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As neutrino long baseline experiments enter a new domain of precision, the careful study of systematic errors due to poor knowledge of production cross sections for pions and kaons require more dedicated measurements for precise neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 L. S. Esposito

Searches for lepton number violating $K^+\to\pi^-e^+e^+$ and $K^+\to\pi^-\pi^0e^+e^+$ decays have been performed using the complete dataset collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2016-2018. Upper limits of $5.3\times 10^{-11}$ and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-05-18 NA62 collaboration

The RICH detector of the NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is required to suppress $\mu^+$ contamination in $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar\nu$ candidate events by a factor at least 100 between 15 and 35 GeV/c momentum, to measure the pion arrival time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-27 Andrea Bizzeti

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 NA61/SHINE experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study properties of the onset of deconfinement. It also to performs precise hadron production measurements for the neutrino and cosmic rays…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Antoni Aduszkiewicz

The two kaon factories, KOTO and NA62, are at the cutting edge of the intensity frontier, with an unprecedented numbers of long lived and charged Kaons, ~ 10^{13}, being measured and analyzed. These experiments have currently a unique…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-12 Stefania Gori , Gilad Perez , Kohsaku Tobioka

The NA48/2 result, based on the data collected during the 2003 run, on direct CP violation in $K^{\pm}\to\pi^{\pm}\pi^0\pi^0$ decay is presented. The main goal of the experiment is to reach a sensitivity at level of $10^{-4}$ in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Lamanna

Rare kaon decays are excellent probes of light, new weakly-coupled particles. If such particles $X$ couple preferentially to muons, they can be produced in $K\to \mu \nu X$ decays. In this letter we evaluate the future sensitivity for this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-11 Gordan Krnjaic , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Diego Redigolo , Kohsaku Tobioka

The high-intensity beams provided by the CERN SPS in a large range of energies offer a unique opportunity to investigate the region of the QCD phase diagram at high baryochemical potential. The NA60+ experiment, proposed for taking data…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-08-03 Roberta Arnaldi

NA61/SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) is a multi-purpose experimental facility to study hadron production in hadron-proton, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. It recorded the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-03 N. Abgrall , O. Andreeva , A. Aduszkiewicz , Y. Ali , T. Anticic , N. Antoniou , B. Baatar , F. Bay , A. Blondel , J. Blumer , M. Bogomilov , M. Bogusz , A. Bravar , J. Brzychczyk , S. A. Bunyatov , P. Christakoglou , T. Czopowicz , N. Davis , S. Debieux , H. Dembinski , F. Diakonos , S. DiLuise , W. Dominik , T. Drozhzhova , J. Dumarchez , K. Dynowski , R. Engel , I. Efthymiopoulos , A. Ereditato , A. Fabich , G. A. Feofilov , Z. Fodor , A. Fulop , M. Gazdzicki , M. Golubeva , K. Grebieszkow , A. Grzeszczuk , F. Guber , A. Haesler , T. Hasegawa , M. Hierholzer , R. Idczak , S. Igolkin , A. Ivashkin , D. Jokovic , K. Kadija , A. Kapoyannis , E. Kaptur , D. Kielczewska , M. Kirejczyk , J. Kisiel , T. Kiss , S. Kleinfelder , T. Kobayashi , V. I. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , V. P. Kondratiev , A. Korzenev , P. Koversarski , S. Kowalski , A. Krasnoperov , A. Kurepin , D. Larsen , A. Laszlo , V. V. Lyubushkin , M. Mackowiak-Pawlowska , Z. Majka , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , D. Maletic , D. Manglunki , D. Manic , A. Marchionni , A. Marcinek , V. Marin , K. Marton , H. -J. Mathes , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , M. Messina , St. Mrowczynski , S. Murphy , T. Nakadaira , M. Nirkko , K. Nishikawa , T. Palczewski , G. Palla , A. D. Panagiotou , T. Paul , W. Peryt , O. Petukhov , C. Pistillo , R. Planeta , J. Pluta , B. A. Popov , M. Posiadala , S. Pulawski , J. Puzovic , W. Rauch , M. Ravonel , A. Redij , R. Renfordt , E. Richter-Was , A. Robert , D. Rohrich , E. Rondio , B. Rossi , M. Roth , A. Rubbia , A. Rustamov , M. Rybczynski , A. Sadovsky , K. Sakashita , M. Savic , K. Schmidt , T. Sekiguchi , P. Seyboth , D. Sgalaberna , M. Shibata , R. Sipos , E. Skrzypczak , M. Slodkowski , Z. Sosin , P. Staszel , G. Stefanek , J. Stepaniak , H. Stroebele , T. Susa , M. Szuba , M. Tada , V. Tereshchenko , T. Tolyhi , R. Tsenov , L. Turko , R. Ulrich , M. Unger , M. Vassiliou , D. Veberic , V. V. Vechernin , G. Vesztergombi , L. Vinogradov , A. Wilczek , Z. Wlodarczyk , A. Wojtaszek-Szwarz , O. Wyszynski , L. Zambelli , W. Zipper

The KOTO experiment at the J-PARC research facility in Tokai, Japan aims to observe and measure the rare decay of the neutral kaon, $K_L^0 \rightarrow \pi^0 \nu \bar{\nu}$. This decay has a Standard Model (SM) predicted branching ratio (BR)…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-18 Melissa A. Hutcheson

A search for heavy neutral lepton production in $K^+$ decays using a data sample collected with a minimum bias trigger by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2015 is reported. Upper limits at the $10^{-7}$ to $10^{-6}$ level are established on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-01 NA62 collaboration

Measured ratios of decay rates for Ke3/K2\pi, K\mu3/K2\pi and K\mu3/Ke3 are presented. These measurements are based on K^+- decays collected in a dedicated run in 2003 by the NA48/2 experiment at CERN. The results obtained are Ke3/K2\pi =…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 J. R. Batley , NA48/2 collaboration

NA61/SHINE is an experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The main goals of the experiment are the search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter and the study of the properties of the onset of deconfinement. To reach…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-01-11 Oleksandra Panova , Maciej Lewicki

In the recent year many new results from kaon decays have been reported from both the NA48 experiment at CERN and the KTeV experiment at Fermilab. Both experiments have new and improved measurements of the parameter Re(epsilon'/epsilon) of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Rainer Wanke

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

NA61/SHINE is a multipurpose fixed-target experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The main goals of the NA61/SHINE strong interaction program are to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter as well as to study the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-02-20 P. Podlaski

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS is a multipurpose fixed-target spectrometer for charged and neutral hadron measurements. Its research program includes studies of strong interactions as well as reference measurements for neutrino…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-07-08 Antoni Marcinek

Improved branching ratios were measured for the $K_L \to 3 \pi^0 $ decay in a neutral beam at the CERN SPS with the NA31 detector: $\Gamma (K_L \to 3 \pi^0) / \Gamma (K_L \to \pi^+ \pi^- \pi^0) = 1.611 \pm 0.037$ and $\Gamma (K_L \to 3…