Kim Maltman

On the longitudinal contributions to hadronic tau decay

A number of recent determinations of

Vus from hadronic τ decays

m_s

The strange quark mass, αs, and the chiral limit electroweak penguin K → ππ matrix elements from hadronic τ decay data

using hadronic

A Mixed Tau-Electroproduction Sum Rule for |V(us)|

tau

mu+md from isovector pseudoscalar sum rules

decay data involve inclusive analyses based on the so-called

Joint extraction of ms and Vus from hadronic τ decays

(k,0)

The Joint Extraction of m_s and V_us From Hadronic Tau Decay Data

spectral weights. We show here that the OPE representations of the longitudinal contributions appearing in these analyses, which are already known to be poorly converging, have in addition an unphysical

Resolving the τ vs. Electroproduction Discrepancy for the I = 1 Vector Spectral Function and Implications for the SM Prediction for aμ

k

Status of the QCD sum rule determinations of the light quark masses

dependence which produces a significant unphysical decrease in

alpha_s from tau decays revisited

m_s