Abstract: | The tau lepton lifetime has been measured with the
events collected by the DELPHI detector at LEP in the years 1991-1995. Three different methods have been exploited, using both one-prong and three-prong
decay channels. Two measurements have been made using events in which both taus decay to a single charged particle. Combining these measurements gave
. A third measurement using taus which decayed to three charged particles yielded
These were combined with previous DELPHI results to measure the tau lifetime, using the full LEP1 data sample, to be
.Received: 12 November 2003, Revised: 1 June 2004, Published online: 20 July 2004 |