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R. Alemany

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Summary Report of Physics Beyond Colliders at CERN

Physics Beyond Colliders is an exploratory study aimed at exploiting the full scientific potential of CERN's accelerator complex and its scientific infrastructure in the next two decades through projects complementary to the LHC, HL-LHC and other possible future colliders. These projects should target fundamental physics questions that are similar in spirit to those addressed by high-energy colliders, but that require different types of beams and experiments. A kick-off workshop held in September 2016 identified a number of areas of interest and working groups have been set-up to study and develop these directions. All projects currently under consideration are presented including physics motivation, a brief outline of the experimental set-up and the status of the corresponding beam and detector technological studies. The proposals are also put in context of the worldwide landscape and their implementation issues are discussed.

hep-ex

Improved Determination of the Hadronic Contribution to the Muon (g-2) and to alpha(M_Z**2) Using new Data from Hadronic Tau Decays

We have reevaluated the hadronic contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (g-2) and to the running of the QED fine structure constant alpha(s) at s=M_Z**2. We incorporated new data from hadronic tau decays, recently published by the ALEPH Collaboration. In addition, compared to previous analyses, we use more extensive e+e- annihilation data sets. The integration over the total hadronic cross section is performed using experimental data up to 40 GeV and results from perturbative QCD above 40 GeV. The improvement from tau data concerns mainly the pion form factor, where the uncertainty in the corresponding integral could be reduced by more than a factor of two. We obtain for the lowest order hadronic vacuum polarization graph a_mu(had) = (695.0 +/- 15.0) x 10^{-10} and delta(alpha(M_Z**2))(had) = (280.9 +/- 6.3) x 10^{-4} using e+e- data only. The corresponding results for combined e+e- and tau data are a_mu(had) = (701.1 +/- 9.4) x 10^{-10} and delta(alpha(M_Z**2))(had) = (281.7 +/- 6.2) x 10^{-4}, where the latter is calculated using the contribution from the five lightest quarks.

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Searching for Exotic Tau Decays

We discuss the potential of $τ$-charm and B factories for the search of new physics through the study of rare $τ$ decays. We consider decays that involve the violation of lepton flavour conservation. Such decays bear a close relationship to the physics of neutrino mass and the properties of the lepton sector of the electroweak theory.

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