules are also discussed.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.202003},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 20,
volume = 121,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Nov 16 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Fri Nov 16 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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