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Strange Quark Mass Dependence of the Tau Hadronic Width

Joaquim Prades, Antonio Pich

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9811263

Abstract

The perturbative quark mass corrections to the tau hadronic width are studied to O(alphas3 mq2). Including up to dimension four corrections, we get ms(4 GeV2)=(143 42) MeV [ms(1 GeV2)=(193 59) MeV ]. Possible improvements to reduce the theoretical uncertainty are pointed out.

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