Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1848023 | Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements | 2007 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Recent progress in the determination of |Vus| employing strange hadronic τ-decay data are reported. This includes using the recent OPAL update of the strange spectral function, as well as augmenting the dimension-two perturbative contribution with the recently calculated order term on the theory side. These updates result in |Vus|=0.2220±0.0033, with the uncertainty presently being dominated by experiment, and already being competitive with the standard extraction from Ke3 decays and other new proposals to determine |Vus|. In vie of the ongoing work to analyse τ-decay data at the B-factories BaBar and Belle, as well as future results from BESIII, the error on |Vus| from τ decays is expected to be much reduced in the near future.
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