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The NA62 experiment at CERN aims to use rare kaon decays to search for new phenomena beyond the Standard Model. During the current short term phase (data taking completed in years 2007-8), the ratio $R_K = \Gamma(K^+ \rightarrow e \nu_e…
We discuss the possibility of performing precise tests of $\mu/e$ universality in $B \to\pi \ell^+\ell^-$ decays. We show that in wide regions of the dilepton invariant mass spectrum the ratio between muonic and electronic decay widths can…
We evaluate the branching ratios for the decays $K\rightarrow \pi\pi\pi e\nu$ at leading order in chiral perturbation theory and give an isospin relation for the decay rates.
The branching ratios of the measured decay $K_L\to\pi^+\pi^-e^+e^-$ and of the still unmeasured decay $K^+\to\pi^+\pi^0e^+e^-$ are calculated to next-to-leading order in Chiral Perturbation Theory (CHPT). Recent experimental results are…
An investigation is performed of all non-leptonic kaon decays sensitive to the chiral anomaly. Within the framework of chiral perturbation theory, there are two classes of anomalous amplitudes at $O(p^4)$: reducible and direct…
The first observation of the decay $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$ (pnn) has been reported. The E787 experiment presented evidence for this decay, based on the observation of a single clean event from data collected during the 1995 run of the…
The NA48/2 experiment at CERN collected two data samples with minimum bias trigger conditions in 2003 and 2004. A measurement of the rate and dynamic properties of the rare decay $K^\pm\to\pi^\pm\gamma\gamma$ from these data sets based on…
A complete experiment on decay $K_L \to l^+ l^-$ will not only consist of measurement of the decay rates but also lepton polarization etc. These additional observations will yield tests of CP invariance in these decays. In $K_L$ and $K_S$…
The Standard-Model (SM) prediction for the CP-violating quantity $\epsilon_K^{\prime}/\epsilon_K$ deviates from its measured value by 2.8 $\sigma$. It has been shown that this tension can be resolved within the Minimal Supersymmetric…
A recent lattice prediction of $\varepsilon'/\varepsilon$, with a 2.1 $\sigma$ deviation from the experimental value, has triggered several studies of possible contributions from physics beyond the Standard Model. We have recently updated…
At present, the measurements of some observables in $B \to K^* \mu^+\mu^-$ and $B_s^0 \to \phi \mu^+ \mu^-$ decays, and of $R_{K^{(*)}} \equiv {\cal B}(B \to K^{(*)} \mu^+ \mu^-)/{\cal B}(B \to K^{(*)} e^+ e^-)$, are in disagreement with…
We calculate (g-2) of the muon and the QED coupling alpha(M_Z^2), by improving the determination of the hadronic vacuum polarization contributions and their uncertainties. We include the recently re-analysed CMD-2 data on e^+e^- -> pi^+…
The measurements of $V_{us}$ in leptonic $(K_{\mu 2})$ and semileptonic $(K_{l3})$ kaon decays exhibit a $3\sigma$ disagreement, which could originate either from physics beyond the Standard Model or some large unidentified Standard Model…
Recently, we developed a strategy to analyse the B -> pi pi,pi K data. We found that the B -> pi pi measurements can be accommodated in the Standard Model (SM) through large non-factorizable effects. On the other hand, our analysis of the…
We consider the quadratic scalar radius of the pion, $<r^2_{{\rm S},\pi}>$, and the mixed $K-\pi$ scalar radius, $<r^2_{{\rm S},K\pi}>$. With respect to the second, we point out that the more recent (post-1974) experimental results in…
Direct computation of the transition time between neighbor resonances in the standard map, as a function of the perturbation parameter $K$, allows for improving the accuracy of the critical perturbation value up to $K_{cr}-K_g < 2.5\times…
A representation of the amplitude $\gamma^*(q^2)\to\gamma\pi\pi$ is proposed which combines large $N_c$ chiral resonance Lagrangian modelling with general unitarity and analyticity properties. The amplitude is constrained from…
We present a general purpose, parton-level Monte Carlo program for the calculation of the radiative ($L\to\nu\bar\nu l+\gamma$) and rare ($L\to\nu\bar\nu l'+ l^+l^-$) muon and tau decays at NLO in the effective Fermi theory. In the case of…
We analyse the radiative decay $\eta \to \pi^+\pi^- \pi^0\gamma$ in the low--energy expansion of the Standard Model. We employ the notion of ``generalized bremsstrahlung'' to take full advantage of the theoretical and experimental…
Cross-section and angular distributions for hadronic and lepton-pair final states in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies between 189 GeV and 209 GeV, measured with the OPAL detector at LEP, are presented and compared with the…