Search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the neutral kaon


Autoria(s): ABOUZAID, E.; ARENTON, M.; BARKER, A. R.; BELLANTONI, L.; BELLAVANCE, A.; BLUCHER, E.; BOCK, G. J.; CHEU, E.; COLEMAN, R.; CORCORAN, M. D.; COX, B.; ERWIN, A. R.; ESCOBAR, C. O.; GLAZOV, A.; GOLOSSANOV, A.; GOMES, R. A.; Gouffon, Philippe; HSIUNG, Y. B.; JENSEN, D. A.; KESSLER, R.; KOTERA, K.; LEDOVSKOY, A.; MCBRIDE, P. L.; MONNIER, E.; NGUYEN, H.; NICLASEN, R.; II, D. G. Phillips; PING, H.; RAMBERG, E. J.; RAY, R. E.; RONQUEST, M.; Paes, Eliel dos Santos; SLATER, W.; SMITH, D.; SOLOMEY, N.; SWALLOW, E. C.; TOALE, P. A.; TSCHIRHART, R.; WAH, Y. W.; WANG, J.; WHITE, H. B.; WHITMORE, J.; WILKING, M. J.; WINSTEIN, B.; WINSTON, R.; WOLFE, C.; WORCESTER, E. T.; WORCESTER, M.; YAMANAKA, T.; ZIMMERMAN, E. D.; Funchal, Renata Zukanovich
Contribuinte(s)

UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

Data(s)

18/04/2012

18/04/2012

2008

Resumo

The Fermilab KTeV experiment has searched for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the K(L) meson in three decay modes. We observe no events in the signal region for any of the modes studied, and we set the following upper limits for their branching ratios at the 90% C.L.: BR(K(L)->pi(0)mu(+/-)e(-/+))< 7.6x10(-11); BR(K(L)->pi(0)pi(0)mu(+/-)e(-/+))< 1.7x10(-10); BR(pi(0)->mu(+/-)e(-/+))< 3.6x10(-10). This result represents a factor of 82 improvement in the branching ratio limit for K(L)->pi(0)mu(+/-)e(-/+) and is the first reported limit for K(L)->pi(0)pi(0)mu(+/-)e(-/+).

Identificador

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, v.100, n.13, 2008

0031-9007

http://producao.usp.br/handle/BDPI/16047

10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.131803

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.131803

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Relação

Physical Review Letters

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Palavras-Chave #K(+) #Physics, Multidisciplinary
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