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A Notation

 

The notation for phase space is the one without the factors of . For the decay rate of a particle with four momentum p into n particles with momenta this is

We use a covariant normalization of one-particle states,

together with the spinor normalization

The kinematical function is defined as

We take the standard model in the current current form, i.e., we neglect the momentum dependence of the W-propagator. The currents used in the text are :

The numerical values used in the programs are the physical masses for the particles as given by the Particle Data Group [3]. In addition we have used the values for the decay constants derived from the most recent measured charged pion and kaon semileptonic decay rates[3,26] :

We do not need values for the quark masses. For the processes considered in this report we can always use the lowest order relations to rewrite them in terms of the pseudoscalar meson masses (see Ref. [2]). For the KM matrix element we used the central value of Ref. [3]. The numerical values for the are those given in table 1 in Ref. [2].

The number of events quoted for DANE are based on a luminosity of , which is equivalent [1] to an annual rate of tagged (1 year = assumed).

Whenever we quote a branching ratio for a semileptonic decay, it stands for the branching ratio of the corresponding decay, e.g.,

We use the Condon-Shortley phase conventions throughout.



Carlos E.Piedrafita