Precision measurement of the neutral pion lifetime
Precision measurement of the neutral pion lifetime
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精确测量中性π介子寿命
DOI:
10.1126/science.aay6641
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发表时间:
2020
期刊:
影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
Gao, H.
中科院分区:
文献类型:
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作者:
Larin, I.;Zhang, Y.;Gasparian, A.;Gan, L.;Miskimen, R.;Khandaker, M.;Dale, D.;Danagoulian, S.;Pasyuk, E.;Gao, H.
The explicit breaking of the axial symmetry by quantum fluctuations gives rise to the so-called axial anomaly. This phenomenon is solely responsible for the decay of the neutral pion π0into two photons (γγ), leading to its unusually short lifetime. We precisely measured the decay width Γ of theprocess. The differential cross sections for π0photoproduction at forward angles were measured on two targets, carbon-12 and silicon-28, yielding Γ(π0→ γγ)=7.798±0.056(stat.)±0.109(syst.) eV, where stat. denotes the statistical uncertainty and syst. the systematic uncertainty. We combined the results of this and an earlier experiment to generate a weighted average of Γ(π0→ γγ)=7.802±0.052(stat.)±0.105(syst.) eV. Our final result has a total uncertainty of 1.50% and confirms the prediction based on the chiral anomaly in quantum chromodynamics.
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