155 research outputs found
Rare kaon decays (NA48/2 and NA62)
The rare decay has been recently measured from
data samples collected by the NA48/2 and NA62 experiments at CERN. These
measurements are presented, including model-independent spectrum measurements
and fits to the Chiral Perturbation Theory description.Comment: talk given at the EPS HEP conference, 18-24 July 2013, Stockholm,
Swede
Neutral pion form factor measurement at NA62
The NA62 experiment at CERN collected a large sample of charged kaon decays
with a highly efficient trigger for decays into electrons in 2007. The kaon
beam represents a source of tagged neutral pion decays in vacuum. A measurement
of the electromagnetic transition form factor slope of the neutral pion in the
time-like region from fully reconstructed Dalitz decay
is presented. The limits on dark photon production in decays from the
earlier kaon experiment at CERN, NA48/2, are also reported.Comment: Talk given at ICHEP 2016, Chicago, 3-10 August 2016. arXiv admin
note: text overlap with arXiv:1609.0295
Kaon experiments at CERN: recent results and prospects
The NA48/2 and NA62- experiments at the CERN SPS collected large samples
of charged kaon decays in flight in 2003--07. The data analysis is still
on-going (with over 20 publications produced so far); the recent results from
these experiments are presented. A new upper limit on the rate of a lepton
number violating decay is reported:
at 90\% CL. Searches for heavy sterile
neutrino and neutral scalar resonances () in
decays are reported. Upper limits on the products and are set in the range to
for resonance lifetimes up to 100~ps. A preliminary measurement of
the electromagnetic transition form factor slope of the from
fully reconstructed decays is
presented: the obtained result represents the first observation of a non-zero
slope in the time-like region of momentum transfer.Comment: Contribution to proceedings of MESON 2016 conference (Krakow, 2-6
June 2016
New results from the NA48/2 experiment at CERN SPS: radiative nonleptonic kaon decays
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
decay candidates with 0.6% background, 1,164
candidates with 3.3% background, and 120
candidates with 6.1% background allowed precise measurements of branching
fractions and other characteristics of these rare kaon decays.Comment: Talk given at 22nd Rencontres de Physique de La Vallee d'Aoste, La
Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy, 24 Feb-1 Mar 2006. 15 pages, 4 figure
Searches for lepton flavour and lepton number violation in kaon decays
Searches for lepton flavour and lepton number violation in kaon decays by the
NA48/2 and NA62 experiments at CERN are presented. A new measurement of the
helicity suppressed ratio of charged kaon leptonic decay rates
$RK=BR(Ke2)/BR(Kmu2) to sub-percent relative precision is discussed. An
improved upper limit on the lepton number violating K+- --> pi-+mu+-mu+- decay
rate is also presented.Comment: Talk given at Moriond EW 2011 conference (La Thuile, Italy, March
2011
Precision study of K^\pm\to\pi^\pm\pi^0\pi^0 and K^\pm\to\pi^\pm\pi^+\pi^- Dalitz plot distributions by NA48/2
The NA48/2 experiment at the CERN SPS has collected an unprecedented sample
of decays. The high statistics and the good resolution of the
detectors allow a unique investigation of the detailed phase space
distributions of these decays. The effects of final state pion rescattering
observed in the Dalitz plot distribution of the
decays turned out to be a powerful tool for extraction of the S-wave
scattering lengths. The large statistics also allowed a precise measurement of
the Dalitz plot slope parameters for the decays.Comment: Talk given at Kaon'07 Conference, LNF, Frascati, Italy, 21--25 May,
2007. A version revised by PoS refere
Rare Kaon Decay Experiments at CERN
The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS aims to measure the branching ratio of
the rare decay with a relative precision of .
To achieve that goal, it is designed to be exposed to
decays in its fiducial volume. The unprecedented flux will lead to record
sensitivities to rare and forbidden decays of and , including
those that violate lepton flavour or lepton number conservation. The expected
NA62 performances for lepton flavour conservation and lepton universality tests
are discussed. Relevant on-going or recently completed measurements from the
decay data sets collected by earlier kaon experiments at CERN (NA48/2
and NA62-) are also presented.Comment: Talk given at the 1st Charged Lepton Flavour Conference, Lecce, May
201
Search for the dark photon in decays
A sample of fully reconstructed
decay candidates collected by the NA48/2 experiment at CERN in 2003--2004 is
analysed to search for the dark photon () production in the decay followed by the prompt decay. No signal is observed,
and an exclusion region in the plane of the dark photon mass and
mixing parameter is established. The obtained upper limits on
are more stringent than the previous limits in the mass range
. The prospects of the dark photon
search in the decay are also discussed.Comment: Contribution to the proceedings of the PLANCK 2015 conference,
Ioannina, Greece, 25-29 May 201
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