Measurements of the form-factors slopes of KL -> pi mu nu decay with the KLOE Detector

Abstract

We present a measurement of the K-$\ddot{I}€$ form-factor parameters for the decay \klpmn. We use 328 pb^{-1} of data collected in 2001 and 2002, corresponding to $\sim$ 1.8 million \semil events. Measurements of semileptonic form factors provide information about the dynamics of the strong interaction and are necessary for evaluation of the phase-space integral $I^{\hat{I}}{¼}_K$ needed to measure the CKM matrix element $|V_{us}|$ for \klpmn decays and to test lepton universality in kaon decays. Using a new parameterization for the vector and scalar form factors we find $\hat{I}{»}_{+}$=\pt(25.6\pm 0.4_{\rm{stat.}}\pm 0.3_{\rm{syst.}}),-3, and $\hat{I}{»}_0$=\pt(14.3\pm 1.7_{\rm{stat.}}\pm 1.1_{\rm{stat.}}),-3,. In the more usual quadratic expansion of the form factor the above result is corresponds to $\hat{I}{»}_{+}^{\prime }=\hat{I}{»}_{+}$, $\hat{I}{»}_{+}^{\prime \prime }=2\hat{I}{»}_{+}^2$, $\hat{I}{»}_0^{\prime }=\hat{I}{»}_0$ and $\hat{I}{»}_0^{\prime \prime }=(\hat{I}{»}_0^2+0.000416)/2$. Our results, together with recent lattice calculations of $f_{\ddot{I}}€$, $f_K$ and $f(0)$, satisfy the Callan-Trieman relation.

15 pages, 6 figures, Contributed paper to Lepton Photon 2007