Phys. Rev. Lett.
83,
917–921
(1999)
Measurement of the Decay KL→π0γγ
A. Alavi-Harati et al. (KTeV Collaboration)
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A. Alavi-Harati12, I. F. Albuquerque10, T. Alexopoulos12, M. Arenton11, K. Arisaka2, S. Averitte10, A. R. Barker5, L. Bellantoni7, A. Bellavance9, J. Belz10, R. Ben-David7, D. R. Bergman10, E. Blucher4, G. J. Bock7, C. Bown4, S. Bright4, E. Cheu1,*, S. Childress7, R. Coleman7, M. D. Corcoran9, G. Corti11, B. Cox11, M. B. Crisler7, A. R. Erwin12, R. Ford7, A. Golossanov11, G. Graham4, J. Graham4, K. Hagan11, E. Halkiadakis10, K. Hanagaki8, S. Hidaka8, Y. B. Hsiung7, V. Jejer11, J. Jennings2, D. A. Jensen7, R. Kessler4, H. G. E. Kobrak3, J. LaDue5, A. Lath10, A. Ledovskoy11, P. L. McBride7, A. P. McManus11, P. Mikelsons5, E. Monnier4,†, T. Nakaya7, U. Nauenberg5, K. S. Nelson11, H. Nguyen7, V. O'Dell7, M. Pang7, R. Pordes7, V. Prasad4, C. Qiao4, B. Quinn4, E. J. Ramberg7, R. E. Ray7, A. Roodman4, M. Sadamoto8, S. Schnetzer10, K. Senyo8, P. Shanahan7, P. S. Shawhan4, W. Slater2, N. Solomey4, S. V. Somalwar10, R. L. Stone10, I. Suzuki8, E. C. Swallow4,6, R. A. Swanson3, S. A. Taegar1, R. J. Tesarek10, G. B. Thomson10, P. A. Toale5, A. Tripathi2, R. Tschirhart7, Y. W. Wah4, J. Wang1, H. B. White7, J. Whitmore7, B. Winstein4, R. Winston4, J.-Y. Wu5, T. Yamanaka8, and E. D. Zimmerman4 (KTeV Collaboration)
1University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
2University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095
3University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
4The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
5University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309
6Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126
7Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510
8Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560, Japan
9Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005
10Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855
11The Department of Physics and the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901
12University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Received 22 February 1999; published in the issue dated 2 August 1999
We report on a new measurement of the decay KL→π0γγ by the KTeV experiment at Fermilab. We determine the KL→π0γγ branching ratio to be (1.68±0.07±0.08)×10-6. Our data show the first evidence for a low-mass γγ signal as predicted by recent O(p6) chiral perturbation calculations which include vector meson exchange contributions. From our data, we extract a value for the effective vector coupling aV = -0.72±0.05±0.06.
© 1999 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.917
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.917
PACS:
13.20.Eb, 11.30.Er, 12.39.Fe, 13.40.Gp
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic address: elliott@physics.arizona.edu †On leave from C.P.P. Marseille/C.N.R.S., France.
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