TAU LEPTON PHYSICS

The II International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics was held in Ohio, USA in September 1992. Its purpose is to gather the experts on tau lepton physics to examine the current understanding of the tau lepton physics and to assess future prospects. A particular emphasis of the Workshop was a detailed examination of the "1-prong problem": the discrepancy between the inclusive measurement of one-charged-particle decay branching ratio and the sum of the exclusive decays. The Workshop also stimulated new ideas on tests of the Standard Model using the third generation lepton and assessed the future prospects of the lepton physics.

Contents:

• New Measurements of the τ Lepton Mass (H Marsiske)
• Tau Leptonic Branching Ratios with the L3 Detector (N Colino)
• Measurement of the Spectral Functions and Determination of the Strong Coupling Constant (F Le Diberder)
• Beyond the Standard Model in Tau Decays (J W F Valle)
• A Precise Measurement of the τ Lepton Lifetime (S R Wasserbaech)
• Tests for CP Violation in τ Decays (C A Nelson)
• Measurement of τ Polarization at LEP (H Videau)
• The Physics of the τ Neutrino (F Vannucci)
• and other papers

Readership: High energy physicists.