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Observation of Direct CP Violation in KS,L to ππDecays

KTeV Collaboration

hep-exarXiv:hep-ex/9905060

Abstract

We have compared the decay rates of KL and KS to π+ π- and π0 π0 final states using a subset of the data from the KTeV experiment (E832) at Fermilab. We find that the direct-CP-violation parameter Re(ε'/ε) is equal to (28.0 3.0 (stat) 2.8 (syst)) × 10-4. This result definitively establishes the existence of CP violation in a decay process.

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