Measurement of the<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:msup><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:mo>→</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi>π</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:msup><mml:mi>μ</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo></mml:msup><mml:msub><mml:mi>ν</mml:mi><mml:mi>μ</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mi>γ</mml:mi></mml:math>branching ratio

S. S. Adler, A. O. Bazarko, P. C. Bergbusch, E. W. Blackmore, D. Bryman, S. Chen, I-H. Chiang, M. Diwan, J. S. Frank, Takeshi Fujiwara

Abstract

A measurement of the decay K+ -> pi0 mu+ nu_mu gamma has been performed with the E787 detector at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Forty events were observed in the signal region with the background expectation of (16.5 +- 2.7) events. The branching ratio was measured to be (1.58 +- 0.46(stat.) +- 0.08(syst.)) x 10^{-5}} in the kinematic region Eg >30 MeV and theta_{mu gamma} > 20degree, where Eg is the energy of the emitted photon and theta_{mu gamma} is the angle between the muon and the photon in the K+ rest frame. The results were consistent with theoretical predictions.

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