Production of polarized τ pairs and tests of CP violation using polarized e+/- colliders near threshold
Abstract
We consider the production of τ pairs by electron-positron colliding beams at the maximum cross section near the threshold. At this energy τ pairs are produced mostly in the s wave which implies that the spin of the τ pairs is almost always pointing in the beam direction independent of the production angle. When both electrons and positrons are longitudinally polarized in the same direction, for example, 90%, one can obtain τ pairs with 99% polarization in the direction of the polarization vectors of the incident beams. Tests of CP violation and study of the structure of weak interactions using such polarized τ pairs is discussed.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- April 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.51.3172
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9410265
- Bibcode:
- 1995PhRvD..51.3172T
- Keywords:
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- 14.60.Fg;
- 11.30.Er;
- 13.10.+q;
- 13.88.+e;
- Taus;
- Charge conjugation parity time reversal and other discrete symmetries;
- Polarization in interactions and scattering;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 30 pages, 5 figures, uuencoded file, SLAC-PUB-6685