1. Measurements of charged kaon semileptonic decay branching fractions K±→π0μ±ν and K±→π0e±ν and their ratio
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G. Ruggiero, G.M. Pierazzini, Evgueni Goudzovski, A. Gonidec, Peter Zahariev Hristov, G. Collazuol, Fabrizio Petrucci, V. Falaleev, Manfred Jeitler, G. Anzivino, P. F. Dalpiaz, B. Vallage, Cristina Biino, M. Fiorini, L. Gatignon, M. Scarpa, Mayda Velasco, Leander Litov, Enrico Celeghini, A.I. Zinchenko, A. Dabrowski, M. Sozzi, R. Fantechi, Maulik R. Patel, M. C. Petrucci, E. Monnier, A. Winhart, Jacqueline Batley, T. Fonseca Martin, Cvetan Valeriev Cheshkov, F. Marchetto, Mauro Piccini, S. A. Wotton, Milene Calvetti, L. Widhalm, G. Marel, M. De Beer, U. Moosbrugger, L. DiLella, A. Gianoli, Alan W. Walker, A. Cotta Ramusino, I. Mannelli, Rainer Wanke, H. Dibon, A. Peters, M. Markytan, M. Lenti, Konrad Kleinknecht, E. Marinova, M. Wache, D. T. Madigozhin, G. Neuhofer, Ivan Mikulec, M. Holder, Mauro Raggi, J. Derre, E. Mazzucato, N. A. Molokanova, D.C. Cundy, K. Eppard, Stoyan Stoynev, M. Behler, D. Coward, M. Valdata-Nappi, W. Kubischta, E. C. Swallow, G. Lamanna, M. Szleper, L. Masetti, Roberta Arcidiacono, D. J. Munday, M. Pepe, E. Iacopini, S. Giudici, Luca Fiorini, J. B. Cheze, B. Renk, G. Bocquet, E. Imbergamo, S. Balev, M. Martini, P. L. Frabetti, P. Rubin, Simone Bifani, P. Cenci, C. Morales, A. Michetti, Nicola Cabibbo, V. Kozhuharov, C. Lazzeroni, M. Savrie, M. Ziolkowski, V. Kekelidze, M. Shieh, H. D. Wahl, M. Fidecaro, B. Peyaud, A. Ceccucci, B. Bloch-Devaux, A. A. Maier, Andrea Bizzeti, F. Martelli, Nicolo Cartiglia, M. Veltri, S. Goy Lopez, A. Norton, Roland Winston, P. Marouelli, W. Baldini, I. Polenkevich, M. D. Wood, N. Doble, Mark Slater, F. Costantini, C. Damiani, C. Cerri, and Marco Clemencic
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semileptonic kaon decays, CKM matrix ,Semileptonic decay ,Particle physics ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,kaon decay ,BRANCHING FRACTION ,Branching (polymer chemistry) ,NO ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,mesoni K ,Nuclear physics ,decadimenti ,MONTE-CARLO ,RADIATIVE-CORRECTIONS ,PHOTOS ,Pi ,Kaon decays ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,Physics ,Science & Technology ,Unitarity ,Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix ,PHYSICS, PARTICLES & FIELDS ,semileptonic decay ,semileptonic kaon decays ,CKM matrix ,Physical Sciences - Abstract
Measured ratios of decay rates for Ke3/K2\pi, K\mu3/K2\pi and K\mu3/Ke3 are presented. These measurements are based on K^+- decays collected in a dedicated run in 2003 by the NA48/2 experiment at CERN. The results obtained are Ke3/K2\pi = 0.2470 +/- 0.0009 (stat) +/- 0.0004 (syst) and K\mu3/K2\pi = 0.1637 +/- 0.0006 (stat) +/- 0.0003 (syst). Using the PDG average for the K^+- -> \pi^+-\pi^0 normalisation mode, both values are found to be larger than the current values given by the Particle Data Book and lead to a larger magnitude of the |V_{us}| CKM element than previously accepted. When combined with the latest Particle Data Book value of |V_{ud}|, the result is in agreement with unitarity of the CKM matrix. In addition, a new measured value of K\mu3/Ke3 = 0.663 +/- 0.003(stat) +/- 0.001(syst) is compared to the semi-empirical predictions based on the latest form factor measurements., Comment: 20 pages, 5 tables, 10 figures. Published in European Physical Journal C 50 2 (2007), contains erratum submitted to European Physical Journal C
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- 2007