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Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 182001 (2008) [5 pages]

Determination of the Parity of the Neutral Pion via Its Four-Electron Decay

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E. Abouzaid et al. KTeV Collaboration
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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 π0e+e-e+e-. Our sample, which consists of 30 511 candidate decays, was collected from KLπ0π0π0 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 π0e+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(π0e+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