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

Abstract

We present a measurement of the K-$π$ 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 $I^μ_K$ 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 $λ_+$=\pt(25.6\pm 0.4_{\rm{stat.}}\pm 0.3_{\rm{syst.}}),-3, and $λ_0$=\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 $λ'_+=λ_+$, $λ''_+=2λ^2_+$, $λ'_0=λ_0$ and $λ''_0=(λ^2_0+0.000416)/2$. Our results, together with recent lattice calculations of $f_π$, $f_K$ and $f(0)$, satisfy the Callan-Trieman relation.

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