Electromagnetic corrections in hadronic tau decay

TL;DR

This paper calculates the model-independent QED electromagnetic corrections to specific hadronic tau decays, aiming to improve the accuracy of decay width estimations by accounting for soft photon emissions.

Contribution

It provides a detailed computation of electromagnetic corrections for tau to K/pi neutrino decays, enhancing the precision of theoretical predictions.

Findings

Quantifies electromagnetic correction effects on tau decay widths.

Improves the theoretical modeling of soft photon emissions in tau decays.

Supports more accurate experimental data analysis.

Abstract

It is well known that in every experiment involving charged particles there are individual photons emitted with small energy /omega and those with /omega < /omega_{0} will not be detected but are present in the data. The typical procedure to estimate this effect consists in taking the leading logarithm from the soft photon approximation and to make a simulation through a Monte Carlo Algorithm (PHOTOS). The aim of this work is to compute the model independent QED correction to tau--> K /pi /nu and to estimate its effect in the decay width in the particular process tau^{+}-->K^{0} /pi^{+}/nu.