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Determination of the parity of the neutral pion via its four-electron decay.
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Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2008 May 09; Vol. 100 (18), pp. 182001. Date of Electronic Publication: 2008 May 06. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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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