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Branching ratio measurement of the decay K(L) --> e(+)e(-)mu(+)mu(-).

Authors :
Alavi-Harati A
Alexopoulos T
Arenton M
Arisaka K
Averitte S
Barbosa RF
Barker AR
Barrio M
Bellantoni L
Bellavance A
Belz J
Ben-David R
Bergman DR
Blucher E
Bock GJ
Bown C
Bright S
Cheu E
Childress S
Coleman R
Corcoran MD
Corti G
Cox B
Crisler MB
Erwin AR
Ford R
Glazov A
Golossanov A
Graham G
Graham J
Hagan K
Halkiadakis E
Hamm J
Hanagaki K
Hidaka S
Hsiung YB
Jejer V
Jensen DA
Kessler R
Kobrak HG
LaDue J
Lath A
Ledovskoy A
McBride PL
Mikelsons P
Monnier E
Nakaya T
Nelson KS
Nguyen H
O'Dell V
Pang M
Pordes R
Prasad V
Quinn B
Qi XR
Ramberg EJ
Ray RE
Roodman A
Sadamoto M
Schnetzer S
Senyo K
Shanahan P
Shawhan PS
Shields J
Slater W
Solomey N
Somalwar SV
Stone RL
Swallow EC
Taegar SA
Tesarek RJ
Thomson GB
Toale PA
Tripathi A
Tschirhart R
Turner SE
Wah YW
Wang J
White HB
Whitmore J
Winstein B
Winston R
Yamanaka T
Zimmerman ED
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2001 Sep 10; Vol. 87 (11), pp. 111802. Date of Electronic Publication: 2001 Aug 22.
Publication Year :
2001

Abstract

We have collected a 43 event sample of the decay K(L)-->e(+)e(-)mu(+)mu(-) with negligible backgrounds and measured its branching ratio to be (2.62+/-0.40+/-0.17)x10(-9). We see no evidence for CP violation in this decay. In addition, we set the 90% confidence upper limit on the combined branching ratios for the lepton flavor violating decays K(L)-->e(+/-)e(+/-)mu(-/+)mu(-/+) at B(K(L)-->e(+/-)e(+/-)mu(-/+)mu(-/+))< or =1.23x10(-10), assuming a uniform phase space distribution.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0031-9007
Volume :
87
Issue :
11
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
11531512
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.111802