51. Study of the decay K+ => pi+,nu,nubar in the momentum region 140<Ppi<199 MeV/c
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E949 Collaboration, Artamonov, A. V., Bassalleck, B., Bhuyan, B., Blackmore, E. W., Bryman, D. A., Chen, S., Chiang, I-H., Christidi, I. -A., Cooper, P. S., Diwan, M. V., Frank, J. S., Fujiwara, T., Hu, J., Ives, J., Jaffe, D. E., Kabe, S., Kettell, S. H., Khabibullin, M. M., Khotjantsev, A. N., Kitching, P., Kobayashi, M., Komatsubara, T. K., Konaka, A., Kozhevnikov, A. P., Kudenko, Yu. G., Kushnirenko, A., Landsberg, L. G., Lewis, B., Li, K. K., Littenberg, L. S., Macdonald, J. A., Mildenberger, J., Mineev, O. V., Miyajima, M., Mizouchi, K., Mukhin, V. A., Muramatsu, N., Nakano, T., Nomachi, M., Nomura, T., Numao, T., Obraztsov, V. F., Omata, K., Patalakha, D. I., Petrenko, S. V., Poutissou, R., Ramberg, E. J., Redlinger, G., Sato, T., Sekiguchi, T., Shinkawa, T., Strand, R. C., Sugimoto, S., Tamagawa, Y., Tschirhart, R., Tsunemi, T., Vavilov, D. V., Viren, B., Wang, Zhe, Yershov, N. V., Yoshimura, Y., and Yoshioka, T.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
Experiment E949 at Brookhaven National Laboratory has observed three new events consistent with the decay K+ => pi+,nu,nubar in the pion momentum region 140 < P_pi < 199 MeV/c in an exposure of 1.71e12 stopped kaons with an estimated total background of 0.93+-0.17(stat.)+0.32-0.24(syst.) events. This brings the total number of observed K+ => pi+,nu,nubar events to seven. Combining this observation with previous results, assuming the pion spectrum predicted by the standard model, results in a branching ratio of (1.73+1.15-1.05)e-10. An interpretation of the results for alternative models of the decay K^ => pi+,nothing is also presented., Comment: Submitted to Phys.Rev. D
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- 2009
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