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2.5 Present experimental status

Only decays with an electron positron pair in the final state, decays (2.2) and (2.3), have been observed.

Both have been measured in the same experiment [21]. The decay was measured with a branching ratio of with a lower cut on the electron positron invariant mass of . The measurement is compatible with our calculation including the form factor effects for the relevant region of phase space. This measurement was then extrapolated [21] using the result of [20] to the full phase space. Since we disagree with that calculation, we also disagree with the extrapolation.

In the same experiment, 4 events of the type were observed where both electron positron pair invariant masses were above 140 MeV. This corresponds to a branching ratio for this region of phase space of . This result is compatible within errors with our calculation, see table 2.2. The matrix element of Ref. [20] was again used for the extrapolation to full phase space[21]. Apart from our numerical disagreement, the calculation of Ref. [20] was for the case of non-identical leptons and cannot be applied here.

For the decay an upper limit of exists [22]. This upper limit is compatible with our theoretical result, Eq. (2.23).

The decay has not been looked for so far and should be within the capabilities of DANE given the branching ratio predicted in the previous subsection. This decay proceeds almost entirely through the structure dependent terms and is as such a good test of our calculation.



Carlos E.Piedrafita