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Register a new userMeasurements from KTeV of Rare Decays of the K_L and pi^0
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E. D. Zimmerman
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The KTeV collaboration at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has recently completed searches for and measurements of several decay modes of the neutral kaon and pion. These include new searches for lepton flavor violating decays (which have not been seen), and a new study of the parity properties of the decay pi^0 -> e^+e^-e^+e^-.
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A search for the rare decay $K_L !to! pi^0 u overline{ u}$ was performed. With the data collected in 2015, corresponding to $2.2 times 10^{19}$ protons on target, a single event sensitivity of $( 1.30 pm 0.01_{rm stat} pm 0.14_{rm syst} ) times 10^{-9}$ was achieved and no candidate events were observed. We set an upper limit of $3.0 times 10^{-9}$ for the branching fraction of $K_L !to! pi^0 u overline{ u}$ at the 90% confidence level (C.L.), which improved the previous limit by almost an order of magnitude. An upper limit for $K_L !to! pi^0 X^0$ was also set as $2.4 times 10^{-9}$ at the 90% C.L., where $X^0$ is an invisible boson with a mass of $135~{rm MeV}/c^2$.
The branching ratio of the rare decay pi^0 -> e^+e^- has been measured in E799-II, a rare kaon decay experiment using the KTeV detector at Fermilab. The pi^0s were produced in fully-reconstructed K_L -> 3 pi^0 decays in flight. We observed 275 candidate pi^0 -> e^+e^- events, with an expected background of 21.4 +- 6.2 events which includes the contribution from Dalitz decays. We measured BR(pi^0 -> e^+e^-, x>0.95) = (6.09 +- 0.40 +- 0.24) times 10^{-8}, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. This result is the first significant observation of the excess rate for this decay above the unitarity lower bound.
We present a measurement of $B(pi^0 rightarrow e^+e^- gamma)/B(pi^0 rightarrow gammagamma)$, the Dalitz branching ratio, using data taken in 1999 by the E832 KTeV experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. We use neutral pions from fully reconstructed $K_L$ decays in flight; the measurement is based on about 60 thousand $K_L rightarrow pi^0pi^0pi^0 rightarrow gammagamma~gammagamma~e^+e^-gamma$ decays. We normalize to $K_L rightarrow pi^0pi^0pi^0 rightarrow 6gamma$ decays. We find $B(pi^0 rightarrow e^+e^- gamma)/B(pi^0 rightarrow gammagamma)$ $(m_{e^+e^-}$ > 15 MeV/$c^2)$ = $[3.920 pm 0.016(stat) pm 0.036 (syst)] times 10^{-3}$. Using the Mikaelian and Smith prediction for the $e^+e^-$ mass spectrum, we correct the result to the full $e^+e^-$ mass range. The corrected result is $B(pi^0 rightarrow e^+e^- gamma)/B(pi^0 rightarrow gammagamma) = [1.1559 pm 0.0047(stat) pm 0.0106 (syst)]$%. This result is consistent with previous measurements and the uncertainty is a factor of three smaller than any previous measurement.
We present measurements of D -> K0_S pi and D -> K0_L pi branching fractions using 281 pb-1 of psi(3770) data at the CLEO-c experiment. We find that B(D0 -> K0_S pi0) is larger than B(D0 -> K0_L pi0), with an asymmetry of R(D0) = 0.108 +- 0.025 +- 0.024. For B(D+ -> K0_S pi+) and B(D+ -> K0_L pi+), we observe no measurable difference; the asymmetry is R(D+) = 0.022 +- 0.016 +- 0.018. The D0 asymmetry is consistent with the value based on the U-spin prediction A(D0 -> K0 pi0)/A(D0 -> K0bar pi0) = -tan^2(theta_C), where theta_C is the Cabibbo angle.
We study the processes $e^+ e^-to K_S^0 K_L^0 gamma$, $K_S^0 K_L^0 pi^+pi^-gamma$, $K_S^0 K_S^0 pi^+pi^-gamma$, and $K_S^0 K_S^0 K^+K^-gamma$, where the photon is radiated from the initial state, providing cross section measurements for the hadronic states over a continuum of center-of-mass energies. The results are based on 469 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected with the BaBar detector at SLAC. We observe the $phi(1020)$ resonance in the $K_S^0 K_L^0$ final state and measure the product of its electronic width and branching fraction with about 3% uncertainty. We present a measurement of the $e^+ e^-to K_S^0 K_L^0 $ cross section in the energy range from 1.06 to 2.2 GeV and observe the production of a resonance at 1.67 GeV. We present the first measurements of the $e^+ e^-to K_S^0 K_L^0 pi^+pi^-$, $K_S^0 K_S^0 pi^+pi^-$, and $K_S^0 K_S^0 K^+K^-$ cross sections, and study the intermediate resonance structures. We obtain the first observations of jpsi decay to the $K_S^0 K_L^0 pi^+pi^-$, $K_S^0 K_S^0 pi^+pi^-$, and $K_S^0 K_S^0 K^+K^-$ final states.
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