New measurement of the rate for pion beta decay

WK McFarlane, LB Auerbach, FC Gaille, VL Highland… - Physical Review Letters, 1983 - APS
The conserved-vector-current hypothesis, together with measured nuclear-beta-decay rates,
predicts a value of the rate for the decay π+→ π 0 e+ ν of 0.4027±0.0018 s− 1. With use of a …

Measurement of the rate for pion beta decay

WK McFarlane, LB Auerbach, FC Gaille, VL Highland… - Physical Review D, 1985 - APS
The conserved-vector-current hypothesis, together with measured nuclear beta-decay rates,
predicts a value of the rate for the decay π+→ π 0 e+ ν of 0.4027±0.0018 s− 1. Using a …

Measurement of pion beta-decay branching ratio

RB Bacastow, C Ghesquière, CE Wiegand, RR Larsen - Physical Review, 1965 - APS
The branching ratio for pion beta decay, R=(π+→ π 0+ e++ ν)(π+→ μ++ ν), was measured.
Arrays of lead sheets, scintillators, and spark chambers were used to measure the angular …

A measurement of the π+→ πo+ e++ ν decay rate

P Depommier, J Duclos, J Heintze, K Kleinknecht… - Nuclear Physics B, 1968 - Elsevier
The rate of the decay π+→ π o+ e++ ν (ref.[1]), the beta decay of the π+, has been measured
by means of a counter scheme, in which this process is detected with an efficiency of …

Measurement of the Branching Ratio:

WK Bertram, DI Meyer, RA Carrigan Jr, I Nadelhaft - Physical Review, 1965 - APS
The branching ratio for pion beta decay [R=(π+→ π 0+ e++ ν e)(π+→ μ++ ν μ)] has been
measured with a system of spark chambers and scintillation counters. The high spatial …

Measurement of the Branching Ratio for Pion Beta Decay

R Bacastow, T Elioff, R Larsen, C Wiegand… - Physical Review Letters, 1962 - APS
7j 0+ e++„x~ hereas various model calcula-tions'~'lead to branching ratios for this process of
the order of magnitude 10~, the conserved vector current (CVC) hypothesis'~'allows a …

Revised value for the branching ratio

D Bryman, C Picciotto - Physical Review D, 1975 - APS
Using the current value for the pion lifetime, we have recomputed the branching ratio for π→
e ν decay obtained from the 1963 experiment of Di Capua et al. and find Γ (π→ e ν+ π→ e ν …

Determination of the Axial-Vector Form Factor in the Radiative Decay of the Pion

A Stetz, J Carroll, D Ortendahl, V Perez-Mendez… - Physical Review Letters, 1974 - APS
The branching ratio for the decay π→ e ν γ has been measured in a counter experiment in
which the e+ was detected in a magnetic spectrometer and the γ ray in a lead-glass …

Direct measurement of the lifetime of the neutral pion

HW Atherton, C Bovet, P Coet, R Desalvo, N Doble… - Physics Letters B, 1985 - Elsevier
The lifetime of the neutral pion (π0) has been directly measured. The lifetime has been
found to be τπ0=(0.897±0.022±0.017)× 10− 16 s. The systematic error results from …

Branching ratio of the electronic mode of positive pion decay

HL Anderson, T Fujii, RH Miller, L Tau - Physical Review, 1960 - APS
A new measurement of the branching ratio (π+→ e++ ν)(π+→ μ++ ν) has been completed. A
double-focussing magnetic spectrometer was used to observe the spectra of electrons …