Observation of the decay KS → π+π-e+e-

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作者
Lai, A
Marras, D
Musa, L
Bevan, A
Dosanjh, RS
Gershon, TJ
Hay, B
Kalmus, GE
Munday, DJ
Needham, MD
Olaiya, E
Parker, MA
White, TO
Wotton, SA
Barr, G
Blümer, H
Bocquet, G
Ceccucci, A
Cundy, D
D'Agostini, G
Doble, N
Falaleev, V
Gatignon, L
Gonidec, A
Govi, G
Grafström, P
Kubischta, W
Lacourt, A
Norton, A
Palestini, S
Panzer-Steindel, B
Peyaud, B
Taureg, H
Velasco, M
Wahl, H
Cheshkov, C
Hristov, P
Kekelidze, V
Madigojine, D
Mestvirishvili, A
Molokanova, N
Potrebenikov, Y
Tatishvili, G
Tkatchev, A
Zinchenko, A
Knowles, I
Martin, V
Parsons, H
Sacco, R
Lazzeroni, C
机构
[1] CEA Saclay, DSM, DAPNIA, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[2] Univ Perugia, Dipartimento Fis, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[3] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[4] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
[5] Univ Pisa, Dipartimento Fis, Scuola Normale Super, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
[6] Univ Siegen, Fachbereich Phys, D-57068 Siegen, Germany
[7] Univ Turin, Dipartimento Fis Sperimentale, I-10125 Turin, Italy
[8] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Torino, I-10125 Turin, Italy
[9] Soltan Inst Nucl Studies, High Energy Phys Lab, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
[10] Osterreich Akad Wissensch, Inst Hochenergiephys, A-1050 Vienna, Austria
[11] Univ Modena, Dipartimento Fis, I-41100 Modena, Italy
[12] Univ Cagliari, Dipartimento Fis, I-09100 Cagliari, Italy
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Cagliari, I-09100 Cagliari, Italy
[14] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England
[15] CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[16] Joint Nucl Res Inst, Dubna, Russia
[17] Univ Edinburgh, Dept Phys & Astron, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Midlothian, Scotland
[18] Univ Ferrara, Dipartimento Fis, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[19] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Ferrara, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[20] Univ Florence, Dipartimento Fis, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[21] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[22] Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
[23] Univ Paris Sud, Lab Accelerateur Lineaire, IN2P3, CNRS, F-91406 Orsay, France
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10.1016/S0370-2693(00)01300-9
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摘要
We present the first observation of the decay K-S -> pi (+)pi (-)e(+)e(-) based upon the data collected in 1998 by the NA48 experiment at CERN. We have identified a clean sample of 56 events with negligible background contamination. Using K-L -> pi (+)pi (-)pi (0)(D) decays as normalization sample, the branching ratio is measured to be BR(K-S -> pi (+)pi (-)e(+)e(-)) = [4.5 +/- 0.7(stat) +/- 0.4(syst)] x 10(-5). This result is in good agreement with the theoretical expectations from the mechanism of inner bremsstrahlung. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页数:8
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