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Kaon experiments at CERN: NA48 and NA62

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2020-06-17 v1

Abstract

Searches for violation of lepton flavour universality and lepton number conservation in kaon decays by the NA62 and NA48/2 experiments at CERN, status and future plans of the CERN kaon programme are presented. A precision measurement of the helicity-suppressed ratio RKR_K of the K±e±νK^\pm\to e^\pm\nu and K±μ±νK^\pm\to\mu^\pm\nu decay rates has been performed using the full data set collected by the NA62 experiment in 2007--2008. The result is RK=(2.488±0.010)×105R_K=(2.488\pm0.010)\times10^{-5}, in agreement with the Standard Model expectation. An improved upper limit on the rate of the lepton number violating K±πμ±μ±K^\pm\to\pi^\mp\mu^\pm\mu^\pm decay from the NA48/2 experiment (2003--2004 data set) is presented. Finally, the NA62 project aiming at a measurement of the branching ratio of the ultra-rare decay K+π+ννˉK^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar\nu at 10% precision is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1112.5365,
  title  = {Kaon experiments at CERN: NA48 and NA62},
  author = {Evgueni Goudzovski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5365},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Talk given at PhiPsi 2011 conference (Novosibirsk, Russia, September 2011). To be published in Nucl.Phys.B Proc.Supp

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