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Search for a Light Pseudoscalar Particle in the DecayKL0→π0π0X

Authors :
J. Nix
M. Yamaga
S. Podolsky
E. Iwai
T. Yamanaka
A. Lednev
V. A. Baranov
M. Doroshenko
T. Tsukamoto
Toru Sato
M. Sekimoto
Y. C. Tung
T. K. Komatsubara
T. Shinkawa
Y. Yoshimura
H. S. Lee
S. Suzuki
H. Morii
T. Inagaki
Y. Akune
J. K. Ahn
T. Nakano
K. Omata
S. Kobayashi
H. Okuno
Hiroshi Yoshida
J. R. Comfort
Y. W. Wah
G. Y. Lim
Soo Young Lee
Yasuhisa Tajima
I. Kato
Takashi Nomura
M. L. Wu
Y. B. Hsiung
Y. Zheng
T. Matsumura
Masaharu Nomachi
Toshi Sumida
J. Ma
N. Sasao
Hajime Nanjo
H. Watanabe
E. Kuzmin
Y. Fujioka
Z. Tsamalaidze
T. Iwata
T. Morimoto
Ryusei Ogata
S. Ishibashi
A. S. Kurilin
N. Ishihara
S. Takita
Yorihito Sugaya
H. Ishii
K. Sakashita
H. Sato
G. N. Perdue
K. F. Chen
A. Moisseenko
Akira Sugiyama
T. Sasaki
Source :
Physical Review Letters. 102
Publication Year :
2009
Publisher :
American Physical Society (APS), 2009.

Abstract

We performed a search for a light pseudoscalar particle X in the decay K{sub L}{sup 0}{yields}{pi}{sup 0}{pi}{sup 0}X, X{yields}{gamma}{gamma} with the E391a detector at KEK. Such a particle with a mass of 214.3 MeV/c{sup 2} was suggested by the HyperCP experiment. We found no evidence for X and set an upper limit on the product branching ratio for K{sub L}{sup 0}{yields}{pi}{sup 0}{pi}{sup 0}X, X{yields}{gamma}{gamma} of 2.4x10{sup -7} at the 90% confidence level. Upper limits on the branching ratios in the mass region of X from 194.3 to 219.3 MeV/c{sup 2} are also presented.

Details

ISSN :
10797114 and 00319007
Volume :
102
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical Review Letters
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........df91a2fb92beb53b8863ad42d754b5a2
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.102.051802