CP Violation in $\tau\rightarrow 3\pi\nu_\tau$

Abstract

We consider CP violating effects in the decays $\tau\rightarrow (3\pi)\nu_\tau$ where both the ${\rm J}^{\rm P}=1^+$ resonance, $a_1$, and ${\rm J}^{\rm P}=0^-$ resonance, $\pi^\prime$, can contribute. The interference between the $a_1$ and $\pi^\prime$ resonances can lead to enhanced CP-violating asymmetries whose magnitudes depend crucially on the $\pi^\prime$ decay constant, $f_{\pi^\prime}$. We make an estimate of $f_{\pi^\prime}$ with a simplified chiral Lagrangian coupled to a massive pseudoscalar field, and we compare the estimates from the non-relativistic quark model and from the QCD sum rule with the estimate from the `mock' meson model. We then estimate quantitatively the size of CP-violating effects in a multi-Higgs-doublet model and scalar-leptoquark models. We find that, while CP-violating effects in the scalar-leptoquark models may require more than $10^{10}$ $\tau$ leptons, CP-violating effects from the multi-Higgs-doublet model can be seen at the $2\sigma$ level with about $10^7$ $\tau$ leptons using the chiral Lagrangian estimate of $f_{\pi^\prime}=(1\sim 5)\times 10^{-3}$ GeV.