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Determination of the parity of the neutral pion via its four-electron decay.

Authors :
Abouzaid E
Arenton M
Barker AR
Bellantoni L
Blucher E
Bock GJ
Cheu E
Coleman R
Corcoran MD
Cox B
Erwin AR
Escobar CO
Glazov A
Golossanov A
Gomes RA
Gouffon P
Hsiung YB
Jensen DA
Kessler R
Kotera K
Ledovskoy A
McBride PL
Monnier E
Nguyen H
Niclasen R
Phillips DG 2nd
Ramberg EJ
Ray RE
Ronquest M
Santos E
Slater W
Smith D
Solomey N
Swallow EC
Toale PA
Tschirhart R
Wah YW
Wang J
White HB
Whitmore J
Wilking MJ
Winstein B
Winston R
Worcester ET
Yamanaka T
Zimmerman ED
Zukanovich RF
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2008 May 09; Vol. 100 (18), pp. 182001. Date of Electronic Publication: 2008 May 06.
Publication Year :
2008

Abstract

We present a new determination of the parity of the neutral pion via the double Dalitz decay pi0-->e+e-e+e-. Our sample, which consists of 30,511 candidate decays, was collected from KL-->pi0pi0pi0 decays in flight at the KTeV-E799 experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. We confirm the negative pi0 parity and place a limit on scalar contributions to the pi0-->e+e-e+e- decay amplitude of less than 3.3% assuming CPT conservation. The pi0gamma*gamma* form factor is well described by a momentum-dependent model with a slope parameter fit to the final state phase-space distribution. Additionally, we have measured the branching ratio of this mode to be B(pi0-->e+e-e+e-)=(3.26+/-0.18)x10(-5).

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0031-9007
Volume :
100
Issue :
18
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
18518364
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.182001