Measurement of the branching ratio of pi^0 -> e^+e^- using K_L -> 3 pi^0 decays in flight

Details Measurement of the branching ratio of pi^0 -> e^+e^- using K_L -> 3 pi^0 decays in flight Measurement of the branching ratio of pi^0 -> e^+e^- using K_L -> 3 pi^0 decays in flight

1999-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9903007v2

Phys.Rev.Lett.83:922-925,1999

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

New version shortened to PRL length limit. 5 pages, 4 figures. Published in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.922

The branching ratio of the rare decay pi^0 -> e^+e^- has been measured in E799-II, a rare kaon decay experiment using the KTeV detector at Fermilab. The pi^0's were produced in fully-reconstructed K_L -> 3 pi^0 decays in flight. We observed 275 candidate pi^0 -> e^+e^- events, with an expected background of 21.4 +- 6.2 events which includes the contribution from Dalitz decays. We measured BR(pi^0 -> e^+e^-, x>0.95) = (6.09 +- 0.40 +- 0.24) times 10^{-8}, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. This result is the first significant observation of the excess rate for this decay above the unitarity lower bound.

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