Experimental study of the decay K{sub L}{sup 0{yields}{pi}0{nu}{nu}}

Journal Article · Thu Apr 01 04:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.072004· OSTI ID:21409453

Ahn, J K; Lee, H S; Lee, S Y ^[1]; Akune, Y; Fujioka, Y; Ishibashi, S; Kobayashi, S; Ogata, R; Shimogawa, T; Sugiyama, A; Suzuki, S; Tsukamoto, T ^[2]; Baranov, V; Kurilin, A S; Kuzmin, E; Moisseenko, A; Perov, S; Podolsky, S; Porokhovoy, S; Stepanenko, Y ^[3]

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1. Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735 (Korea, Republic of)
2. Department of Physics, Saga University, Saga 840-8502 (Japan)
3. Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow Region 141980 (Russian Federation)

The first dedicated search for the rare neutral-kaon decay K{sub L}{sup 0{yields}{pi}0{nu}{nu}} has been carried out in the E391a experiment at the KEK 12-GeV proton synchrotron. The final upper limit of 2.6x10{sup -8} at the 90% confidence level was set on the branching ratio for the decay.

• OSTI ID: 21409453
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 81; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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