Experimental tests of lepton universality in [Formula presented] decay

  • A. Anastassov
  • , S. Blinov
  • , J. E. Duboscq
  • , K. D. Fisher
  • , D. Fujino
  • , R. Fulton
  • , K. K. Gan
  • , T. Hart
  • , K. Honscheid
  • , H. Kagan
  • , R. Kass
  • , J. Lee
  • , M. B. Spencer
  • , M. Sung
  • , A. Undrus
  • , R. Wanke
  • , A. Wolf
  • , M. M. Zoeller
  • , B. Nemati
  • , S. J. Richichi
  • W. R. Ross, P. Skubic, M. Wood, M. Bishai, J. Fast, E. Gerndt, J. W. Hinson, N. Menon, D. H. Miller, E. I. Shibata, I. P.J. Shipsey, M. Yurko, L. Gibbons, S. D. Johnson, Y. Kwon, S. Roberts, E. H. Thorndike, C. P. Jessop, K. Lingel, H. Marsiske, M. L. Perl, S. F. Schaffner, D. Ugolini, R. Wang, X. Zhou, T. E. Coan, V. Fadeyev, I. Korolkov, Y. Maravin, I. Narsky, V. Shelkov, J. Staeck, R. Stroynowski, I. Volobouev, J. Ye, M. Artuso, A. Efimov, F. Frasconi, M. Gao, M. Goldberg, D. He, S. Kopp, G. C. Moneti, R. Mountain, Y. Mukhin, S. Schuh, T. Skwarnicki, S. Stone, G. Viehhauser, X. Xing, J. Bartelt, S. E. Csorna, V. Jain, S. Marka, A. Freyberger, D. Gibaut, R. Godang, K. Kinoshita, I. C. Lai, P. Pomianowski, S. Schrenk, G. Bonvicini, D. Cinabro, R. Greene, L. P. Perera, B. Barish, M. Chadha, S. Chan, G. Eigen, J. S. Miller, C. O’Grady, M. Schmidtler, J. Urheim, A. J. Weinstein, F. Würthwein, D. M. Asner, D. W. Bliss, W. S. Brower, G. Masek, H. P. Paar, M. Sivertz, V. Sharma, J. Gronberg, R. Kutschke, D. J. Lange, S. Menary, R. J. Morrison, H. N. Nelson, T. K. Nelson, C. Qiao, J. D. Richman, D. Roberts, A. Ryd, M. S. Witherell, R. Balest, B. H. Behrens, K. Cho, W. T. Ford, H. Park, P. Rankin, J. Roy, J. G. Smith, J. P. Alexander, C. Bebek, B. E. Berger, K. Berkelman, K. Bloom, D. G. Cassel, H. A. Cho, D. M. Coffman, D. S. Crowcroft, M. Dickson, P. S. Drell, K. M. Ecklund, R. Ehrlich, R. Elia, A. D. Foland, P. Gaidarev, R. S. Galik, B. Gittelman, S. W. Gray, D. L. Hartill, B. K. Heltsley, P. I. Hopman, J. Kandaswamy, N. Katayama, P. C. Kim, D. L. Kreinick, T. Lee, Y. Liu, G. S. Ludwig, J. Masui, J. Mevissen, N. B. Mistry, C. R. Ng, E. Nordberg, M. Ogg, J. R. Patterson, D. Peterson, D. Riley, A. Soffer, C. Ward, M. Athanas, P. Avery, C. D. Jones, M. Lohner, C. Prescott, S. Yang, J. Yelton, J. Zheng, G. Brandenburg, R. A. Briere, Y. S. Gao, D. Y.J. Kim, R. Wilson, H. Yamamoto, T. E. Browder, F. Li, Y. Li, J. L. Rodriguez, T. Bergfeld, B. I. Eisenstein, J. Ernst, G. E. Gladding, G. D. Gollin, R. M. Hans, E. Johnson, I. Karliner, M. A. Marsh, M. Palmer, M. Selen, J. J. Thaler, K. W. Edwards, A. Bellerive, R. Janicek, D. B. MacFarlane, K. W. McLean, P. M. Patel, A. J. Sadoff, R. Ammar, P. Baringer, A. Bean, D. Besson, D. Coppage, C. Darling, R. Davis, N. Hancock, S. Kotov, I. Kravchenko, N. Kwak, S. Anderson, Y. Kubota, M. Lattery, J. J. O’Neill, S. Patton, R. Poling, T. Riehle, V. Savinov, A. Smith, M. S. Alam, S. B. Athar, Z. Ling, A. H. Mahmood, H. Severini, S. Timm, F. Wappler

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Abstract

The branching fractions for [Formula presented] [Formula presented] and [Formula presented] are measured using data collected with the CLEO detector at the CESR [Formula presented] collider: [Formula presented]=0.1776[Formula presented]0.0006[Formula presented]0.0017, [Formula presented]=0.1737[Formula presented]0.0008[Formula presented]0.0018, and [Formula presented]=0.1152[Formula presented]0.0005[Formula presented]0.0012, where the first error is statistical, the second systematic, and [Formula presented] refers to either a charged [Formula presented] or [Formula presented]. Also measured is the [Formula presented] mass, [Formula presented]=(1778.2[Formula presented]1.4) MeV. Lepton universality is affirmed by the relative branching fractions [Formula presented]/[Formula presented]=0.9777[Formula presented]0.0063[Formula presented]0.0087, [Formula presented]/[Formula presented]=0.6484[Formula presented]0.0041[Formula presented]0.0060) and the charged-current gauge coupling-constant ratios [Formula presented]=1.0026[Formula presented]0.0055, [Formula presented]=0.9990[Formula presented]0.0098). The [Formula presented] mass result may be recast as a [Formula presented] neutrino mass limit, [Formula presented]60 MeV at 95% C.L.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2559-2576
Number of pages18
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume55
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1997
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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