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1.4 Previous experiments

The PDG uses data from two experiments [4,7], both of which have been sensitive mainly to the SD term in (1.15). In [7], 56 events with MeV, MeV and have been identified, whereas the later experiment [4] has collected 51 events with MeV, MeV and . In these kinematical regions, background from is absent because MeV. The combined result of both experiments is gif [4]

 

For SD, the bound

 

has been obtained from a sample of electrons with energies 220 MeV MeV [4]. Using (1.21,1.22), the result (1.28) leads to

 

The bound (1.29) on the other hand implies [4]

 

from where one concludes [4] that is outside the range to ,

 

As we already mentioned, the interference terms INT in are small and can hardly ever be measured. As a result of this, the amplitudes A,V and the ratio determined from are subject to the ambiguities (1.25), (1.27).

Here, the interference terms INT are nonnegligible in appropriate regions of phase space (see Figs. (1.1,1.2)). Therefore, this decay allows one in principle to pin down V and A. The PDG uses data from two experiments [5,8]. In [5], the momentum spectrum of the muon was measured in the region (1.20). In total SD events have been found with 216 MeV/c 230 MeV/c and MeV, which leads to

 

In order to identify the effect of the SD terms, the region 120 MeV/c 150 MeV/c was searched. Here, the background from decays was very serious. The authors found 142 candidates and conclude that

 

The result (1.33) is consistent with (1.30), and the bound (1.34) is worse than the result (1.31) obtained from . The branching ratios which follow [5] from (1.33,1.34) are displayed in table 1.2, where we also show the results [7,4]. The entry SD+INT for is based on additional constraints from [5].

 
Table 1.2: Measured branching ratios . The data are from [7,4], the data from [5,8]. The last column corresponds [5] to the cut (1.20).  



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