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Search for lepton flavor violation in K+ decays into a charged pion and two leptons
R Appel1, G S Atoyan, B Bassalleck
1Physics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA.
Physical Review Letters
|September 27, 2000
Abstract:
A search for lepton flavor violating decays, K+ --> mu+ mu+ pi-, K+ --> e+ e+ pi-, K+ --> pi+ e+ mu-, K+ --> mu+ e+ pi-, and pi0 --> e+ mu-, was performed using the data collected in Experiment E865 at the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. No signal was found in any of the decay modes. At the 90% confidence level, the branching ratios are less than 3.0x10(-9), 6.4x10(-10), 5. 2x10(-10), 5.0x10(-10), and 3.4x10(-9), respectively.