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arxiv: 0906.1386 · v1 · submitted 2009-06-07 · ✦ hep-ph

Status of the Hadronic tau Decay Determination of |V_(us)|

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keywords determinationhadronicresultstheoreticalalternatebranchingconsideredconstruction
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We update the hadronic tau determination of |V_{us}|, showing that current strange branching fractions produce results 2-3 sigma lower than 3-family unitarity expectations. Issues related to the size of theoretical uncertainties and results from an alternate, mixed tau-electroproduction sum rule determination (which, by construction, produces a much smaller theoretical uncertainty), are also considered.

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