International Journal of Modern Physics a C World Scientific Publishing Company

Using only independent high-scale OPE input, we investigate QCD sum rule constraints on two currently incompatible versions of the isovector vector spectral function, one obtained from electroproduction (EM) data, the other from hadronic τ decay data. Sum rules involving weighted integrals over the spectral function, from threshold to a variable upper endpoint s0, are employed. It is shown that both the normalization and slope with respect to s0 of the EM spectral integrals disagree with the corresponding OPE expectations, while both normalization and slope are in good agreement when hadronic τ decay data is used instead. These results favor determinations of the leading hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to aμ obtained using the τ decay data, and hence Standard Model predictions for aμ compatible with the current experimental determination.