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Rare Kaon Decay Experiments at CERN

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2015-06-17 v1

Abstract

The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS aims to measure the branching ratio of the rare decay K+π+ννˉK^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar\nu with a relative precision of 10\sim10%. To achieve that goal, it is designed to be exposed to 1.2×10131.2\times 10^{13} K+K^+ decays in its fiducial volume. The unprecedented K+K^+ flux will lead to record sensitivities to rare and forbidden decays of K+K^+ and π0\pi^0, including those that violate lepton flavour or lepton number conservation. The expected NA62 performances for lepton flavour conservation and lepton universality tests are discussed. Relevant on-going or recently completed measurements from the K±K^\pm decay data sets collected by earlier kaon experiments at CERN (NA48/2 and NA62-RKR_K) are also presented.

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@article{arxiv.1310.0231,
  title  = {Rare Kaon Decay Experiments at CERN},
  author = {Evgueni Goudzovski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.0231},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Talk given at the 1st Charged Lepton Flavour Conference, Lecce, May 2013

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