High Intensity Kaon Experiments (HIKE) at the CERN SPS Proposal for Phases 1 and 2

A timely and long-term programme of kaon decay measurements at an unprecedented level of precision is presented, leveraging the capabilities of the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). The proposed HIKE programme is firmly anchored on the experience built up studying kaon decays at the SPS over the past four decades, and includes rare processes, CP violation, dark sectors, symmetry tests and other tests of the Standard Model. The programme is based on a staged approach involving experiments with charged and neutral kaon beams, as well as operation in beam-dump mode. The various phases will rely on a common infrastructure and set of detectors

High Intensity Kaon Experiments (HIKE) at CERN SPS

The availability of a kaon beam in the CERN SPS North Area gives a unique possibility of making tests of the Standard Model in the flavour physics sector. The HIKE programme has been presented at CERN to study rare decays of charged and neutral kaons with unprecedented precision. The realization of this programme will allow for tests of lepton flavour universality and lepton number conservation, as well as other precision measurements in the kaon sector and exotic particle searches

High intensity kaon experiments (HIKE) at CERN SPS

The availability of a kaon beam in the CERN SPS North Area gives a unique possibility of making tests of the Standard Model in the flavour physics sector. The HIKE programme has been presented at CERN to study rare decays of charged and neutral kaons with unprecedented precision. The realization of this programme will allow for tests of lepton flavour universality and lepton number conservation, as well as other precision measurements in the kaon sector and exotic particle searches

High Intensity Kaon Experiments (HIKE) at the CERN SPS Proposal for Phases 1 and 2

International audienceA timely and long-term programme of kaon decay measurements at an unprecedented level of precision is presented, leveraging the capabilities of the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). The proposed HIKE programme is firmly anchored on the experience built up studying kaon decays at the SPS over the past four decades, and includes rare processes, CP violation, dark sectors, symmetry tests and other tests of the Standard Model. The programme is based on a staged approach involving experiments with charged and neutral kaon beams, as well as operation in beam-dump mode. The various phases will rely on a common infrastructure and set of detectors

High Intensity Kaon Experiments (HIKE) at the CERN SPS Proposal for Phases 1 and 2

International audienceA timely and long-term programme of kaon decay measurements at an unprecedented level of precision is presented, leveraging the capabilities of the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). The proposed HIKE programme is firmly anchored on the experience built up studying kaon decays at the SPS over the past four decades, and includes rare processes, CP violation, dark sectors, symmetry tests and other tests of the Standard Model. The programme is based on a staged approach involving experiments with charged and neutral kaon beams, as well as operation in beam-dump mode. The various phases will rely on a common infrastructure and set of detectors

Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects

During 2011 the LHCb experiment at CERN collected 1.0 fb−1 of s√=7~TeV pp collisions. Due to the large heavy quark production cross-sections, these data provide unprecedented samples of heavy flavoured hadrons. The first results from LHCb have made a significant impact on the flavour physics landscape and have definitively proved the concept of a dedicated experiment in the forward region at a hadron collider. This document discusses the implications of these first measurements on classes of extensions to the Standard Model, bearing in mind the interplay with the results of searches for on-shell production of new particles at ATLAS and CMS. The physics potential of an upgrade to the LHCb detector, which would allow an order of magnitude more data to be collected, is emphasised