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SLAC-PUB-7998
A Perspective on Tau Physics
Abstract
It will soon be the twenty fifth anniversary of the discovery of the
tau lepton. It has been an amazing twenty five years for tau physics
and for the strong interaction physics that can be deduced from
studies of tau decays. The discovery of the tau was based on the
elucidation of the nature of about one hundred tau pairs. At this
Fifth International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics new results in tau
physics are based on hundreds of thousands or even millions of tau
pairs. In the next two decades we will see the data on tau pairs
increase by at least a factor of ten. The theoretical work and
theoretical understanding of tau physics and tau neutrino physics has
also expanded enormously, and this theory will continue to grow in its
reach and its depth. Given the vastness of this field and the
recognition that there is always great uncertainty in predicting
future directions and accomplishments in a scientific field; any
perspective of the future of a scientific field is substantially
dependent on the author's opinions and guesses. I have limited this
talk to seven topics: tau research facilities in the next decades,
searching for unexpected tau decay modes, searching for additional tau
decay mechanisms, radiative tau decays, tau decay modes of the
W, B, and D, searching for CP violation in tau
decay, and rethinking the Tau-Charm factory.
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