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Searches for lepton flavour and lepton number violation in kaon decays by the NA48/2 and NA62 experiments at CERN are presented. A precision measurement of the helicity-suppressed ratio RK of the K --> e nu and K --> mu nu decay rates has…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-11-14 Evgueni Goudzovski

The NA62 experiment at CERN collected a large sample of K+ --> enu decays during a dedicated run in 2007, aiming at a precise test of lepton universality by measurement of the helicity suppressed ratio RK = BR(K+ --> enu)/BR(K+ --> munu). A…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-05-10 Evgueni Goudzovski

The main aim of the NA62 experiment at CERN is to study the rare $K^+ \rightarrow \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$ decay and measure its Branching Ratio (BR) with $10%$ precision. Due to its theoretical precision, this decay is an excellent probe to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-25 Angela Romano

Rare Kaon decays provide sensitive probes of short distance physics. Among the most promising modes are the K+ --> pi+ nu anti-nu and K(L) --> pi0 nu anti-nu modes due to their theoretical cleanness and the dedicated experiments, NA62 and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Emmanuel Stamou

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

The NA62 experiment reports an investigation of the $K^+\rightarrow\pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$ mode from a sample of $K^+$ decays collected in 2017 at the CERN SPS. The experiment has achieved a single event sensitivity of $(0.389\pm…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-02 NA62 Collaboration

A precision test of lepton universality by measurement of the ratio RK of K-->e nu to K-->mu nu decay rates was performed using a sample of 59963 K-->e nu candidates with 8.8% background contamination collected by the CERN NA62 experiment.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-04-22 Evgueni Goudzovski

Meson decays offer a good opportunity to probe new physics. The rare kaon decay $K^+ \rightarrow \pi^+ \nu\bar{\nu}$ is one of the cleanest of them and, for this reason, is rather sensitive to new physics, in particular, vector mediators.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-09 Téssio B. de Melo , Sergey Kovalenko , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , C. Siqueira , Yoxara S. Villamizar

The ratio $R_K = \Gamma(K^{\pm}\to e^{\pm}\nu(\gamma)) / \Gamma(K^{\pm}\to\mu^{\pm}\nu(\gamma))$ provides a powerful probe of the structure of weak interactions. It is calculated with very high precision within the Standard Model, but…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-04-30 Evgueni Goudzovski

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 decay $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$, with a very precisely predicted branching ratio of less than $10^{-10}$, is one of the best candidates to reveal indirect effects of new physics at the highest mass scales. The NA62 experiment at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-22 Roberta Volpe

The main purpose of the NA62 experiment is to measure the branching ratio of the (ultra) rare decay $K+ \rightarrow {\pi}+{\nu}\bar{\nu}$ with the precision of 10% collecting about 100 events with the Standard Model branching fraction in 3…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-03-23 Dario Soldi

The experimental status of the $K \to \pi \nu \bar{\nu}$ search is presented. The $K \to \pi \nu \bar{\nu}$ decay is sensitive to New Physics because it is theoretically pristine and highly suppressed. The $K_L^0 \to \pi^0 \nu \bar{\nu}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-08-04 Chieh Lin

We review some recent theoretical results on rare kaon decays. Particular attention is devoted to find Standard Model tests. This is theoretically easy in $K\to \pi \nu \bar{\nu}$, while a careful study of the long distance contributions is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Giancarlo D'Ambrosio

The decay $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$ is highly suppressed in the Standard Model (SM), while its rate can be predicted with minimal theoretical uncertainty. The branching ratio (BR) for this decay is thus a sensitive probe of the flavor…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-16 Matthew Moulson

The ultra-rare decay $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar\nu$ is a golden mode in flavor physics. The Standard Model prediction for its branching ratio is below $10^{-10}$. This decay mode is highly sensitive to new physics models at mass scales up to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-08 Xiafei Chang , for the NA62 Collaboration

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

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

$K\rightarrow \pi\nu \bar\nu$ is one of the theoretically cleanest meson decay where to look for indirect effects of new physics complementary to LHC searches. The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is designed to measure the branching ratio of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-03-27 Silvia Martellotti

The NA62 experiment reports the branching ratio measurement BR$(K^+ \rightarrow \pi^+ \nu\bar{\nu}) = (10.6^{+4.0}_{-3.4} |_{\rm stat} \pm 0.9_{\rm syst}) \times 10 ^{-11}$ at 68% CL, based on the observation of 20 signal candidates with an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-07-07 NA62 Collaboration