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Recent results from the NA48/2 and NA62 kaon decay-in-flight experiments at CERN are presented. A precision measurement of the helicity-suppressed ratio RK of the K+- to e+- nu and K+- to mu+- nu decay rates has been performed using the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Evgueni Goudzovski

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

The NA62 experiment is a fixed-target experiment at CERN SPS. The main goal of the experiment is to measure the branching ratio of the ultra-rare kaon decay $K^{+}\to\pi^{+}\nu\bar\nu$. The NA62 detector allows also to study other rare kaon…

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

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 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 $K^+\rightarrow \pi^+ \nu \bar \nu$ decay is theoretically one of the cleanest meson decays and so a good place to look for indirect effects of new physics complementary to LHC searches. The NA62 experiment at CERN is designed to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-09 Silvia Martellotti

The Kaon physics program at CERN will be shortly presented, addressing the most recent results from the NA48/2 and NA62 experiments at the CERN SPS and future prospects.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-19 Patrizia Cenci

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

The long-term goal of NA62 is to measure the ultra rare K+/- -> pi+/- nu anti-nu decay with a sensitivity of 10^-12 per event. This is done by using the decay - in - flight technique which allows a signal acceptance of ~10% . The aim is to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-02 Evelina Marinova

Recent results a future prospects of the NA62 experiment at CERN SPS are presented. The NA62 experiment performed the most precise measurement of the ratio $R_K$ of the $K^+\rightarrow e^\pm\nu$ and K^+\rightarrow \mu^\pm\nu$ decay rates…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-12-21 Giuseppe Ruggiero

The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS reports the first search for $K^+ \rightarrow \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$ using the decay-in-flight technique, based on a sample of $1.21\times10^{11}$ $K^+$ decays collected in 2016. The single event…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-03-21 NA62 collaboration

$K\rightarrow \pi\nu \bar\nu$ 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

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

A measurement of the $K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ decay by the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is presented, using data collected in 2021 and 2022. This dataset was recorded, after modifications to the beamline and detectors, at a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-28 NA62 Collaboration

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 NA62 experiment at CERN targets the measurement of the ultra-rare $K^{+} \to \pi^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ decay, and carries out a broad physics programme that includes probes for symmetry violations and searches for exotic particles. Data were…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-03-10 The NA62 Collaboration

Searches for lepton flavour violation and lepton number violation in kaon decays by the NA62 and NA48/2 experiments at CERN are presented. A new measurement of the ratio of charged kaon leptonic decay rates…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-07-05 Giuseppe Ruggiero

The NA48/2 experiment at the CERN SPS carried out data taking in 2003 and 2004. Analysis of the selected data samples of 7,146 $K^\pm\to\pi^\pm e^+e^-$ decay candidates with 0.6% background, 1,164 $K^\pm\to\pi^\pm\gamma\gamma$ candidates…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-04-01 Evgueni Goudzovski