Search for the decay KL → π0e+e-

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作者
Alavi-Harati, A
Albuquerque, IF
Alexopoulos, T
Arenton, M
Arisaka, K
Averitte, S
Barker, AR
Bellantoni, L
Bellavance, A
Belz, J
Ben-David, R
Bergman, DR
Blucher, E
Bock, GJ
Bown, C
Bright, S
Cheu, E
Childress, S
Coleman, R
Corcoran, MD
Corti, G
Cox, B
Crisler, MB
Erwin, AR
Ford, R
Fordyce, PM
Glazov, A
Golossanov, A
Graham, G
Graham, J
Hagan, K
Halkiadakis, E
Hanagaki, K
Hidaka, S
Hsiung, YB
Jejer, V
Jennings, J
Jensen, DA
Kessler, R
Kobrak, HGE
LaDue, J
Lath, A
Ledovskoy, A
McBride, PL
McManus, AP
Mikelsons, P
Monnier, E
Nakaya, T
Nelson, KS
Nguyen, H
机构
[1] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[2] Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[3] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[4] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[5] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[6] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[7] Elmurst Coll, Elmhurst, IL 60126 USA
[8] Osaka Univ, Toyonaka, Osaka 560, Japan
[9] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77005 USA
[10] Rutgers State Univ, Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA
[11] Univ Virginia, Dept Phys, Charlottesville, VA 22901 USA
[12] Univ Virginia, Inst Nucl & Particle Phys, Charlottesville, VA 22901 USA
[13] Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.397
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We report on a search for the decay K-L --> pi (0)e(+)e(-) carried out by the KTeV/E799 experiment. at Fermilab. This decay is expected to have a significant CP violating contribution and the measurement of its branching ratio could support the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism for CP violation or could point to new physics. Two events were observed in the 1997 data with an expected back ground of 1.06 +/- 0.41 events, and we set an upper limit B(K-L --> pi (0)e(+)e(-)) <5.1 X 10(-10) at the 90% confidence level.
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页码:397 / 401
页数:5
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