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The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS aims to measure the branching ratio of the rare decay $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar\nu$ with a relative precision of $\sim10%$. To achieve that goal, it is designed to be exposed to $1.2\times 10^{13}$ $K^+$ decays…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-17 Evgueni Goudzovski

The NA62 experiment at CERN collected a large sample of $K^+\to e^+\nu$ decays during a dedicated run in 2007, which allows a precise test of lepton universality by measurement of the helicity suppressed ratio $R_K = \Gamma(K^+\to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-07-19 Evgueni Goudzovski

NA62 is a fixed target kaon experiment at the CERN SPS which aims at measuring the branching ratio of the $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$ decay with 10% precision. This ultra-rare kaon decay is theoretically extremely clean and an ideal place to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-07-31 Nicolas Lurkin

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 final results of the search for the lepton flavour violating decay $\mu^{+} \rightarrow {\rm e^{+}} \gamma$ based on the full dataset collected by the MEG experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institut in the period 2009--2013 and totalling…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-01 The MEG Collaboration

A sample of 3120 $K^\pm\to\pi^\pm\mu^+\mu^-$ decay candidates with $(3.3\pm0.7)%$ background contamination has been collected by the NA48/2 experiment at the CERN SPS, allowing a detailed study of the decay properties. The branching ratio…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-03-31 J. R. Batley et al.

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

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 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

We present a search for the lepton flavor violating decay B+ --> K+ tau-/+ mu+/- using 383 million B Bbar events collected by the BABAR experiment. The branching fraction for this decay can be substantially enhanced in new physics models.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-04-12 The BABAR Collaboration , B. Aubert et al

The most sensitive experiment to date to search for the muon and electron lepton number violating decay $K^0_L \to \mu^\pm e^\mp$ has detected no events consistent with this process. Based on this result, the 90% confidence level upper…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Ambrose

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

We have searched for the lepton flavor violating decays $\tau^-\to \ell^-\ks$ ($\ell = e {or} \mu$), using a data sample of 281 fb$^{-1}$ collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB $e^+e^-$ asymmetric-energy collider. No evidence for a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Y. Miyazaki

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

The experiment NA62 at CERN collected a large sample of K+- leptonic decays in order to perform precise test of lepton universality, by measuring the helicity suppressed ratio R_K=Gamma(K+- --> e+- nu)/Gamma(K+- --> mu+- nu). The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-06-08 Spasimir Balev

Searches for violation of lepton flavour universality and lepton number conservation in kaon decays by the NA62 and NA48/2 experiments at CERN, status and future plans of the CERN kaon programme are presented. A precision measurement of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-06-17 Evgueni Goudzovski

We search for the flavor-changing neutral current decays D0\to mu+mu- and D0\to e+e-, and for the lepton-flavor violating decays D0\to e\pm mu\mp using 660 fb^-1 of data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e-…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Petrič , M. Starič

We present a search for the lepton-flavour-violating decays $B^+ \to K^+ \tau^\pm \ell^\mp$, with $\ell = (e, \mu)$, using the full data sample of $772 \times 10^6$ $B\overline{B}$ pairs recorded by the Belle detector at the KEKB…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-12 Belle Collaboration , S. Watanuki , G. de Marino , K. Trabelsi , I. Adachi , H. Aihara , D. M. Asner , H. Atmacan , V. Aulchenko , T. Aushev , R. Ayad , V. Babu , Sw. Banerjee , M. Bauer , P. Behera , K. Belous , M. Bessner , V. Bhardwaj , B. Bhuyan , D. Biswas , D. Bodrov , G. Bonvicini , J. Borah , A. Bozek , M. Bračko , P. Branchini , T. E. Browder , A. Budano , M. Campajola , L. Cao , D. Červenkov , M. -C. Chang , B. G. Cheon , K. Chilikin , K. Cho , S. -J. Cho , S. -K. Choi , Y. Choi , S. Choudhury , D. Cinabro , S. Das , G. De Nardo , G. De Pietro , R. Dhamija , F. Di Capua , T. V. Dong , D. Epifanov , T. Ferber , D. Ferlewicz , B. G. Fulsom , R. Garg , V. Gaur , A. Garmash , A. Giri , P. Goldenzweig , E. Graziani , T. Gu , Y. Guan , K. Gudkova , C. Hadjivasiliou , S. Halder , X. Han , T. Hara , K. Hayasaka , H. Hayashii , D. Herrmann , W. -S. Hou , C. -L. Hsu , K. Inami , G. Inguglia , N. Ipsita , A. Ishikawa , R. Itoh , M. Iwasaki , W. W. Jacobs , Q. P. Ji , S. Jia , Y. Jin , K. K. Joo , A. B. Kaliyar , H. Kichimi , C. H. Kim , D. Y. Kim , K. -H. Kim , Y. -K. Kim , K. Kinoshita , P. Kodyš , A. Korobov , S. Korpar , E. Kovalenko , P. Križan , P. Krokovny , T. Kuhr , M. Kumar , K. Kumara , A. Kuzmin , Y. -J. Kwon , J. S. Lange , M. Laurenza , S. C. Lee , P. Lewis , L. K. Li , Y. Li , L. Li Gioi , J. Libby , Y. -R. Lin , D. Liventsev , T. Matsuda , S. K. Maurya , F. Meier , M. Merola , F. Metzner , K. Miyabayashi , R. Mizuk , G. B. Mohanty , M. Nakao , L. Nayak , M. Nayak , N. K. Nisar , S. Nishida , H. Ono , P. Oskin , G. Pakhlova , S. Pardi , H. Park , J. Park , S. -H. Park , A. Passeri , T. K. Pedlar , R. Pestotnik , L. E. Piilonen , T. Podobnik , E. Prencipe , M. T. Prim , M. Röhrken , N. Rout , G. Russo , S. Sandilya , A. Sangal , L. Santelj , V. Savinov , G. Schnell , C. Schwanda , Y. Seino , K. Senyo , M. E. Sevior , W. Shan , M. Shapkin , J. -G. Shiu , B. Shwartz , F. Simon , E. Solovieva , M. Starič , M. Sumihama , T. Sumiyoshi , M. Takizawa , K. Tanida , F. Tenchini , M. Uchida , T. Uglov , Y. Unno , K. Uno , S. Uno , R. van Tonder , G. Varner , K. E. Varvell , D. Wang , E. Wang , M. -Z. Wang , E. Won , X. Xu , B. D. Yabsley , W. Yan , S. B. Yang , J. Yelton , Y. Yusa , Z. P. Zhang , V. Zhilich , V. Zhukova

We present a new result based on an analysis of the data collected by the MEG detector at the Paul Scherrer Institut in 2009 and 2010, in search of the lepton flavour violating decay mu->e gamma. The likelihood analysis of the combined data…