University of Pennsylvania
Department of Physics and Astronomy
High Energy Physics Seminar
Sherry Towers

Since its discovery in 1974, the study of the production and decay of the tau lepton has proved to be "particle physics in a nutshell". The tau has produced many interesting suprises over the past 25 years, inspiring much effort in the last decade to understand the key aspects of this, the heaviest of the leptons. After all the precision tau results derived from the large tau samples collected at LEP, CESR, and BES, could there possibly be anything interesting left to explore in tau physics? The answer, strangely enough, is yes...