Phys. Rev. Lett.
93,
181802
(2004)
[4 pages]
A Determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Parameter |Vus|_ Using KL Decays
T. Alexopoulos et al. KTeV Collaboration
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T. Alexopoulos11, M. Arenton10, R. F. Barbosa7,*, A. R. Barker5,†, L. Bellantoni7, A. Bellavance9, E. Blucher4, G. J. Bock7, E. Cheu1, S. Childress7, R. Coleman7, M. D. Corcoran9, B. Cox10, A. R. Erwin11, R. Ford7, A. Glazov4, A. Golossanov10, J. Graham4, J. Hamm1, K. Hanagaki8, Y. B. Hsiung7, H. Huang5, V. Jejer10, D. A. Jensen7, R. Kessler4, H. G. E. Kobrak3, K. Kotera8, J. LaDue5, A. Ledovskoy10, P. L. McBride7, E. Monnier4,‡, K. S. Nelson10, H. Nguyen7, R. Niclasen5, V. Prasad4, X. R. Qi7, E. J. Ramberg7, R. E. Ray7, M. Ronquest10, E. Santos7,§, P. Shanahan7, J. Shields10, W. Slater2, D. Smith10, N. Solomey4, E. C. Swallow4,6, P. A. Toale5, R. Tschirhart7, Y. W. Wah4, J. Wang1, H. B. White7, J. Whitmore7, M. Wilking5, B. Winstein4, R. Winston4, E. T. Worcester4, T. Yamanaka8, and E. D. Zimmerman5 (KTeV Collaboration)
1University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA 2University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA 3University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA 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 10The Department of Physics and Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, USA 11University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Received 1 June 2004; published 25 October 2004
We present a determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa parameter |Vus| based on new measurements of the six largest KL branching fractions and semileptonic form factors by the KTeV (E832) experiment at Fermilab. We find |Vus|=0.2252±0.0008KTeV±0.0021ext, where the errors are from KTeV measurements and from external sources. We also use the measured branching fractions to determine the CP violation parameter |η+-|=(2.228±0.005KTeV±0.009ext)×10-3.
© 2004 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.181802
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.181802
PACS:
12.15.Hh, 13.20.Eb, 13.25.Es
*Permanent address: University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. †Deceased. ‡Permanent address: C.P.P. Marseille/C.N.R.S., France. §Permanent address: University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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