Resonance chiral Lagrangian currents and tau decay Monte Carlo

TL;DR

This paper presents a set of form factors based on Resonance Chiral Theory for modeling hadronic tau decays, with implementation details for Monte Carlo simulations, facilitating analysis at experiments like Belle, BaBar, and LHC.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive set of hadronic currents for tau decays derived from Resonance Chiral Theory, with technical implementation in FORTRAN for the TAUOLA Monte Carlo program.

Findings

Form factors cover over 88% of hadronic tau decay width.

Implementation in TAUOLA enables easy integration into experimental software.

The set is ready for data fitting and confrontation with experimental results.

Abstract

Measurements of tau lepton, because of its long lifetime, large mass and parity sensitive couplings lead to broad physics interest. From the perspective of high-energy experiments such as at LHC, knowledge of tau lepton properties offers an important ingredient of new physics signatures. From the perspective of lower energies, tau lepton decays constitute an excellent laboratory for hadronic interactions. At present,hundreds of millions of tau decays have been amassed by both Belle and BaBar experiments. It is of utmost importance to represent such data in a form as useful for general applications as possible. In the present paper we describe the set of form factors for hadronic tau decays based on Resonance Chiral Theory. The technical implementation of the form factors in FORTRAN code is also explained. It is shown how it can be installed into TAUOLA Monte Carlo program. Then it is rather easy to implement into software environments of not only Belle and BaBar collaborations but also for FORTRAN and C++ applications of LHC. Description of the current for each tau decay mode is complemented with technical numerical tests. The set is ready for fits, parameters to be used in fits are explained. Arrangements to work with the experimental data not requiring unfolding are prepared. Hadronic currents, ready for confrontation with the tau decay data, but not yet ready for the general use, cover more than 88% of hadronic tau decay width.