Phys. Rev. Lett.
100,
182001
(2008)
[5 pages]
Determination of the Parity of the Neutral Pion via Its Four-Electron Decay
E. Abouzaid et al. KTeV Collaboration
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E. Abouzaid4, M. Arenton11, A. R. Barker5,*, L. Bellantoni7, E. Blucher4, G. J. Bock7, E. Cheu1, R. Coleman7, M. D. Corcoran9, B. Cox11, A. R. Erwin12, C. O. Escobar3, A. Glazov4, A. Golossanov11, R. A. Gomes3, P. Gouffon10, Y. B. Hsiung7, D. A. Jensen7, R. Kessler4, K. Kotera8, A. Ledovskoy11, P. L. McBride7, E. Monnier4,†, H. Nguyen7, R. Niclasen5, D. G. Phillips, II11, E. J. Ramberg7, R. E. Ray7, M. Ronquest11, E. Santos10, W. Slater2, D. Smith11, N. Solomey4, E. C. Swallow4,6, P. A. Toale5,‡,§, R. Tschirhart7, Y. W. Wah4, J. Wang1, H. B. White7, J. Whitmore7, M. J. Wilking5, B. Winstein4, R. Winston4, E. T. Worcester4, T. Yamanaka8, E. D. Zimmerman5,‡,**, and R. F. Zukanovich10 (KTeV Collaboration)
1University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA 2University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA 3Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas 13083-970, Brazil 4The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA 5University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA 6Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126, USA 7Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA 8Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan 9Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA 10Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 05315-970, Brazil 11Department of Physics and Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, USA 12University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Received 15 February 2008; published 6 May 2008
We present a new determination of the parity of the neutral pion via the double Dalitz decay π0→e+e-e+e-. Our sample, which consists of 30 511 candidate decays, was collected from KL→π0π0π0 decays in flight at the KTeV-E799 experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. We confirm the negative π0 parity and place a limit on scalar contributions to the π0→e+e-e+e- decay amplitude of less than 3.3% assuming CPT conservation. The π0γ*γ* form factor is well described by a momentum-dependent model with a slope parameter fit to the final state phase-space distribution. Additionally, we have measured the branching ratio of this mode to be B(π0→e+e-e+e-)=(3.26±0.18)×10-5.
© 2008 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.182001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.182001
PACS:
14.40.Aq, 13.20.Cz, 13.40.Gp
*Deceased. †Permanent address: CPP Marseille/CNRS, France. ‡To whom correspondence should be addressed. §Current address: Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. toale@phys.psu.edu **edz@colorado.edu
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