NEW PRECISION-MEASUREMENT OF THE MUON MOMENTUM IN PION DECAY AT REST

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DAUM, M [1 ]
FROSCH, R [1 ]
HERTER, D [1 ]
JANOUSCH, M [1 ]
KETTLE, PR [1 ]
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[1] UNIV ZURICH,INST PHYS,CH-8001 ZURICH,SWITZERLAND
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10.1016/0370-2693(91)90078-5
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We have continued the measurement of the muon momentum p-mu+ in the decay pi+ --> mu+nu-mu of pions at rest. The new result, p-mu+ = 29.79179 +/- 0.00053 MeV/c, and the assumption of a vanishing neutrino mass m-nu-mu lead to a charged pion mass of 139.56996 +/- 0.00067 MeV/c2, 3.5 standard deviations higher than the current world average of the mass obtained from pionic X-rays. For m-nu-mu > 0 the discrepancy would be even larger.
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