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Measurement of the Dalitz plot slopes of the $K^\pm\to\pi^\pm\pi^+\pi^-$ decay (2007)

Abstract
The distribution of the $K^\pm\to\pi^\pm\pi^+\pi^-$ decays in the Dalitz plot has been measured by the NA48/2 experiment at the CERN SPS with a sample of $4.71\times 10^8$ fully reconstructed events. With the standard Particle Data Group parameterization the following values of the slope parameters were obtained: $g=(-21.134\pm0.014)\%$, $h=(1.848\pm0.039)\%$, $k=(-0.463\pm0.012)\%$. The quality and statistical accuracy of the data have allowed an improvement in precision by more than an order of magnitude, and are such as to warrant a more elaborate theoretical treatment, including pion-pion rescattering, which is in preparation.

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Download http://documents.cern.ch/cgi-bin/setlink?base=preprint&categ=cern&id=phep-2007-002
Repository CERN Document Server (Switzerland)
Keywords Particle Physics - Experimental Results
Language eng