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Title: Precision measurement of the neutral pion lifetime.
Authors: Larin, I., Zhang, Y., Gasparian, A., Gan, L., Miskimen, R., Khandaker, M., Dale, D., Danagoulian, S., Pasyuk, E., Gao, H., Ahmidouch, A., Ambrozewicz, P., Baturin, V., Burkert, V., Clinton, E., Deur, A., Dolgolenko, A., Dutta, D., Fedotov, G., Feng, J.
Source: Science (pre-March 2025). 5/1/2020, Vol. 368 Issue 6490, p506-509. 4p. 3 Color Photographs.
Subjects: Symmetry, Quantum fluctuations, Neutral pion, Photons, Quantum chromodynamics
Abstract: 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 p0 into two photons (gg), leading to its unusually short lifetime. We precisely measured the decay width G of the p0 → gg process. The differential cross sections for p0 photoproduction at forward angles were measured on two targets, carbon-12 and silicon-28, yielding G(p0 → gg) = 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 G(p0 → gg) = 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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  Data: 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 p0 into two photons (gg), leading to its unusually short lifetime. We precisely measured the decay width G of the p0 → gg process. The differential cross sections for p0 photoproduction at forward angles were measured on two targets, carbon-12 and silicon-28, yielding G(p0 → gg) = 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 G(p0 → gg) = 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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