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NA62, an experiment at the CERN SPS to measure the branching ratio for the decay K+ -> pi+ nu nu-bar with ~10% precision, will observe ~10^13 K+ decays in its fiducial volume, and will thus also be able to carry out a rich program to search…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Matthew Moulson

The NA62 experiment at CERN will measure the branching ratio of the K+ -> pi+ nu nubar decay with a precision of 10%, collecting about 100 events in two years of run. This paper will review the design of the experiment, the strategy for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-08-01 Riccardo Fantechi

NA62 is a fixed-target kaon experiment at the CERN SPS. The recent measurement of the ultra-rare decay $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar\nu$, based on data collected between 2016 and 2024 is reported. The measurement is compatible with previous…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-05 Jonathan Leon Schubert

The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS reports the first detection of a tagged neutrino candidate based on the data collected in 2022. The candidate consists of a $K^+ \rightarrow \mu^+ \nu_\mu$ decay where the charged particles are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-03-07 NA62 Collaboration

The CERN NA62 experiment uses a novel "kaon decay-in-flight" technique to observe $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \overline{\nu}$. The preliminary result based on the analysis of the full 2016 dataset will be presented. In agreement with the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-10-17 Bob Velghe

The NA62 experiment at CERN collected a large sample of charged kaon decays with a highly efficient trigger for decays into electrons in 2007. The kaon beam represents a source of tagged neutral pion decays in vacuum. A measurement of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-01-25 Evgueni Goudzovski

This paper describes a preliminary study of a gaseous Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) system capable of discriminating between kaons and pions at high momenta -- up to 50 GeV/c -- and thus enhancing particle identification at future…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-12 Matthew J. Basso , Valentina M. M. Cairo , Chris Damerell , Dong Su , Ariel G. Schwartzman , Jerry Va'vra

NA62 is a fixed target kaon experiment at the CERN SPS which aims at measuring the branching ratio of the $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$ decay with 10% precision. This ultra-rare kaon decay is theoretically extremely clean and an ideal place to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-07-31 Nicolas Lurkin

We briefly describe the design, construction and performance of the LiF-Tea RICH detector built to identify charged particles in the CLEO III experiment. Excellent pion/kaon separation is demonstrated.

The AMS spectrometer will be installed on the International Space Station in 2005. Among other improvements over the first version of the instrument, a ring imaging Cherenkov detector (RICH) will be added and should open a new window for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Boudoul

The AMS spectrometer will be installed on the International Space Station at the end of 2003. Among other improvements over the first version of the instrument, a ring imaging Cherenkov detector (RICH) will be added which latter should open…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Boudoul , T. Thuillier , A. Barrau , M. Buenerd

A powerful way to test models with feebly interacting particles in the MeV to GeV mass range is through proton beam-dump experiments. In this paper, we compare the current sensitivity of CERN's NA62 experiment running in beam-dump mode with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-21 Babette Döbrich , Jan Jerhot , Karim Massri , Jonathan L. Schubert , Tommaso Spadaro

One of physics goals of the NA61/SHINE experiment is a measurement of hadron production cross sections from proton-Carbon interactions at 31GeV/c for the T2K experiment at J-PARC. A precise knowledge of differential cross sections for pion…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-20 Tomasz Jan Palczewski

The NA62 experiment, proposed to measure the very rare decay K+ to pi+ nu nubar at the CERN SPS with 10% accuracy, aims to collect about 80 events in two years of data taking, keeping background contamination lower than 10%. This paper…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-10-15 Cristina Biino , Monica Pepe

Dark sector models present a rich phenomenology that requires high-intensity beams and precision detectors for thorough exploration. The NA62 experiment has already published several constraints on dark sector models, leveraging proton beam…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-26 F. Arias-Aragón , L. Darmé , R. Gargiulo , G. Grilli di Cortona , V. Kozhuharov , E. Nardi , M. Raggi , T. Spadaro , P. Valente

The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS aims to measure the Branching Ratio of the very rare kaon decay K+ -> pi+ nu nubar collecting O(100) events with a 10% background to make a stringent test of the Standard Model. One of the main backgrounds to…

The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS aims to measure the Branching Ratio of the very rare kaon decay K+ -> pi+ nu nubar collecting O(100) events with a 10% background to make a stringent test of the Standard Model. One of the main backgrounds to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-01-17 V. Bonaiuto , A. Fucci , G. Paoluzzi , A. Salamon , G. Salina , E. Santovetti , F. Sargeni , F. M. Scarfi'

The NA48/2 and NA62-$R_K$ experiments at CERN collected large samples of charged kaon decays in 2003--2004 and 2007, respectively. These samples, collected with different trigger conditions, allow to search for both short and long-living…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-03-14 Karim Massri

Nowadays, several projects of future colliding beam experiments are being considered in the world. Among them are the CEPC (Circular Electron Positron Collider) in China and the FCC (Future Circular Collider) at CERN (Switzerland). To…

The PHENIX muon trigger upgrade adds Level-1 trigger detectors to existing forward muon spectrometers and will enhance the ability of the experiment to pursue a rich program of spin physics in polarized proton collisions at sqrt(s)=500GeV.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 John Lajoie