Published November 1, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurements of semileptonic KL decay form factors

  • 1. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901 (United States)
  • 3. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)

Description

We present new measurements of KL semileptonic form factors using data collected in 1997 by the KTeV (E832) experiment at Fermilab. The measurements are based on 1.9x106 KL→π±e±ν and 1.5x106 KL→π±μ±ν decays. For f+(t), we measure both a linear and quadratic term: λ+'=(20.64±1.75)x10-3 and λ+''=(3.20±0.69)x10-3. For f0(t), we find λ0=(13.72±1.31)x10-3. These form factors are consistent with K± form factors, suggesting that isospin symmetry breaking effects are small. We use our measured values of the form factors to evaluate the decay phase space integrals, IKe=0.15350±0.00105 and IKμ=0.10165±0.00080, where errors include uncertainties arising from the form factor parametrizations

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
70
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 092007-092007.15
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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Notes
(c) 2004 The American Physical Society
Collaborations
KTeV Collaboration