QCD Description of Hadronic Tau Decays
Abstract
The QCD analysis of hadronic tau decays is reviewed and a summary of the present phenomenological status is presented. The following topics are discussed: the determination of alphas(mtau) = 0.338 +- 0.012 from the inclusive tau hadronic width, the measurement of |Vus| through the Cabibbo-suppressed decays of the tau, and the extraction of chiral-perturbation-theory couplings from the spectral tau data.
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