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the underlying physics of the different hadronic tau lepton decays. The |
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dominant hadronic decays of taus consist of a one or three charged $\pi^{\pm}$ |
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mesons and up to two $\pi^0$ mesons and are enumerated in |
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table~\ref{table:decay_modes}. The majority of these decays proceed through |
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table~\ref{tab:decay_modes}. The majority of these decays proceed through |
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intermediate resonances and each of these decay modes maps directly to a tau |
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final state multiplicity. Each intermediate resonance has a different invariant |
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mass (see figure~\ref{fig:trueInvMass}). This implies that the problem of |
