Decay Rates, Structure Functions and New Physics Effects in Hadronic Tau Decays

Abstract

Hadronic decays rates of the $\tau$ lepton into multi meson final states are presented. The structure of the hadronic matrix elements for various decay modes is discussed. The formalism of structure functions allows for a detailed test of these matrix elements. Various correlations are discussed which are sensitive to possible CP violation and new physics effects in the decay modes.

Comments: 16 pages, Latex, RevTex, no figures. Invited talk presented by E. Mirkes at the Workshop on the Tau/Charm Factory, Argonne National Laboratory, June 21-23, 1995