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The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS reports a study of a sample of $4 \times10^{9}$ tagged $\pi^0$ mesons from $K^+ \to \pi^+ \pi^0 (\gamma)$, searching for the decay of the $\pi^0$ to invisible particles. No signal is observed in excess of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-17 NA62 Collaboration

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 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 NA62 experiment at CERN reports a search for the lepton number violating decays $K^+\to\pi^-e^+e^+$ and $K^+\to\pi^-\mu^+\mu^+$ using a data sample collected in 2017. No signals are observed, and upper limits on the branching fractions…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-07-31 NA62 collaboration

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 at CERN aims to make a precision measurement of the ultra-rare decay $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu\overline{\nu}$, and relies on a differential Cherenkov detector (KTAG) to identify charged kaons at an average rate of 50…

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

Rare kaon decays provide unique opportunity to test the Standard Model and probe its possible extensions. The final result on the lepton universality test by measuring the ratio R_K = G(K+- to e+- nu)/G(K+- to mu+- nu) is presented as well…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-12-02 Venelin Kozhuharov

The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is aimed to measure the branching ratio of the ultra-rare decay $K^+\rightarrow\pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$ with 10\% accuracy. The experiment operates with a 75 GeV/c high intensity (750 MHz) secondary beam. A new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-02 S. Kholodenko

The rare decays $\mathrm{K}^+\to \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$ and $\mathrm{K_L}\to \pi^0 \nu \bar{\nu}$ are extremely attractive processes to study flavor physics because they are both exceptionally clean from a theoretical point of view. These…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-21 Michal Zamkovsky

The NA62 experiment at CERN is designed to measure precisely the rare decay $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$. The intensity and energy of the SPS proton beam used to produce the $K^+$, as well as the hermetic detector coverage and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-27 Babette Döbrich

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

Precise measurements of the branching ratios for the $K\to\pi\nu\bar{\nu}$ decays can provide unique constraints on CKM unitarity and, potentially, evidence for new physics. It is important to measure both decay modes,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-16 M. Moulson

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 availability of high-intensity kaon beams at the J-PARC Hadron Experimental Facility and the CERN SPS North Area, together with the abundant forward production of kaons at the LHC, gives rise to unique possibilities for sensitive tests…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-04-29 The KOTO , LHCb , NA62/KLEVER Collaborations , the US Kaon Interest Group

The features of the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS (high intensity setup, trigger system flexibility, high frequency tracking of beam particles, redundant particle identification, and high-efficiency photon vetoes) make NA62 particularly…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-24 Roberta Volpe

A sample of $2.8 \times 10^4$ $K^{+} \to \pi^{+} \mu^{+} \mu^{-}$ candidates with negligible background was collected by the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS in 2017--2018. The model-independent branching fraction is measured to be $(9.15…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-18 NA62 Collaboration

In this short presentation I emphasize the increased importance of kaon flavour physics in the search for new physics (NP) that we should witness in the rest of this decade and in the next decade. The main actors will be the branching…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Andrzej J. Buras

Precise measurements of the branching ratios for the flavor-changing neutral current decays $K\to\pi\nu\bar{\nu}$ can provide unique constraints on CKM unitarity and, potentially, evidence for new physics. It is important to measure both…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-06 Matthew Moulson