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Study of the K- -> mu- nu pi0 decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

The decay Kμνˉπ0K^{-} \to \mu^{-} \bar{\nu} \pi^{0} has been studied using in-flight decays detected with ``ISTRA+'' setup operating in the 25 GeV negative secondary beam of the U-70 PS. About 112K events were used for the analysis. The λ+\lambda_{+} and λ0\lambda_{0} slope parameters of the decay formfactors f+(t)f_{+}(t), f0(t)f_{0}(t) have been measured : λ+=0.0321±0.004\lambda_{+}= 0.0321 \pm 0.004(stat) ±0.002\pm 0.002(syst) λ0=0.0209±0.004\lambda_{0}= 0.0209 \pm 0.004(stat) ±0.002\pm 0.002(syst); the correlation dλ0/dλ+=0.46d \lambda_{0}/d \lambda_{+}=-0.46 The limits on the possible tensor and scalar couplings have been derived: fT/f+(0)=0.021±0.028f_{T}/f_{+}(0)=-0.021 \pm 0.028(stat) ±0.014\pm 0.014(theory); fS/f+(0)=0.004±0.005f_{S}/f_{+}(0)=0.004 \pm 0.005(stat) ±0.005\pm 0.005(theory)

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0202061,
  title  = {Study of the K- -> mu- nu pi0 decay},
  author = {I. Ajinenko and S. Akimenko and G. Britvich and I. Britvich and K. Datsko and A. Filin and A. Inyakin and A. Konstantinov and V. Konstantinov and I. Korolkov and V. Leontiev and V. Novikov and V. Obraztsov and V. Polyakov and V. Romanovsky and V. Shelikhov and N. Smirnov and M. Soldatov and O. Tchikilev and E. Usenko and M. Vasiliev and E. Vlasov and V. Yakimchuk and O. Yushchenko and V. Bolotov and S. Laptev and V. Lebedev and A. Pastsjak and A. Polyarush and R. Sirodeev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0202061},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages, Latex, 5 Postscript figures