1. Updated measurement of the τ lifetime
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R. Van Kooten, D. Pitman, M. H. Lehto, E. Lefebvre, S. L. Chu, T. G. Shears, F. Odorici, F. Liu, Margret Fincke-Keeler, D. M. Gingrich, G. Giacomelli, B. C. Shen, P. Schenk, P. Berlich, Siegfried Bethke, T. Hilse, A. K. Honma, B. Nijjhar, W. G. Scott, H. M. Fischer, M. S. Dixit, O. Runolfsson, J. Mildenberger, Gideon Bella, Frans Meijers, H. J. Burckhart, Gordon H. Hanson, Jacqueline Batley, C. M. Hawkes, Daniel Lellouch, A. Michelini, C. Beeston, M. Fanti, James Pinfold, Claudio Grandi, R. D. Heuer, M. J. Losty, Fabrizio Fabbri, P. Pfister, D. Van den plas, D. R. Rust, Takehiko Mori, P. Igo-Kemenes, F. S. Merritt, M. Yurko, D. G. Fong, M. W. Redmond, A. M. Lee, G. Beaudoin, J. Gascon, W. R. Gibson, H. Jeremie, H. von der Schmitt, P. W. Jeffreys, S. W. O'Neale, P. E.L. Clarke, U. C. Dunwoody, M. K. Jones, Xinchou Lou, S. A. Robins, H. Mes, R. E. Hughes-Jones, U. Maur, J. Steuerer, R.J. Akers, I. P. Duerdoth, A. Beck, E. Heflin, K. J. Anderson, J. P. Martin, J. W. Gary, M. J. Oreglia, Matthias Schröder, R. M. Brown, A. Höcker, Lorne Levinson, R. Lahmann, Silvia Arcelli, P. D. Phillips, J. A. McKenna, Tohru Takeshita, D. C. Imrie, P. Bright-Thomas, B. Stockhausen, Paul Kyberd, F. K. Loebinger, S. De Jong, Marcello Mannelli, J. E. Duboscq, Shlomo Dado, Sachio Komamiya, P. Poffenberger, E. do Couto e Silva, Georges Azuelos, Barry King, Peter Fischer, J. J. Ward, P. Scharff-Hansen, E. Barberio, Theodoros Geralis, D. A. Hinshaw, D. E. Plane, O. Schaile, K. W. Bell, E. Ros, A. T. Watson, Erez Etzion, G. P. Siroli, J. King, P. Schütz, M. A. Thomson, J. C. Hill, I. J. Bloodworth, P. Bentkowski, R. Bartoldus, C. Moisan, G. A. Beck, Marco Cuffiani, A. M. Smith, Christoph Schwick, G. M. Dallavalle, Achim Stahl, J. R. Carter, H. O. Ogren, Christoph Geich-Gimbel, Misao Sasaki, Stefan Kluth, Shlomit Tarem, G. N. Patrick, P. Teixeira-Dias, P. Le Du, B. Fabbro, M. Settles, G. Vasseur, B. Lorazo, Otmar Biebel, R. Giacomelli, T. Behnke, S. Rossberg, C. J. Oram, D. G. Charlton, D. L. Wagner, Kiyotomo Kawagoe, T. P. Kokott, A. Luig, Andris Skuja, Yoram Rozen, J. G. Layter, M. Foucher, Stephen Lloyd, G. D. Long, C. Y. Chang, B. Schmitt, H. Deng, R. Humbert, M. Tecchio, Tetsuro Mashimo, R. P. Middleton, C. Charlesworth, A. I. McNab, F. X. Gentit, J. E. Conboy, G. W. Wilson, A. Fürtjes, Michael Kobel, J. Goldberg, P. Weber, Gregor Herten, A. M. Rossi, H. Przysiezniak, D. Axen, A. Jawahery, Giora Mikenberg, D. Karlen, B. Nellen, W. Gorn, S. G. Clowes, C. Burgard, D. Hochman, P. A. Hart, B. Wilkens, P. Leblanc, T. Tsukamoto, Ehud Duchovni, Paolo Giacomelli, M. Hansroul, M. Fierro, H. Lafoux, T. J. Smith, K. Stephens, Peter Sherwood, M. Jimack, Z. Li, Norbert Wermes, Sherry Towers, Hans-Christian Schultz-Coulon, T. Kawamoto, A. Buijs, J. R. McNutt, M. J. Pearce, D. M. Strom, H. Ihssen, R. W. Springer, Alexander Wagner, J. Hagemann, C. H. Shepherd-Themistocleous, H. G. Evans, J. Ludwig, J. E. Pilcher, C. Dallapiccolla, S. W. Gensler, M. J. Goodrick, K. Runge, P. Bock, I. Cohen, John Allison, C. Darling, S. Orito, M. F. Turner-Watson, M. Morii, M. Rosvick, S. J. Hillier, R. J. Homer, T. Kobayashi, Randall Sobie, Peter R Hobson, S. Braibant, Gunter Wolf, M. Hauschild, P. Gagnon, C. Stegmann, N. I. Geddes, Michael Schulz, G. D. Lafferty, P. Routenburg, V. Gibson, R. Ströhmer, C. Markus, P. Mättig, Shoji Asai, G. T. Zorn, A. Astbury, U. Müller, S. Wotton, B. Poli, H. M. Bosch, R. Kowalewski, A. J. Martin, Wolfram Dietrich Zeuner, H. Fukui, A. Yeaman, P. D. Grannis, Gideon Alexander, J. M. Roney, R. G. Kellogg, Paolo Capiluppi, D. R. Ward, G. A. Snow, C. K. Hargrove, C. P. Ward, D. L. Rees, D. S. Koetke, J. C. Clayton, Stefano Marcellini, T. W. Pritchard, James Letts, Madjid Boutemeur, P. S. Wells, Guenter Duckeck, Terry Richard Wyatt, P. G. Estabrooks, R. K. Keeler, M. Coupland, P. M. Watkins, R. Howard, Claude Leroy, J. P. Pansart, V. H. Winterer, P. Szymanski, C. Jui, Stan Bentvelsen, C. Sbarra, Michael Dittmar, G. Yekutieli, A. A. Carter, Ron Folman, Roger Jones, M. G. Rison, T. J. McMahon, J. Schwiening, R. K. Carnegie, J. A. Wilson, J. von Krogh, J. Hart, Dave Robinson, J. D. Gillies, R. J. Barlow, D. J. Miller, D. Rigby, R. J. Hemingway, B. W. Kennedy, P. Jovanovic, Austin Ball, Peter Krieger, N. K. Watson, Manuella Vincter, Alessandro Montanari, R. Mir, J. Lauber, H. Takeda, F. G. Oakham, W. Mohr, A. Posthaus, P. A. Elcombe, J. Becker, F. Scharf, A. D. Schaile, A. Skillman, E. K. U. Gross, A. Gaidot, T. Wlodek, M. Sproston, and N. Tesch
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Nuclear physics ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Electron–positron annihilation ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Particle Physics - Experiment ,Charged particle ,Lepton - Abstract
We present an update of our measurement of the τ lepton lifetime, using data taken during 1992 and 1993 with the OPAL detector at LEP. The lifetime is determined from analyses of the impact parameters of tracks from τ decays to a single charged particle, and the reconstructed decay lenghts from the τ decays to three charged particles. With the added statistics (which increase the τ pair event sample size by more than a factor of four over our 1990 and 1991 data sample), the updated lifetime measurement is: ττ = 288.8 ± 2.2 (stat) ± 1.4 (sys) fs. When combined with world-average measurements of the tau leptonic branching fractions (assuming e-μ universality), the ratio of charged-current couplings is: ( g τ g μ ) = 1.005 ± 0.007 , in agreement with the hypothesis of τ-μ charged-current universality.
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- 1994