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University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Nov 18;89(21):211801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.211801. Epub 2002 Oct 31.
The recent discovery of a large CP violating asymmetry in KL-->pi+pi-e+e- mode has prompted us to seach for the associated KL-->pi 0 pi 0 e+e- decay mode in the KTeV-E799 experiment at Fermilab. In 2.7 x 10(11) K(L) decays, one candidate event has been observed with an expected background of 0.3 event, resulting in an upper limit for the KL-->pi 0 pi 0 e+e- branching ratio of 6.6 x 10(-9) at the 90% C.L.
最近在KL→π⁺π⁻e⁺e⁻模式中发现了一个大的CP破坏不对称性,这促使我们在费米实验室的KTeV - E799实验中寻找相关的KL→π⁰π⁰e⁺e⁻衰变模式。在2.7×10¹¹次K(L)衰变中,观测到了一个候选事件,预期本底为0.3个事件,在90%的置信水平下,KL→π⁰π⁰e⁺e⁻分支比的上限为6.6×10⁻⁹ 。