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1 Modes, branching ratios and expected fluxes

There are, altogether, five distinct CP conserving modes, which are listed in Tab. 1 together with their branching ratios and the corresponding number of `tagged' events obtainable at DANE, with a luminosity of in a detector with angular coverage such as KLOE. If, for some channel, `tagging' is not needed, the corresponding number of events might be larger. The numbers in Tab. 1 are taken from PDG [1], except that (i) the branching ratio of is the most recent determination with the NA31 detector [2], which is three times more precise than previous experiments, and (ii) for the rare decay , which has not been directly observed yet, the upper and lower entries are, respectively, the results obtained by the FNAL E621 [3] and the CPLEAR [4] collaborations, by studying the time-dependence of - interference. The number of decays expected at DANE is the one implied by the isospin analysis of and experimental data (assuming ), which indicates the branching ratio for this channel [5].

  
Table 1: Experimental branching ratios.



Carlos E.Piedrafita