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Recent results from NA48/2 and NA62 experiments at CERN

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2017-01-25 v1

Abstract

The NA48/2 and NA62-RK\text{NA62}\text{-}{\text{R}_\text{K}} experiments at the CERN SPS collected a large sample of charged kaon decays in flight. NA62-RK\text{NA62}\text{-}{\text{R}_\text{K}} was running in 2007-08 with a highly efficient minimum bias trigger for decays into electrons. A preliminary measurement of the electromagnetic transition form factor slope of the π0\pi^0 from 1.05×1061.05\times 10^{6} fully reconstructed π0\pi^0 Dalitz decays is presented. The obtained value a=(3.70±0.53stat±0.36syst)×102a = (3.70 \pm 0.53_\text{stat} \pm 0.36_\text{syst})\times 10^{-2} represents a 5.8σ5.8\sigma observation of a non-zero slope in the time-like region of momentum transfer. An upper limit on the rate of a lepton number violating decay K±πμ±μ±K^\pm\to\pi^\mp\mu^\pm\mu^\pm is reported from 1.6×1011K±\sim 1.6\times 10^{11} K^\pm decays at NA48/2 in 2003-04: B<8.6×1011\mathcal{B} < 8.6\times 10^{-11} at 90%90 \% CL. Searches for heavy sterile neutrino N4N_4 and inflaton χ\chi resonances in K±πμμK^\pm\to\pi\mu\mu decays are reported. No signal is observed and upper limits on the products B(K±μ±N4)B(N4πμ±)\mathcal{B}(K^\pm\to\mu^\pm N_4)\mathcal{B}(N_4\to\pi^\mp\mu^\pm) and B(K±π±χ)B(χμ+μ)\mathcal{B}(K^\pm\to\pi^\pm \chi)\mathcal{B}(\chi\to\mu^+\mu^-) are set in the range 101010910^{-10}-10^{-9} for resonance lifetimes up to 100 ps100~\text{ps}. The result of a search for dark photon with the same sample of decays is also reported. In the absence of observed signal, the limits on the mixing parameter ε2\varepsilon^2 in the range 970 MeV/c29-70~\text{MeV/c}^{2} are improved.

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@article{arxiv.1701.06979,
  title  = {Recent results from NA48/2 and NA62 experiments at CERN},
  author = {Nicolas Lurkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.06979},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages, 6 figures, talk given at HQL 2016, Blacksburg, 22-27 May 2016