Measurement of the energy spectrum of ν_e from muon decay and implications for the Lorentz structure of the weak interaction

Details Measurement of the energy spectrum of ν_e from muon decay and implications for the Lorentz structure of the weak interaction Measurement of the energy spectrum of ν_e from muon decay and implications for the Lorentz structure of the weak interaction

1998-06-24

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9806024v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 81 (1998) 520-523

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

11 pages including 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.520

The KARMEN experiment uses the reaction 12C(\nu_e,e-)12N to measure the energy distribution of \nu_e emitted in muon decay at rest. The \nu_e analog \omega_l of the famous Michel parameter \rho has been derived from a maximum-likelihood analysis of events near the kinematic end point, E_max. The result, \omega_l = (2.7^{+3.8}_{-3.3}\pm 3.1) * 10^{-2}, is in good agreement with the standard model prediction \omega_l= 0. We deduce a 90% confidence upper limit of \omega_l <= 0.113, which corresponds to a limit of |g^S_RL + 2 g^T_RL| <= 0.78 on the interference term between scalar and tensor coupling constants.

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