CP Violation in Hadronic tau Decays

ALAKABHA DATTA; KEN KIERS; DAVID LONDON; PATRICK O'DONNELL; ALEJANDRO SZYNKMAN

PHYSICAL REVIEW D - PARTICLE AND FILDS

American Physical Society

Año: 2007

0556-2821

We reexamine CP violation in the ΔS=0 decays τ→Nπντ (N=2,3,4). We assume that the new physics (NP) is a charged Higgs boson. We show that there is no NP contribution to τ→ππντ, which means that no CP violation is expected in this decay. On the other hand, NP can contribute to τ→Nπντ (N=3,4). These are dominated by the intermediate resonant decays τ→ωπντ, τ→ρπντ, and τ→a1πντ. We show that the only sizeable CP-violating effects which are possible are in τ→a1πντ→4πντ (polarization-dependent rate asymmetry) and τ→ωπντ (triple-product asymmetry).