Improved measurement of the $π\rightarrow \mbox{e} ν$ branching ratio
hep-ex
/ Authors
A. Aguilar-Arevalo, M. Aoki, M. Blecher, D. I. Britton, D. A. Bryman, D. vom Bruch, S. Chen, J. Comfort, M. Ding, L. Doria
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S. Cuen-Rochin, P. Gumplinger, A. Hussein, Y. Igarashi, S. Ito, S. H. Kettell, L. Kurchaninov, L. S. Littenberg, C. Malbrunot, R. E. Mischke, T. Numao, D. Protopopescu, A. Sher, T. Sullivan, D. Vavilov, K. Yamada
/ Abstract
A new measurement of the branching ratio, $R_{e/μ} =Γ(π^+ \rightarrow \mbox{e}^+ ν+ π^+ \rightarrow \mbox{e}^+ νγ)/ Γ(π^+ \rightarrow μ^+ ν+ π^+ \rightarrow μ^+ νγ)$, resulted in $R_{e/μ}^{exp} = (1.2344 \pm 0.0023 (stat) \pm 0.0019 (syst)) \times 10^{-4}$. This is in agreement with the standard model prediction and improves the test of electron-muon universality to the level of 0.1 %.