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NA61/SHINE is a multipurpose, fixed-target hadron spectrometer at the CERN SPS. Its research program includes studies of strong interactions as well as reference measurements for neutrino and cosmic-ray physics. A significant advantage of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-12-09 Antoni Marcinek

The NA62 experiment is designed to measure the ultra-rare decay $K^+ \rightarrow \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$ branching ratio with a precision of $\sim 10\%$ at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). The trigger system of NA62 consists in three…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-23 Dario Soldi , Stefano Chiozzi

The precision measurement of $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+} \nu \bar{\nu}$ at the NA62 experiment requires a kaon identification detector to have a time resolution better than 100ps, at least 95% kaon identification efficiency, and a pion…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-19 Jack Sanders

The latest search for the rare kaon decay $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar\nu$ by the NA62 experiment has produced evidence for it with a branching fraction consistent with the prediction of the standard model. The new result implies that in this decay,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-23 Chao-Qiang Geng , Jusak Tandean

A search for the $K^+\to\mu^-\nu e^+e^+$ decay, forbidden within the Standard Model by either lepton number or lepton flavour conservation depending on the flavour of the emitted neutrino, has been performed using the dataset collected by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-21 NA62 collaboration

Recent NA48 results from detailed studies of $K_{L,S}\to \pi^+ \pi^- e^+ e^-$ and $K_S\to\pi^0 \gamma\gamma$ decay modes are presented. The results are based on the data collected with the NA48 detector at the CERN SPS during the 1998-199 9…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Cheshkov

Recent measurements of kaon decays provide new information about CKM unitarity, lepton universality, and discrete symmetries. KLOE-2, the proposed extension of the kaon physics program at Frascati, will extend the world data set on kaon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-03-03 Matthew Moulson

A new apparatus, NA60+, is proposed for measuring muon pairs in the center-of-mass region from 5 to 17 GeV at CERN SPS in various collisional systems from Pb+Pb and down to $p$+Be. The physics scope of the new detector will cover topics…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-06 Alexander Milov

The phenomenology in the neutrino sector requires physics beyond the Standard Model. One possibility is the existence of new massive leptonic states which could be probed at the high intensity machines. The present results on heavy neutral…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-04-22 Venelin Kozhuharov

NA61/SHINE is a fixed target experiment operating at CERN SPS. Its main goals are to search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter and to study the onset of deconfinement. For these goals a scan of the two dimensional phase…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Evgeny Andronov

The NA48/2 and $\text{NA62}\text{-}{\text{R}_\text{K}}$ experiments at the CERN SPS collected a large sample of charged kaon decays in flight. $\text{NA62}\text{-}{\text{R}_\text{K}}$ was running in 2007-08 with a highly efficient minimum…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-01-25 Nicolas Lurkin

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) appear in many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In this study, we investigate to which extent the NA62 experiment at CERN could improve the existing bounds on the HNL mixing angle $|U_e|^2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-10 Jean-Loup Tastet , Evgueni Goudzovski , Inar Timiryasov , Oleg Ruchayskiy

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN has played a pioneering role in the study of heavy-ion collisions since 1986 and nowadays remains central to the exploration of the Quark Gluon Plasma. This document summarizes the present status…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-16 Roberta Arnaldi

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN covers one of the most interesting regions of the phase diagram (T - \mu_{B}) of strongly interacting matter. The study of central Pb+Pb collisions by NA49 indicate that the threshold for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Maja Mackowiak

The PEN Collaboration is conducting a new measurement of the pi+ -> e+ nu branching ratio at the Paul Scherrer Institute, with the goal uncertainty of delta B/B(pie2)=5E-4 or lower. At present, the combined accuracy of all published pie2…

We report relevant results from NA48 experiment at CERN SPS. NA48 was proposed in 1990 \cite{proposal} to study direct CP violation in $K^0\to\pi\pi$ to a level of accuracy sufficient to resolve the inconclusive status left by the previous…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Imbergamo , M. Piccini , M. C. Petrucci

The experimental program for the study of the rare kaon decays, K -> pnn, is summarized. A review of recent results is provided along with a discussion of prospects for the future of this program. The primary focus of the world-wide kaon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-17 S. H. Kettell

The aim of the NA61/SHINE strong interaction programme is to explore the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. The main physics goals are the study of the onset of deconfinement and the search for the critical point of strongly…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-03 Maja Mackowiak-Pawlowska

Recent results on the kaon rare decays measured in NA48 experiment at CERN are presented.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Tulay Cuhadar-Donszelmann

The NA62 experiment at CERN reports searches for $K^+\to\mu^+N$ and $K^+\to\mu^+\nu X$ decays, where $N$ and $X$ are massive invisible particles, using the 2016-2018 data set. The $N$ particle is assumed to be a heavy neutral lepton, and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-04-08 NA62 collaboration