Phys. Rev. Lett.
99,
051804
(2007)
[5 pages]
Measurements of the Decay KL→e+e-γ
E. Abouzaid et al.
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E. Abouzaid4, M. Arenton10, A. R. Barker5,*, L. Bellantoni7, E. Blucher4, G. J. Bock7, E. Cheu1, R. Coleman7, M. D. Corcoran9, B. Cox10, A. R. Erwin11, A. Glazov4, A. Golossanov10, Y. B. Hsiung7, D. A. Jensen7, R. Kessler4, H. G. E. Kobrak3, K. Kotera8, J. LaDue5, A. Ledovskoy10, P. L. McBride7, E. Monnier4,†, H. Nguyen7, R. Niclasen5, E. J. Ramberg7, R. E. Ray7, M. Ronquest10, 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. J. Wilking5,‡, R. Winston4, E. T. Worcester4, T. Yamanaka8, and E. D. Zimmerman5
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 23 February 2007; published 3 August 2007
The E799-II (KTeV) experiment at Fermilab has collected 83 262 KL→e+e-γ(γ) events above a background of 79 events. We measure a decay width, normalized to the KL→π0π0πD0 (π0→γγ, π0→γγ, πD0→e+e-γ(γ)) decay width, of Γ(KL→e+e-γ(γ))/Γ(KL→π0π0πD0)=(1.3302±0.0046stat±0.0102syst)×10-3. We also measure parameters of two KLγ*γ form factor models. In the Bergström-Massó-Singer parametrization, we find CαK*=-0.517±0.030stat±0.022syst. We separately fit for the first parameter of the D’Ambrosio-Isidori-Portolés model and find αDIP=-1.729±0.043stat±0.028syst.
© 2007 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.051804
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.051804
*Deceased. †Permanent address: C.P.P. Marseille/C.N.R.S., France. ‡To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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