51. A detailed description of the analysis of the decay of neutral kaons to pi(+)pi(-) in the CPLEAR experiment
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Apostolakis, A., Aslanides, E., Backenstoss, G., Bargassa, P., Behnke, O., Benelli, A., Bertin, V., Blanc, F., Bloch, P., Carlson, P., Carroll, M., Cawley, E., Chertok, M. B., Danielsson, M., Dejardin, M., Derre, J., Ealet, A., Eleftheriadis, C., Fetscher, W., Fidecaro, M., Filipcic, A., Francis, D., Fry, J., Gabathuler, E., Gamet, R., Gerber, H. J., Go, A., Haselden, A., Hayman, P. J., Henry-Couannier, F., Hollander, R. W., Jon-And, K., Kettle, P. R., Kokkas, P., Kreuger, R., Le Gac, R., Leimgruber, F., Mandic, I., Manthos, N., Marel, G., Mikuz, M., Miller, J., Montanet, F., Muller, A., Nakada, T., Pagels, B., Papadopoulos, I., Pavlopoulos, P., Polivka, G., Rickenbach, R., Roberts, B. L., Ruf, T., Sakeliou, L., Schafer, M., Schaller, L. A., Schietinger, T., Schopper, A., Tauscher, L., Thibault, C., Touchard, F., Touramanis, C., Van Eijk, C. W. E., Vlachos, S., Weber, P., Wigger, O., Wolter, M., Yeche, C., Zavrtanik, D., Zimmerman, D., and CPLEAR Collaboration
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s mass difference ,semileptonic decays ,tests ,system ,violation parameter eta(+-) - Abstract
A detailed description is given of the analysis of neutral kaons decaying to pi (+)pi (-), based on the complete set of data collected with the CPLEAR experiment. Using a novel approach involving initially strangeness-tagged K-0 and (K) over bar (0), the time-dependent decay-rate asymmetry has been measured. This asymmetry, resulting from the interference between the K-S and K-L decay amplitudes, has enabled both the magnitude and phase of the CP-violation parameter, eta (+-), to be measured, with a precision comparable to that of the current world-average values. European Physical Journal C
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- 2000