Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in $K^+$ Decays

R. Appel, G. S. Atoyan, B. Bassalleck, D. Bergman, N. Cheung, S. Dhawan, H. Do, J. Egger, S. Eilerts, H. Fischer, W. Herold, V. V. Issakov, H. Kaspar, D. E. Kraus, D. M. Lazarus, P. Lichard, J. Lowe, J. Lozano, H. Ma, W. Majid, W. Menzel, S. Pislak, A. A. Poblaguev, P. Rehak, A. Sher, J. A. Thompson, P. Truoel, M. E. Zeller

Published 2000-06-02Version 1

A search for lepton flavor violating decays, \kmmp, \keep, \kpem, \kmep and \pizem, was performed using the data collected in E865 at the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. No signal was found in any of the decay modes. At the 90% confidence level, the branching ratios are less than $3.0\times10^{-9}$, $6.4\times10^{-10}$, $5.2\times10^{-10}$, $5.0\times10^{-10}$ and $3.4\times10^{-9}$ respectively.