Improved limit on the branching ratio of K+π+μ+e

A. M. Lee, C. Alliegro, C. Campagnari, V. Chaloupka, P. S. Cooper, J. Egger, H. A. Gordon, N. J. Hadley, W. D. Herold, E. A. Jagel, H. Kaspar, D. M. Lazarus, H. J. Lubatti, P. Rehak, M. E. Zeller, and T. Zhao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 165 – Published 8 January 1990
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Abstract

A search for the lepton-flavor number-violating decay K+π+μ+e has been conducted at the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. No candidates have been found which would be consistent with this decay mode. An upper limit on the branching ratio is placed at 2.6×1010, which can be combined with our previous result to yield an upper limit of 2.1×1010 at the 90% confidence level. A limit on the branching ratio for π0μ+e of 1.6×108 (90% C.L.) is also established.

  • Received 15 September 1989

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.165

©1990 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

A. M. Lee, C. Alliegro, C. Campagnari, V. Chaloupka, P. S. Cooper, J. Egger, H. A. Gordon, N. J. Hadley, W. D. Herold, E. A. Jagel, H. Kaspar, D. M. Lazarus, H. J. Lubatti, P. Rehak, M. E. Zeller, and T. Zhao

  • Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
  • Fermi National Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510
  • Paul Scherrer Institute, Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research, CH-5234 Villigen, Switzerland
  • Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
  • Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511

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Vol. 64, Iss. 2 — 8 January 1990

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