Search for a 33.9 MeV/c(2) neutral particle in pion decay

Phys Rev Lett. 2000 May 1;84(18):4043-6. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4043.

Abstract

The E815 (NuTeV) neutrino experiment has performed a search for a 33. 9 MeV/c(2) weakly interacting neutral particle produced in pion decay. Such a particle may be responsible for an anomaly in the timing distribution of neutrino interactions in the KARMEN experiment. E815 has searched for this particle's decays in an instrumented decay region; no evidence for this particle was found. The search is sensitive to pion branching ratios as low as 10(-13).