Branching ratio estimates of τ⁻ → π⁻η^(′)v_τ decays

Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona

^* e-mail: sgonzalez@ifae.cat. This work has been supported by the FPI scholarship BES-2012-055371. The author thanks P. Roig for the reading of the manuscript.

Published online: 29 November 2016

Abstract

We study the rare τ⁻ → π⁻ η(′)v_τ decays. These processes occur via isospin violation and belong to the so-called second-class currents unseen in Nature so far. Our analysis is based on the framework of resonance chiral theory supplemented by dispersion relations. In this contribution we discuss the prospects for their discovery at forthcoming B-factories such Belle-II. While we find a total branching fraction for the π⁻η decay mode of ~1.7 × 10⁻⁵, well within the reach of Belle-II, the π⁻η′ channel might be one or two orders of magnitude more suppressed.