A limit on the lepton-family number violating process π0 → μ±e

  • P. Krolak
  • , R. A. Briere
  • , E. Cheu
  • , D. A. Harris
  • , K. S. McFarland
  • , A. Roodman
  • , B. Schwingenheuer
  • , S. V. Somalwar
  • , Y. W. Wah
  • , B. Winstein
  • , R. Winston
  • , K. Arisaka
  • , D. Roberts
  • , W. Slater
  • , M. Weaver
  • , A. R. Barker
  • , E. C. Swallow
  • , G. J. Bock
  • , R. Coleman
  • , M. Crisler
  • J. Enagonio, R. Ford, Y. B. Hsiung, D. A. Jensen, E. Ramberg, R. Tschirhart, E. M. Collins, G. D. Gollin, T. Nakaya, T. Yamanaka, P. Gu, P. Haas, W. P. Hogan, S. K. Kim, J. N. Matthews, S. S. Myung, S. Schnetzer, G. B. Thomson, Y. Zou

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Abstract

A FNAL E799 Collaboration has carried out a search for the lepton-family number violating decay π0 → μ±e using π0's produced from KL → π0π0π0 decays in flight. No events were observed. Assuming that lepton-family number violation is charge independent, the 90% confidence level upper limit on 1 2[BR(π0 → μ+e-) + BR(π0 → μ-e+)] was determined to be 8.6 × 10-9.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)407-410
Number of pages4
JournalPhysics Letters B
Volume320
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 13 1994
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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