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1. Measurement of the K+ → π+γγ decay

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E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, T. Numao, Y. Petrov, B. Velghe, V.W.S. Wong, D. Bryman, J. Fu, Z. Hives, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, B. De Martino, M. Perrin-Terrin, B. Döbrich, S. Lezki, A.T. Akmete, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, A. Mazzolari, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, M. Soldani, H. Wahl, L. Bandiera, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, M. Romagnoni, A. Sytov, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, P. Lo Chiatto, I. Panichi, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, G. Tinti, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, M. D'Errico, D. Di Filippo, R. Fiorenza, R. Giordano, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, I. Rosa, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D'Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, P. Cretaro, O. Frezza, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, M. Turisini, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, A. Briano Olvera, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, M.A. Reyes Santos, K.A. Rodriguez Rivera, P. Boboc, A.M. Bragadireanu, S.A. Ghinescu, O.E. Hutanu, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, M. Ceoletta, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E.B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, R. Marchevski, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M.B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J.R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, J. Henshaw, L. Iacobuzio, C. Kenworthy, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, J. Sanders, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, A. Tomczak, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J.B. Dainton, R.W.L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, P. Rubin, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, S. Fedotov, K. Gorshanov, E. Gushchin, V. Kekelidze, D. Kereibay, S. Kholodenko, A. Khotyantsev, A. Korotkova, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, V. Kurshetsov, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, V. Obraztsov, A. Okhotnikov, A. Ostankov, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, A. Sadovskiy, V. Semenov, S. Shkarovskiy, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, and A. Zinchenko

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

A sample of 3984 candidates of the K+→π+γγ decay, with an estimated background of 291±14 events, was collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN during 2017–2018. In order to describe the observed di-photon mass spectrum, the next-to-leading order contribution in chiral perturbation theory was found to be necessary. The decay branching ratio in the full kinematic range is measured to be (9.61±0.17)×10−7. The first search for production and prompt decay of an axion-like particle with gluon coupling in the process K+→π+a, a→γγ is also reported.

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2024
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2. Improved calorimetric particle identification in NA62 using machine learning techniques

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The NA62 collaboration, E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, W. Fedorko, T. Numao, Y. Petrov, B. Velghe, V. W. S. Wong, M. Yu, D. Bryman, J. Fu, Z. Hives, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, B. De Martino, M. Perrin-Terrin, A. T. Akmete, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, A. Mazzolari, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, M. Soldani, H. Wahl, L. Bandiera, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, M. Romagnoni, A. Sytov, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, P. Lo Chiatto, I. Panichi, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, G. Tinti, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, M. D’Errico, D. Di Filippo, R. Fiorenza, R. Giordano, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, I. Rosa, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D’Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, P. Cretaro, O. Frezza, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, M. Turisini, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, A. Briano Olvera, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, M. A. Reyes Santos, P. Boboc, A. M. Bragadireanu, S. A. Ghinescu, O. E. Hutanu, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, M. Ceoletta, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E. B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, R. Marchevski, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M. B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J. R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, J. Henshaw, L. Iacobuzio, C. Kenworthy, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, J. Sanders, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, A. Tomczak, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J. B. Dainton, R. W. L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, P. Rubin, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, S. Fedotov, K. Gorshanov, E. Gushchin, V. Kekelidze, D. Kereibay, S. Kholodenko, A. Khotyantsev, A. Korotkova, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, V. Kurshetsov, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, V. Obraztsov, A. Okhotnikov, A. Ostankov, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, A. Sadovskiy, V. Semenov, S. Shkarovskiy, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, and A. Zinchenko

Subjects
Fixed Target Experiments, Branching fraction, Rare Decay, Flavour Physics, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract Measurement of the ultra-rare K + → π + ν ν ¯ $$ {K}^{+}\to {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu} $$ decay at the NA62 experiment at CERN requires high-performance particle identification to distinguish muons from pions. Calorimetric identification currently in use, based on a boosted decision tree algorithm, achieves a muon misidentification probability of 1.2 × 10 −5 for a pion identification efficiency of 75% in the momentum range of 15–40 GeV/c. In this work, calorimetric identification performance is improved by developing an algorithm based on a convolutional neural network classifier augmented by a filter. Muon misidentification probability is reduced by a factor of six with respect to the current value for a fixed pion-identification efficiency of 75%. Alternatively, pion identification efficiency is improved from 72% to 91% for a fixed muon misidentification probability of 10 −5.

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2023
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3. A study of the K + → π 0 e + νγ decay

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The NA62 collaboration, E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, T. Numao, Y. Petrov, B. Velghe, V. W. S. Wong, D. Bryman, J. Fu, Z. Hives, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, B. De Martino, M. Perrin-Terrin, A. T. Akmete, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, A. Mazzolari, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, M. Soldani, H. Wahl, L. Bandiera, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, M. Romagnoni, A. Sytov, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, P. Lo Chiatto, I. Panichi, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, G. Tinti, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, M. D’Errico, D. Di Filippo, R. Fiorenza, R. Giordano, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, I. Rosa, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D’Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, P. Cretaro, O. Frezza, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, M. Turisini, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, A. Briano Olvera, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, M. A. Reyes Santos, P. Boboc, A. M. Bragadireanu, S. A. Ghinescu, O. E. Hutanu, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, M. Ceoletta, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E. B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, R. Marchevski, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M. B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J. R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, J. Henshaw, L. Iacobuzio, C. Kenworthy, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, J. Sanders, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, A. Tomczak, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J. B. Dainton, R. W. L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, P. Rubin, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, S. Fedotov, K. Gorshanov, E. Gushchin, V. Kekelidze, D. Kereibay, S. Kholodenko, A. Khotyantsev, A. Korotkova, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, V. Kurshetsov, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, V. Obraztsov, A. Okhotnikov, A. Ostankov, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, A. Sadovskiy, V. Semenov, S. Shkarovskiy, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, and A. Zinchenko

Subjects
Branching fraction, Electroweak Interaction, Fixed Target Experiments, Flavour Physics, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract A sample of 1.3 × 105 K + → π 0 e + νγ candidates with less than 1% background was collected by the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS in 2017–2018. Branching fraction measurements are obtained at percent relative precision in three restricted kinematic regions, improving on existing results by a factor larger than two. An asymmetry, possibly related to T-violation, is investigated with no evidence observed within the achieved precision.

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2023
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4. Search for dark photon decays to μ + μ − at NA62

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The NA62 collaboration, E. Cortina Gil, J. Jerhot, A. Kleimenova, N. Lurkin, M. Zamkovsky, T. Numao, B. Velghe, V. W. S. Wong, D. Bryman, Z. Hives, T. Husek, K. Kampf, M. Koval, B. De Martino, M. Perrin-Terrin, A. T. Akmete, R. Aliberti, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, L. Peruzzo, S. Schuchmann, H. Wahl, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, A. Mazzolari, I. Neri, F. Petrucci, M. Soldani, L. Bandiera, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, M. Romagnoni, A. Sytov, M. Lenti, P. Lo Chiatto, R. Marchevski, I. Panichi, G. Ruggiero, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, G. Tinti, F. Ambrosino, M. D’Errico, R. Fiorenza, R. Giordano, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, I. Rosa, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, P. Cenci, V. Duk, R. Lollini, P. Lubrano, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, J. Pinzino, M. Sozzi, R. Fantechi, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, P. Cretaro, O. Frezza, A. Lonardo, M. Turisini, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, D. Soldi, A. Briano Olvera, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, R. Piandani, M. A. Reyes Santos, P. Boboc, A. M. Bragadireanu, S. A. Ghinescu, O. E. Hutanu, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, R. Volpe, J. Bernhard, L. Bician, M. Boretto, A. Ceccucci, M. Ceoletta, M. Corvino, H. Danielsson, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, R. Guida, E. B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, K. Massri, E. Minucci, M. Noy, V. Ryjov, J. Swallow, J. R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, J. Henshaw, C. Kenworthy, C. Lazzeroni, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, J. Sanders, A. Sergi, A. Shaikhiev, A. Tomczak, H. Heath, D. Britton, A. Norton, D. Protopopescu, J. B. Dainton, L. Gatignon, R. W. L. Jones, P. Cooper, D. Coward, P. Rubin, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, S. Fedotov, K. Gorshanov, E. Gushchin, V. Kekelidze, D. Kereibay, S. Kholodenko, A. Khotyantsev, A. Korotkova, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, V. Kurshetsov, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, A. Mefodev, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, V. Obraztsov, A. Okhotnikov, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, A. Sadovskiy, S. Shkarovskiy, V. Sugonyaev, and O. Yushchenko

Subjects
Beyond Standard Model, Exotics, Fixed Target Experiments, Dark Matter, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The NA62 experiment at CERN, designed to study the ultra-rare decay K + → π + ν ν ¯ $$ \nu \overline{\nu} $$ , has also collected data in beam-dump mode. In this configuration, dark photons may be produced by protons dumped on an absorber and reach a decay volume beginning 80 m downstream. A search for dark photons decaying in flight to μ + μ − pairs is reported, based on a sample of 1.4 × 1017 protons on dump collected in 2021. No evidence for a dark photon signal is observed. A region of the parameter space is excluded at 90% CL, improving on previous experimental limits for dark photon masses between 215 and 550 MeV/c 2.

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2023
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5. Addendum to: A measurement of the K + → π + μ + μ − decay

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The NA62 collaboration, E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, T. Numao, Y. Petrov, B. Velghe, V. W. S. Wong, D. Bryman, J. Fu, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, H. Wahl, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, G. Tinti, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, D. Di Filippo, R. Fiorenza, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D’Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, P. Cretaro, O. Frezza, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, M. Turisini, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, A. M. Bragadireanu, S. A. Ghinescu, O. E. Hutanu, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, V. Kekelidze, A. Korotkova, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Zinchenko, S. Fedotov, E. Gushchin, A. Khotyantsev, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, S. Kholodenko, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, V. Semenov, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E. B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, R. Marchevski, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, M. Perrin-Terrin, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M. B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J. R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, J. Henshaw, L. Iacobuzio, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, A. Tomczak, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J. B. Dainton, R. W. L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, and P. Rubin

Subjects
Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
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2023
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6. Performance of the NA62 trigger system

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The NA62 collaboration, E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, T. Numao, Y. Petrov, B. Velghe, V. W. S. Wong, D. Bryman, J. Fu, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, H. Wahl, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, G. Tinti, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, D. Di Filippo, R. Fiorenza, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D’Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, P. Cretaro, O. Frezza, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, M. Turisini, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, A. M. Bragadireanu, S. A. Ghinescu, O. E. Hutanu, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, V. Kekelidze, A. Korotkova, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Zinchenko, S. Fedotov, E. Gushchin, A. Khotyantsev, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, S. Kholodenko, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, V. Semenov, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E. B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, R. Marchevski, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, M. Perrin-Terrin, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M. B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J. R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, J. Henshaw, L. Iacobuzio, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, A. Tomczak, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J. B. Dainton, R. W. L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, and P. Rubin

Subjects
Fixed Target Experiments, Flavour Physics, Flavour Changing Neutral Currents, Rare Decay, Trigger, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The NA62 experiment at CERN targets the measurement of the ultra-rare K + → π + ν ν ¯ $$ {K}^{+}\to {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu} $$ decay, and carries out a broad physics programme that includes probes for symmetry violations and searches for exotic particles. Data were collected in 2016–2018 using a multi-level trigger system, which is described highlighting performance studies based on 2018 data.

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2023
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7. Search for K+ decays into the π+e+e−e+e− final state

Author

E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, T. Numao, Y. Petrov, B. Velghe, V.W.S. Wong, D. Bryman, J. Fu, Z. Hives, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, B. De Martino, M. Perrin-Terrin, A.T. Akmete, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, A. Mazzolari, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, M. Soldani, H. Wahl, L. Bandiera, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, M. Romagnoni, A. Sytov, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, P. Lo Chiatto, I. Panichi, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, G. Tinti, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, M. D'Errico, D. Di Filippo, R. Fiorenza, R. Giordano, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, I. Rosa, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D'Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, P. Cretaro, O. Frezza, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, M. Turisini, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, A. Briano Olvera, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, M.A. Reyes Santos, P. Boboc, A.M. Bragadireanu, S.A. Ghinescu, O.E. Hutanu, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, M. Ceoletta, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E.B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, R. Marchevski, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M.B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J.R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, J. Henshaw, L. Iacobuzio, C. Kenworthy, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, J. Sanders, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, A. Tomczak, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J.B. Dainton, R.W.L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, P. Rubin, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, S. Fedotov, K. Gorshanov, E. Gushchin, V. Kekelidze, D. Kereibay, S. Kholodenko, A. Khotyantsev, A. Korotkova, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, V. Kurshetsov, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, V. Obraztsov, A. Okhotnikov, A. Ostankov, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, A. Sadovskiy, V. Semenov, S. Shkarovskiy, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, and A. Zinchenko

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

The first search for ultra-rare K+ decays into the π+e+e−e+e− final state is reported, using a dataset collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2017–2018. An upper limit of 1.4×10−8 at 90% CL is obtained for the branching ratio of the K+→π+e+e−e+e− decay, predicted in the Standard Model to be (7.2±0.7)×10−11. Upper limits at 90% CL are obtained at the level of 10−9 for the branching ratios of two prompt decay chains involving pair-production of hidden-sector mediators: K+→π+aa, a→e+e− and K+→π+S, S→A′A′, A′→e+e−.

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2023
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8. A measurement of the K + → π + μ + μ − decay

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The NA62 collaboration, E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, T. Numao, Y. Petrov, B. Velghe, V. W. S. Wong, D. Bryman, J. Fu, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, H. Wahl, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, G. Tinti, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, D. Di Filippo, R. Fiorenza, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D’Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, P. Cretaro, O. Frezza, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, M. Turisini, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, A. M. Bragadireanu, S. A. Ghinescu, O. E. Hutanu, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, V. Kekelidze, A. Korotkova, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Zinchenko, S. Fedotov, E. Gushchin, A. Khotyantsev, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, S. Kholodenko, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, V. Semenov, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E. B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, R. Marchevski, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, M. Perrin-Terrin, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M. B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J. R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, J. Henshaw, L. Iacobuzio, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, A. Tomczak, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J. B. Dainton, R. W. L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, and P. Rubin

Subjects
Branching fraction, Fixed Target Experiments, Flavour Changing Neutral Currents, Rare Decay, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract A sample of 2.8 × 104 K + → π + μ + μ − 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 ± 0.08) × 10 −8, a factor three more precise than previous measurements. The decay form factor is presented as a function of the squared dimuon mass. A measurement of the form factor parameters and their uncertainties is performed using a description based on Chiral Perturbation Theory at O $$ \mathcal{O} $$ (p 6).

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2022
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9. A search for the K+ → μ−νe+e+ decay

Author

E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, T. Numao, Y. Petrov, B. Velghe, V.W.S. Wong, D. Bryman, J. Fu, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, H. Wahl, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, G. Tinti, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, D. Di Filippo, R. Fiorenza, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D'Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, P. Cretaro, O. Frezza, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, M. Turisini, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, A.M. Bragadireanu, S.A. Ghinescu, O.E. Hutanu, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, V. Kekelidze, A. Korotkova, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Zinchenko, S. Fedotov, E. Gushchin, A. Khotyantsev, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, S. Kholodenko, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, V. Semenov, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E.B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, R. Marchevski, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, M. Perrin-Terrin, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M.B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J.R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, J. Henshaw, L. Iacobuzio, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, A. Tomczak, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J.B. Dainton, R.W.L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, and P. Rubin

Subjects
Kaon decays, Lepton number violation, Lepton flavour violation, Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

A search for the K+→μ−νe+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 the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2016–2018. An upper limit of 8.1×10−11 is obtained for the decay branching fraction at 90% CL, improving by a factor of 250 over the previous search.

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2023
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10. Measurement of the very rare K + → π + ν ν ¯ $$ {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu} $$ decay

Author

The NA62 collaboration, E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, T. Numao, Y. Petrov, B. Velghe, D. Bryman, J. Fu, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, H. Wahl, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, D. Di Filippo, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D’Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, A. M. Bragadireanu, S. A. Ghinescu, O. E. Hutanu, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, V. Kekelidze, A. Korotkova, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Zinchenko, S. Fedotov, E. Gushchin, A. Khotyantsev, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, S. Kholodenko, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, V. Semenov, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E. B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, R. Marchevski, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, M. Perrin-Terrin, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M. B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J. R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, J. Henshaw, L. Iacobuzio, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J. B. Dainton, R. W. L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, and P. Rubin

Subjects
FCNC Interaction, Flavour Changing Neutral Currents, Rare decay, Fixed target experiments, Flavor physics, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The NA62 experiment reports the branching ratio measurement BR K + → π + ν ν ¯ = 10.6 − 3.4 + 4.0 stat ± 0.9 syst × 10 − 11 $$ \mathrm{BR}\left({K}^{+}\to {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu}\right)=\left({10.6}_{-3.4}^{+4.0}\left|{}_{\mathrm{stat}}\right.\pm {0.9}_{\mathrm{syst}}\right)\times {10}^{-11} $$ at 68% CL, based on the observation of 20 signal candidates with an expected background of 7.0 events from the total data sample collected at the CERN SPS during 2016–2018. This provides evidence for the very rare K + → π + ν ν ¯ $$ {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu} $$ decay, observed with a significance of 3.4σ. The experiment achieves a single event sensitivity of (0.839 ± 0.054) × 10 −11, corresponding to 10.0 events assuming the Standard Model branching ratio of (8.4 ± 1.0) × 10 −11. This measurement is also used to set limits on BR(K + → π + X), where X is a scalar or pseudo-scalar particle. Details are given of the analysis of the 2018 data sample, which corresponds to about 80% of the total data sample.

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2021
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11. Searches for lepton number violating K+ → π−(π0)e+e+ decays

Author

E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, T. Numao, Y. Petrov, B. Velghe, V.W.S. Wong, D. Bryman, J. Fu, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, H. Wahl, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, G. Tinti, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, D. Di Filippo, R. Fiorenza, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D'Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, P. Cretaro, O. Frezza, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, M. Turisini, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, A.M. Bragadireanu, S.A. Ghinescu, O.E. Hutanu, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, V. Kekelidze, A. Korotkova, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Zinchenko, S. Fedotov, E. Gushchin, A. Khotyantsev, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, S. Kholodenko, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, V. Semenov, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E.B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, R. Marchevski, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, M. Perrin-Terrin, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M.B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J.R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, J. Henshaw, L. Iacobuzio, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, A. Tomczak, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J.B. Dainton, R.W.L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, and P. Rubin

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

Searches for lepton number violating K+→π−e+e+ and K+→π−π0e+e+ decays have been performed using the complete dataset collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2016–2018. Upper limits of 5.3×10−11 and 8.5×10−10 are obtained on the decay branching fractions at 90% confidence level. The former result improves by a factor of four over the previous best limit, while the latter result represents the first limit on the K+→π−π0e+e+ decay rate.

Published
2022
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12. Search for a feebly interacting particle X in the decay K + → π + X

Author

The NA62 collaboration, E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, T. Numao, B. Velghe, D. Bryman, J. Fu, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, R. Marchevski, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, H. Wahl, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, D. Di Filippo, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D’Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, A. M. Bragadireanu, S. A. Ghinescu, O. E. Hutanu, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, V. Kekelidze, A. Korotkova, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Zinchenko, S. Fedotov, E. Gushchin, A. Khotyantsev, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, S. Kholodenko, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, V. Semenov, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E. B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, M. Perrin-Terrin, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M. B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J. R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, L. Iacobuzio, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J. B. Dainton, R. W. L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, and P. Rubin

Subjects
Beyond Standard Model, Exotics, Fixed target experiments, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract A search for the K + → π + X decay, where X is a long-lived feebly interacting particle, is performed through an interpretation of the K + → π + ν ν ¯ $$ {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu} $$ analysis of data collected in 2017 by the NA62 experiment at CERN. Two ranges of X masses, 0–110 MeV/c 2 and 154–260 MeV/c 2, and lifetimes above 100 ps are considered. The limits set on the branching ratio, BR(K + → π + X), are competitive with previously reported searches in the first mass range, and improve on current limits in the second mass range by more than an order of magnitude.

Published
2021
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13. An investigation of the very rare K + → π + ν ν ¯ $$ {K}^{+}\to {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu} $$ decay

Author

The NA62 collaboration, E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, T. Numao, B. Velghe, D. Bryman, J. Fu, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, R. Marchevski, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, H. Wahl, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, D. Di Filippo, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D’Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, A. M. Bragadireanu, S. A. Ghinescu, O. E. Hutanu, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, V. Kekelidze, A. Korotkova, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Zinchenko, S. Fedotov, E. Gushchin, A. Khotyantsev, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, S. Kholodenko, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, V. Semenov, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E. B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, M. Perrin-Terrin, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M. B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J. R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, L. Iacobuzio, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J. B. Dainton, R. W. L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, and P. Rubin

Subjects
Fixed target experiments, Flavor physics, Flavour Changing Neutral Currents, Rare decay, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The NA62 experiment reports an investigation of the K + → π + ν ν ¯ $$ {K}^{+}\to {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu} $$ mode from a sample of K + decays collected in 2017 at the CERN SPS. The experiment has achieved a single event sensitivity of (0.389 ± 0.024) × 10 −10, corresponding to 2.2 events assuming the Standard Model branching ratio of (8.4 ± 1.0) × 10 −11. Two signal candidates are observed with an expected background of 1.5 events. Combined with the result of a similar analysis conducted by NA62 on a smaller data set recorded in 2016, the collaboration now reports an upper limit of 1.78 × 10 −10 for the K + → π + ν ν ¯ $$ {K}^{+}\to {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu} $$ branching ratio at 90% CL. This, together with the corresponding 68% CL measurement of ( 0.48 − 0.48 + 0.72 $$ {0.48}_{-0.48}^{+0.72} $$ ) × 10 −10, are currently the most precise results worldwide, and are able to constrain some New Physics models that predict large enhancements still allowed by previous measurements.

Published
2020
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14. Search for production of an invisible dark photon in π 0 decays

Author

The NA62 collaboration, E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, L. Litov, T. Numao, Y. Petrov, B. Velghe, D. Bryman, J. Fu, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, H. Wahl, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Lanfranchi, G. Mannocchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, D. Di Filippo, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D’Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, A. M. Bragadireanu, S. A. Ghinescu, O. E. Hutanu, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, V. Kekelidze, A. Korotkova, D. Madigozhin, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Zinchenko, S. Fedotov, E. Gushchin, A. Khotyantsev, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, S. Kholodenko, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, V. Semenov, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E. B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, R. Marchevski, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, M. Perrin-Terrin, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M. B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J. R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, L. Iacobuzio, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J. B. Dainton, R. W. L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, and P. Rubin

Subjects
Beyond Standard Model, Exotics, Fixed target experiments, Rare decay, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The results of a search for π 0 decays to a photon and an invisible massive dark photon at the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS are reported. From a total of 4.12 × 108 tagged π 0 mesons, no signal is observed. Assuming a kinetic-mixing interaction, limits are set on the dark photon coupling to the ordinary photon as a function of the dark photon mass, improving on previous searches in the mass range 60–110 MeV/c 2. The present results are interpreted in terms of an upper limit of the branching ratio of the electro-weak decay π 0 → γ ν ν ¯ $$ {\pi}^0\to \gamma \nu \overline{\nu} $$ , improving the current limit by more than three orders of magnitude.

Published
2019
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15. First search for K+→π+νν¯ using the decay-in-flight technique

Author

E. Cortina Gil, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, B. Velghe, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, L. Litov, T. Numao, D. Bryman, J. Fu, T. Husek, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, R. Marchevski, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, E. Gamberini, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, H. Wahl, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, R. Volpe, A. Antonelli, G. Lamanna, G. Lanfranchi, G. Mannocchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, M. Raggi, T. Spadaro, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, D. Di Filippo, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, V. Duk, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, R. Piandani, J. Pinzino, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D'Agostini, A. Biagioni, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, L. Federici, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, A.M. Bragadireanu, S.A. Ghinescu, O.E. Hutanu, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, V. Kekelidze, A. Korotkova, D. Madigozhin, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Zinchenko, S. Fedotov, E. Gushchin, A. Khotyantsev, A. Kleimenova, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, A. Shaikhiev, S. Kholodenko, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, V. Semenov, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, M. Koval, Z. Kucerova, A. Ceccucci, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, B. Jenninger, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, M. Perrin-Terrin, V. Ryjov, S. Venditti, M.B. Brunetti, V. Fascianelli, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, L. Iacobuzio, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J.B. Dainton, J.R. Fry, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, G. Ruggiero, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, and P. Rubin

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS reports the first search for K+→π+νν¯ using the decay-in-flight technique, based on a sample of 1.21×1011 K+ decays collected in 2016. The single event sensitivity is 3.15×10−10, corresponding to 0.267 Standard Model events. One signal candidate is observed while the expected background is 0.152 events. This leads to an upper limit of 14×10−10 on the K+→π+νν¯ branching ratio at 95% CL.

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2019
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16. Search for K+ decays to a muon and invisible particles

Author

E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, T. Numao, Y. Petrov, B. Velghe, D. Bryman, J. Fu, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, H. Wahl, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, D. Di Filippo, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D'Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, A.M. Bragadireanu, S.A. Ghinescu, O.E. Hutanu, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, V. Kekelidze, A. Korotkova, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Zinchenko, S. Fedotov, E. Gushchin, A. Khotyantsev, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, S. Kholodenko, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, V. Semenov, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E.B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, R. Marchevski, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, M. Perrin-Terrin, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M.B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J.R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, J. Henshaw, L. Iacobuzio, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J.B. Dainton, R.W.L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, and P. Rubin

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

The NA62 experiment at CERN reports searches for K+→μ+N and K+→μ+νX decays, where N and X are massive invisible particles, using the 2016–2018 data set. The N particle is assumed to be a heavy neutral lepton, and the results are expressed as upper limits of O(10−8) of the neutrino mixing parameter |Uμ4|2 for N masses in the range 200–384 MeV/c2 and lifetime exceeding 50 ns. The X particle is considered a scalar or vector hidden sector mediator decaying to an invisible final state, and upper limits of the decay branching fraction for X masses in the range 10–370 MeV/c2 are reported for the first time, ranging from O(10−5) to O(10−7). An improved upper limit of 1.0×10−6 is established at 90% CL on the K+→μ+ννν¯ branching fraction.

Published
2021
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17. Search for heavy neutral lepton production in K+ decays to positrons

Author

E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, T. Numao, Y. Petrov, B. Velghe, D. Bryman, J. Fu, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, H. Wahl, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, D. Di Filippo, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D'Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, A.M. Bragadireanu, S.A. Ghinescu, O.E. Hutanu, A. Baeva, D. Baigarashev, D. Emelyanov, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, V. Kekelidze, A. Korotkova, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Zinchenko, S. Fedotov, E. Gushchin, A. Khotyantsev, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, S. Kholodenko, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, V. Semenov, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E.B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, R. Marchevski, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, M. Perrin-Terrin, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M.B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J.R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, J. Henshaw, L. Iacobuzio, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J.B. Dainton, R.W.L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, and P. Rubin

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

A search for heavy neutral lepton (N) production in K+→e+N decays using the data sample collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2017–2018 is reported. Upper limits of the extended neutrino mixing matrix element |Ue4|2 are established at the level of 10−9 over most of the accessible heavy neutral lepton mass range 144–462 MeV/c2, with the assumption that the lifetime exceeds 50 ns. These limits improve significantly upon those of previous production and decay searches. The |Ue4|2 range favoured by Big Bang Nucleosynthesis is excluded up to a mass of about 340 MeV/c2.

Published
2020
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18. Search for heavy neutrinos in π → μν decay

Author

A. Aguilar-Arevalo, M. Aoki, M. Blecher, D.I. Britton, D. vom Bruch, D.A. Bryman, S. Chen, J. Comfort, L. Doria, S. Cuen-Rochin, P. Gumplinger, A. Hussein, Y. Igarashi, S. Ito, S.H. Kettell, L. Kurchaninov, L.S. Littenberg, C. Malbrunot, R.E. Mischke, T. Numao, D. Protopopescu, A. Sher, T. Sullivan, and D. Vavilov

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

In the present work of the PIENU experiment, heavy neutrinos were sought in pion decays π+→μ+ν at rest by examining the observed muon energy spectrum for extra peaks in addition to the expected peak for a light neutrino. No evidence for heavy neutrinos was observed. Upper limits were set on the neutrino mixing matrix |Uμi|2 in the neutrino mass region of 15.7–33.8 MeV/c2, improving on previous results by an order of magnitude. Keywords: Pion decay, Heavy neutrino

Published
2019
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19. Searches for lepton number violating K+ decays

Author

E. Cortina Gil, A. Kleimenova, E. Minucci, S. Padolski, P. Petrov, A. Shaikhiev, R. Volpe, T. Numao, Y. Petrov, B. Velghe, D. Bryman, J. Fu, T. Husek, J. Jerhot, K. Kampf, M. Zamkovsky, R. Aliberti, G. Khoriauli, J. Kunze, D. Lomidze, L. Peruzzo, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. Dalpiaz, M. Fiorini, I. Neri, A. Norton, F. Petrucci, H. Wahl, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Gianoli, E. Iacopini, G. Latino, M. Lenti, A. Parenti, A. Bizzeti, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, G. Georgiev, V. Kozhuharov, G. Lanfranchi, G. Mannocchi, S. Martellotti, M. Moulson, T. Spadaro, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, M. Corvino, D. Di Filippo, P. Massarotti, M. Mirra, M. Napolitano, G. Saracino, G. Anzivino, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, R. Lollini, R. Piandani, C. Santoni, M. Barbanera, P. Cenci, B. Checcucci, P. Lubrano, M. Lupi, M. Pepe, M. Piccini, F. Costantini, L. Di Lella, N. Doble, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, G. Lamanna, E. Lari, E. Pedreschi, M. Sozzi, C. Cerri, R. Fantechi, L. Pontisso, F. Spinella, I. Mannelli, G. D'Agostini, M. Raggi, A. Biagioni, E. Leonardi, A. Lonardo, P. Valente, P. Vicini, R. Ammendola, V. Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, A. Salamon, F. Sargeni, R. Arcidiacono, B. Bloch-Devaux, M. Boretto, E. Menichetti, E. Migliore, D. Soldi, C. Biino, A. Filippi, F. Marchetto, J. Engelfried, N. Estrada-Tristan, A.M. Bragadireanu, S.A. Ghinescu, O.E. Hutanu, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, V. Kekelidze, A. Korotkova, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, S. Movchan, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Zinchenko, S. Fedotov, E. Gushchin, A. Khotyantsev, Y. Kudenko, V. Kurochka, M. Medvedeva, A. Mefodev, S. Kholodenko, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, V. Semenov, V. Sugonyaev, O. Yushchenko, L. Bician, T. Blazek, V. Cerny, Z. Kucerova, J. Bernhard, A. Ceccucci, H. Danielsson, N. De Simone, F. Duval, B. Döbrich, L. Federici, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, R. Guida, F. Hahn, E.B. Holzer, B. Jenninger, M. Koval, P. Laycock, G. Lehmann Miotto, P. Lichard, A. Mapelli, R. Marchevski, K. Massri, M. Noy, V. Palladino, M. Perrin-Terrin, J. Pinzino, V. Ryjov, S. Schuchmann, S. Venditti, T. Bache, M.B. Brunetti, V. Duk, V. Fascianelli, J.R. Fry, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, L. Iacobuzio, C. Lazzeroni, N. Lurkin, F. Newson, C. Parkinson, A. Romano, A. Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. Swallow, H. Heath, R. Page, S. Trilov, B. Angelucci, D. Britton, C. Graham, D. Protopopescu, J. Carmignani, J.B. Dainton, R.W.L. Jones, G. Ruggiero, L. Fulton, D. Hutchcroft, E. Maurice, B. Wrona, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooper, D. Coward, and P. Rubin

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

The NA62 experiment at CERN reports a search for the lepton number violating decays K+→π−e+e+ and K+→π−μ+μ+ using a data sample collected in 2017. No signals are observed, and upper limits on the branching fractions of these decays of 2.2×10−10 and 4.2×10−11 are obtained, respectively, at 90% confidence level. These upper limits improve on previously reported measurements by factors of 3 and 2, respectively.

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2019
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20. Search for three body Pion Decays π+ → l+νX in the PIENU Experiment

Author

Shintaro Ito, A. Aguilar-Arevalo, M. Aoki, M. Blecher, D.I. Britton, D. Protopopescu, S. Ito, D.A. Bryman, D.vom Bruch, S. Cuen-Rochin, C. Malbrunot, T. Sullivan, S. Chen, J. Comfort, L. Doria, P. Gumplinger, L. Kurchaninov, R.E. Mischke, T. Numao, A. Sher, D. Vavilov, A. Hussein, Y. Igarashi, S. Kettell, and L. Littenberg

Subjects
Sterile Neutrinos and New Physics
Abstract

Parallel Contributed Talk at the "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes" on line - 18-26 February, 2021

Published
2021
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21. Search for Lepton Number and Flavor Violation in K+ and π0 Decays

Author

L. Bician, J. Swallow, L. Di Lella, M. Misheva, H. O. Danielsson, G. Lehmann Miotto, Alessandro Lonardo, D. Soldi, D. Protopopescu, S. Martellotti, Luca Pontisso, Nicolas Lurkin, C. Graham, M. B. Brunetti, Claudio Santoni, V. Falaleev, A. Conovaloff, L. Federici, M. Vormstein, Babette Döbrich, A. M. Bragadireanu, K. Massri, B. Angelucci, A. Filippi, A. I. Zinchenko, L. Iacobuzio, E. B. Holzer, A. Salamon, G. Khoriauli, B. Wrona, C. J. Parkinson, F. Brizioli, Cristina Biino, E. Imbergamo, M. Moulson, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, A. Gianoli, Y. Petrov, L. Fulton, D. Baigarashev, R. Fantechi, Rainer Wanke, C. Cerri, Mauro Piccini, Georgi P. Georgiev, Roberto Guida, Viacheslav Duk, Paul Laycock, E. Minucci, F. Duval, P. Rubin, Roberto Ammendola, Karol Kampf, S. Trilov, P. Lubrano, M. Sozzi, Paolo Massarotti, T. Numao, Fabrizio Petrucci, Emilio Leonardi, A. Baeva, Paolo Valente, Tomáš Husek, J. L. Fu, Leander Litov, I. Polenkevich, R. Page, V. Fascianelli, M. Perrin-Terrin, V. Palladino, P. F. Dalpiaz, Ilaria Neri, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, A. Fucci, N. Doble, F. Hahn, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, Sergei Fedotov, N. De Simone, R. Marchevski, E. Gamberini, E. Lari, Mauro Raggi, D. T. Madigozhin, Antonino Sergi, Yu. Potrebenikov, M. Koval, G. Lamanna, Vladimir Ryjov, Giuseppe Latino, D. Coward, G. Saracino, L. Gatignon, A. Korotkova, M. Medvedeva, Giuseppe Ruggiero, M. Corvino, P. Petrov, Dave Britton, N. Estrada-Tristan, A. Mapelli, Evgueni Goudzovski, Yu.A. Kudenko, Jürgen Engelfried, S. Giudici, F. Bucci, G. D'Agostini, Vladimir Kekelidze, E. Iacopini, Matteo Lupi, D. Emelyanov, A. Sturgess, J. B. Dainton, S. Venditti, E. Menichetti, M. Pepe, A. Khotyantsev, F. Costantini, A. Ceccucci, B. Checcucci, R. W. L. Jones, G. Anzivino, Andrea Biagioni, R. Volpe, B. Jenninger, N. A. Molokanova, Andrea Bizzeti, O. Hutanu, Mattia Barbanera, M. Fiorini, M. Napolitano, S. Ghinescu, J. Henshaw, A. Shaikhiev, Francesco Gonnella, A. Antonelli, E. Maurice, Mario Giorgi, Jacopo Pinzino, V. Kurochka, Tomas Blazek, V. Kozhuharov, L. Peruzzo, M. Zamkovsky, D. Di Filippo, A. Cotta Ramusino, B. Bloch-Devaux, J. Jerhot, F. Newson, Roberta Arcidiacono, V. Cerny, S. Shkarovskiy, F. Marchetto, V. Obraztsov, Piero Vicini, S. Schuchmann, Helen F Heath, V. E. Semenov, E. Gushchin, P. Lichard, Z. Kucerova, H. D. Wahl, E. Pedreschi, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, M. Mirra, A P Ostankov, Matthew Noy, M. Boretto, E. Cortina Gil, Roberto Piandani, P. Cenci, Johannes Bernhard, J. Kunze, G. Lanfranchi, A. Parenti, F. Spinella, R. Lollini, B. Velghe, J. Carmignani, Ernesto Migliore, M. Lenti, S. Padolski, J. R. Fry, V. Sugonyaev, T. Bache, R. Aliberti, A. Norton, D. Lomidze, D. E. Hutchcroft, O. Yushchenko, V. Kurshetsov, S. Kholodenko, Tommaso Spadaro, P. Cooper, A. Mefodev, I. Mannelli, and A. Kleimenova

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Flavour, General Physics and Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, Lepton number, 0103 physical sciences, Pi, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Lepton
Abstract

Searches for the lepton number violating $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{-} \mu^{+} e^{+}$ decay and the lepton flavour violating $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+} \mu^{-} e^{+}$ and $\pi^{0} \rightarrow \mu^{-} e^{+}$ decays are reported using data collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in $2017$-$2018$. No evidence for these decays is found and upper limits of the branching ratios are obtained at 90% confidence level: $\mathcal{B}(K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{-}\mu^{+}e^{+})

Published
2021

22. First search for K+→π+νν¯ using the decay-in-flight technique

Author

Semenov, A. M. Bragadireanu, E. Cortina Gil, G. Saracino, G. Ruggiero, G. Anzivino, Roberto Piandani, L. Peruzzo, R Laycock, M. Moulson, Mauro Piccini, G. Lehmann Miotto, C. Graham, B. Bloch-Devaux, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, M. Sozzi, M. Lenti, N. Doble, Karol Kampf, A. Salamon, G. Khoriauli, D. E. Hutchcroft, S. Padolski, O. Yushchenko, Kozhuharov, F. Brizioli, K. Massri, L. Bician, R. Fantechi, Fabrizio Petrucci, M. Boretto, Luca Federici, Ilaria Neri, J. Swallow, Yu. Potrebenikov, Leander Litov, A. Kleimenova, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, Fry, Sergei Fedotov, Obraztsov, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, Jürgen Engelfried, Giuseppe Latino, H. O. Danielsson, R Massarotti, Z. Kucerova, S. Kholodenko, A. Mapelli, M. Vormstein, P. Cenci, D. Soldi, Luca Pontisso, S. Giudici, A P Ostankov, A. Mefodev, Palladino, Bonaiuto, J. L. Fu, B. Angelucci, R Valente, Kurshetsov, J. Kunze, A. Sturgess, A. Conovaloff, R Dalpiaz, R. Volpe, F. Spinella, Claudio Santoni, Sugonyaev, Kurochka, R. Lollini, I. Mannelli, R Rubin, T. Spadaro, Ernesto Migliore, Alessandro Lonardo, L. Fulton, F. Duval, David Lomidze, N. A. Molokanova, Cerny, C. Cerri, T. Capussela, S. Trilov, G. Lanfranchi, Andrea Biagioni, M. Fiorini, Mauro Raggi, Roberta Arcidiacono, M. Napolitano, A. Gianoli, Georgi P. Georgiev, D. Protopopescu, M. Koval, T. Numao, E. Gushchin, Emilie Maurice, S. Venditti, G. Lamanna, Yu. G. Kudenko, J. Pinzino, Christopher John Parkinson, Cristina Biino, Nicolas Lurkin, Fascianelli, Tomáš Husek, Dave Britton, N. Estrada-Tristan, A. Shaikhiev, B Doebrich, F. Bucci, Milena Misheva, M. B. Brunetti, Roberto Ammendola, G. D'Agostini, E. Minucci, D. T. Madigozhin, M. Pepe, Duk, L. Di Lella, R. Aliberti, E. Pedreschi, A. Norton, A. Antonelli, O. Hutanu, A. Korotkova, E. Iacopini, Matteo Lupi, M. Mirra, A.I. Zinchenko, M. Zamkovsky, R. Page, A. Filippi, B. Wrona, A. Khotyantsev, F. Marchetto, M. Perrin-Terrin, S. Ghinescu, A. Ceccucci, Piero Vicini, R Lichard, A. Fucci, Helen F Heath, B. Checcucci, R. Marchevski, Antonino Sergi, Andrea Bizzeti, R Cooper, L. Gatignon, M. Corvino, D. Coward, E. Imbergamo, R. Guida, Rainer Wanke, Francesco Gonnella, Tomas Blazek, R Lubrano, A. Cotta Ramusino, S. Martellotti, M. Noy, Mattia Barbanera, N. De Simone, F. Newson, S. Shkarovskiy, H. D. Wahl, J. B. Dainton, Ryjov, M. Medvedeva, P. Petrov, Evgueni Goudzovski, B. Velghe, F. Costantini, B. Jenninger, E. Menichetti, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, L. Iacobuzio, Emilio Leonardi, I. Polenkevich, Falaleev, G. Mannocchi, E. Gamberini, F. Hahn, and Kekelidze

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, European research, Library science, 01 natural sciences, Bildung, Research council, Basic research, 0103 physical sciences, Russian federation, Christian ministry, 010306 general physics, Research center
Abstract

The cost of the experiment and of its auxiliary systems were supported by the funding agencies of the Collaboration Institutes. We are particularly indebted to: F.R.S.-FNRS (Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS), Belgium; BMES (Ministry of Education, Youth and Science), Bulgaria; NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council), Canada; NRC (National Research Council) contribution to TRIUMF, Canada; MEYS (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports), Czech Republic; BMBF (Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung) contracts 05H12UM5 and 05H15UMCNA, Germany; INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Italy; MIUR (Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca), Italy; CONACyT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia), Mexico; IFA (Institute of Atomic Physics), Romania; INR-RAS (Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow, Russia; JINR (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research), Dubna, Russia; NRC (National Research Center) “Kurchatov Institute” and MESRF (Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation), Russia; MESRS (Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport), Slovakia; CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Switzerland; STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council), United Kingdom; NSF (National Science Foundation) Award Number 1506088, U.S.A.; ERC (European Research Council) “UniversaLepto” advanced grant 268062, “KaonLepton” starting grant 336581, Europe. Individuals have received support from: Charles University (project GA UK number 404716), Czech Republic; Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR “Futuro in ricerca 2012” grant RBFR12JF2Z, Project GAP), Italy; Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR grants 18-32-00072, 18-32-00245), Russia; the Royal Society (grants UF100308, UF0758946), United Kingdom; STFC (Rutherford fellowships ST/J00412X/1, ST/M005798/1), United Kingdom; ERC (grants 268062, 336581).

Published
2019

23. Search for three body pion decays π+→l+νX

Author

S. Cuen-Rochin, M. Blecher, D. Vavilov, Song Chen, Masaharu Aoki, D. Protopopescu, Y. Igarashi, L. S. Littenberg, P. Gumplinger, A. Sher, Luca Doria, C. Malbrunot, R. E. Mischke, T. Sullivan, Shintaro Ito, D. Vom Bruch, T. Numao, Dave Britton, Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, S. H. Kettell, Douglas Bryman, J. R. Comfort, Leonid Kurchaninov, and Ahmed Hussein

Subjects
Physics, Crystallography, Pion, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Full data, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Coupling (probability), 01 natural sciences, Boson
Abstract

The three body pion decays π+→l+νX(l=e,μ), where X is a weakly interacting neutral boson, were searched for using the full data set from the PIENU experiment. An improved limit on Γ(π+→e+νX)/Γ(π+→μ+νμ) in the mass range 0

Published
2021

24. Search for a feebly interacting particle X in the decay K+ → π+X

Author

L. Peruzzo, B. Bloch-Devaux, E. Imbergamo, V. Cerny, R. Fantechi, L. Di Lella, D. Emelyanov, Z. Kucerova, S. Padolski, Antonino Sergi, Yu. Potrebenikov, A. Salamon, Paul Laycock, Milena Misheva, A. Antonelli, D. Soldi, V. Palladino, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, K. Massri, R. W. L. Jones, M. Perrin-Terrin, D. Coward, A. Fucci, D. T. Madigozhin, L. Fulton, F. Duval, F. Brizioli, G. Khoriauli, Tommaso Spadaro, A P Ostankov, Fabrizio Petrucci, Rainer Wanke, M. Corvino, Andrea Biagioni, R. Volpe, T. Bache, B. Wrona, G. Lamanna, E. Menichetti, M. Fiorini, A. Baeva, H. D. Wahl, A. Sturgess, J. B. Dainton, Evgueni Goudzovski, J. Fu, Mauro Raggi, G. Lanfranchi, P. F. Dalpiaz, R. Marchevski, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, Leander Litov, M. Koval, J. Swallow, E. Cortina Gil, M. Vormstein, M. Piccini, Jürgen Engelfried, N. Doble, Vladimir Kekelidze, Matteo Lupi, V. Fascianelli, P. Rubin, Yu.A. Kudenko, H. O. Danielsson, Jacopo Pinzino, G. Lehmann Miotto, V. Obraztsov, C. Graham, V. Falaleev, A. Conovaloff, T. Numao, Paolo Valente, D. Protopopescu, A. Mefodev, E. Minucci, N. A. Molokanova, Babette Döbrich, Luca Pontisso, E. Iacopini, Nicolas Lurkin, M. B. Brunetti, V. E. Semenov, I. Mannelli, M. Napolitano, C. J. Parkinson, R. Piandani, L. Federici, V. Kozhuharov, N. Estrada-Tristan, M. Zamkovsky, Dave Britton, Georgi P. Georgiev, Viacheslav Duk, S. Martellotti, J. Jerhot, P. Petrov, B. Angelucci, L. Iacobuzio, E. B. Holzer, V. Sugonyaev, A. Ceccucci, Roberto Ammendola, A. M. Bragadireanu, Andrea Bizzeti, C. Cerri, A. Korotkova, Paolo Massarotti, M. Moulson, S. Trilov, Johannes Bernhard, V. Kurochka, A. Parenti, F. Spinella, D. Baigarashev, Claudio Santoni, A. Filippi, A. I. Zinchenko, Helen F Heath, R. Aliberti, R. Lollini, A. Norton, S. Schuchmann, E. Lari, Karol Kampf, A. Khotyantsev, Ernesto Migliore, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, R. Page, T. Husek, J. Kunze, F. Hahn, S. Ghinescu, T. Capussela, A. Gianoli, B. Velghe, J. Carmignani, Francesco Gonnella, Tomas Blazek, A. Cotta Ramusino, D. Lomidze, D. E. Hutchcroft, Roberto Guida, O. Yushchenko, V. Kurshetsov, S. Kholodenko, B. Checcucci, P. Cooper, B. Jenninger, G. Latino, J. R. Fry, F. Bucci, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, P. Cenci, L. Bician, Roberta Arcidiacono, E. Gushchin, E. Pedreschi, M. Mirra, Matthew Noy, G. D'Agostini, M. Pepe, O. Hutanu, M. Lenti, F. Newson, S. Shkarovskiy, F. Marchetto, Piero Vicini, P. Lichard, A. Kleimenova, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, Emilio Leonardi, I. Polenkevich, M. Medvedeva, Giuseppe Ruggiero, F. Costantini, M. Boretto, M. Sozzi, Ilaria Neri, P. Lubrano, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, Sergei Fedotov, N. De Simone, Vladimir Ryjov, G. Saracino, A. Mapelli, G. Anzivino, S. Giudici, E. Maurice, Alessandro Lonardo, Cristina Biino, Mattia Barbanera, Cortina Gil, E., Kleimenova, A., Minucci, E., Padolski, S., Petrov, P., Shaikhiev, A., Volpe, R., Numao, T., Velghe, B., Bryman, D., Fu, J., Husek, T., Jerhot, J., Kampf, K., Zamkovsky, M., Aliberti, R., Khoriauli, G., Kunze, J., Lomidze, D., Marchevski, R., Peruzzo, L., Vormstein, M., Wanke, R., Dalpiaz, P., Fiorini, M., Neri, I., Norton, A., Petrucci, F., Wahl, H., Cotta Ramusino, A., Gianoli, A., Iacopini, E., Latino, G., Lenti, M., Parenti, A., Bizzeti, A., Bucci, F., Antonelli, A., Georgiev, G., Kozhuharov, V., Lanfranchi, G., Martellotti, S., Moulson, M., Spadaro, T., Ambrosino, F., Capussela, T., Corvino, M., Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Mirra, M., Napolitano, M., Saracino, G., Anzivino, G., Brizioli, F., Imbergamo, E., Lollini, R., Piandani, R., Santoni, C., Barbanera, M., Cenci, P., Checcucci, B., Lubrano, P., Lupi, M., Pepe, M., Piccini, M., Costantini, F., Di Lella, L., Doble, N., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Lamanna, G., Lari, E., Pedreschi, E., Sozzi, M., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Pontisso, L., Spinella, F., Mannelli, I., D???agostini, G., Raggi, M., Biagioni, A., Leonardi, E., Lonardo, A., Valente, P., Vicini, P., Ammendola, R., Bonaiuto, V., Fucci, A., Salamon, A., Sargeni, F., Arcidiacono, R., Bloch-Devaux, B., Boretto, M., Menichetti, E., Migliore, E., Soldi, D., Biino, C., Filippi, A., Marchetto, F., Engelfried, J., Estrada-Tristan, N., Bragadireanu, A. M., Ghinescu, S. A., Hutanu, O. E., Baeva, A., Baigarashev, D., Emelyanov, D., Enik, T., Falaleev, V., Kekelidze, V., Korotkova, A., Litov, L., Madigozhin, D., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Movchan, S., Polenkevich, I., Potrebenikov, Yu., Shkarovskiy, S., Zinchenko, A., Fedotov, S., Gushchin, E., Khotyantsev, A., Kudenko, Y., Kurochka, V., Medvedeva, M., Mefodev, A., Kholodenko, S., Kurshetsov, V., Obraztsov, V., Ostankov, A., Semenov, V., Sugonyaev, V., Yushchenko, O., Bician, L., Blazek, T., Cerny, V., Kucerova, Z., Bernhard, J., Ceccucci, A., Danielsson, H., De Simone, N., Duval, F., D??brich, B., Federici, L., Gamberini, E., Gatignon, L., Guida, R., Hahn, F., Holzer, E. B., Jenninger, B., Koval, M., Laycock, P., Lehmann Miotto, G., Lichard, P., Mapelli, A., Massri, K., Noy, M., Palladino, V., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pinzino, J., Ryjov, V., Schuchmann, S., Venditti, S., Bache, T., Brunetti, M. B., Duk, V., Fascianelli, V., Fry, J. R., Gonnella, F., Goudzovski, E., Iacobuzio, L., Lazzeroni, C., Lurkin, N., Newson, F., Parkinson, C., Romano, A., Sergi, A., Sturgess, A., Swallow, J., Heath, H., Page, R., Trilov, S., Angelucci, B., Britton, D., Graham, C., Protopopescu, D., Carmignani, J., Dainton, J. B., Jones, R. W. L., Ruggiero, G., Fulton, L., Hutchcroft, D., Maurice, E., Wrona, B., Conovaloff, A., Cooper, P., Coward, D., and Rubin, P.

Subjects
Exotics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Dark matter, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Physics, Range (particle radiation), Large Hadron Collider, kaon decays, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Settore FIS/04, Fixed target experiments, Beyond Standard Model, lcsh:QC770-798, Particle, Atomic physics, Particle Physics - Experiment, Order of magnitude
Abstract

A search for the $K^+ \to \pi^+ X$ decay, where $X$ is a long-lived feebly interacting particle, is performed through an interpretation of the $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar\nu$ analysis of data collected in 2017 by the NA62 experiment at CERN. Two ranges of $X$ masses, $0-110$ MeV/$c^2$ and $154-260$ MeV/$c^2$, and lifetimes above 100 ps are considered. The limits set on the branching ratio, BR($K^+ \to \pi^+ X$), are competitive with previously reported searches in the first mass range, and improve on current limits in the second mass range by more than an order of magnitude. A search for the K$^{+}$ → π$^{+}$X decay, where X is a long-lived feebly interacting particle, is performed through an interpretation of the K$^{+}$ → $ {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu} $ analysis of data collected in 2017 by the NA62 experiment at CERN. Two ranges of X masses, 0–110 MeV/c$^{2}$ and 154–260 MeV/c$^{2}$, and lifetimes above 100 ps are considered. The limits set on the branching ratio, BR(K$^{+}$ → π$^{+}$X), are competitive with previously reported searches in the first mass range, and improve on current limits in the second mass range by more than an order of magnitude. A search for the $K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+}X$ decay, where $X$ is a long-lived feebly interacting particle, is performed through an interpretation of the $K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ analysis of data collected in 2017 by the NA62 experiment at CERN. Two ranges of $X$ masses, $0$-$110\,\text{MeV}/c^{2}$ and $154$-$260\,\text{MeV}/c^{2}$, and lifetimes above $100\,\text{ps}$ are considered. The limits set on the branching ratio, $\text{BR}(K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+}X)$, are competitive with previously reported searches in the first mass range, and improve on current limits in the second mass range by more than an order of magnitude.

Published
2021

25. Search for π0 decays to invisible particles

Author

V. Palladino, A. Fucci, M. Boretto, J. Fu, L. Gatignon, E. Cortina Gil, Mattia Barbanera, S. Martellotti, Paul Laycock, B. Angelucci, L. Iacobuzio, E. B. Holzer, M. Sozzi, Mauro Piccini, M. Corvino, T. Bache, Paolo Massarotti, A. Mefodev, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, E. Lari, J. Swallow, H. O. Danielsson, I. Mannelli, P. Rubin, Ilaria Neri, M. Vormstein, N. Estrada-Tristan, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, L. Peruzzo, B. Bloch-Devaux, F. Hahn, D. E. Hutchcroft, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, O. Yushchenko, Sergei Fedotov, Claudio Santoni, Luca Pontisso, B. Velghe, J. Carmignani, A. Filippi, E. Iacopini, A. I. Zinchenko, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, Francesco Gonnella, Tomas Blazek, S. Ghinescu, P. Lubrano, Vladimir Ryjov, L. Federici, G. Lanfranchi, A. Conovaloff, A. Cotta Ramusino, T. Capussela, V. Cerny, A. Gianoli, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Mapelli, L. Di Lella, S. Kholodenko, D. Protopopescu, Roberto Guida, Nicolas Lurkin, M. B. Brunetti, Evgueni Goudzovski, Georgi P. Georgiev, Viacheslav Duk, R. Fantechi, V. E. Semenov, S. Giudici, S. Padolski, E. Imbergamo, Rainer Wanke, M. Perrin-Terrin, Johannes Bernhard, Z. Kucerova, Tommaso Spadaro, Roberto Ammendola, A. Parenti, P. Cooper, Vladimir Kekelidze, N. De Simone, F. Spinella, D. T. Madigozhin, D. Soldi, R. Lollini, A. Korotkova, B. Jenninger, J. R. Fry, Matteo Lupi, Ernesto Migliore, K. Massri, A. Salamon, E. Maurice, P. F. Dalpiaz, R. Marchevski, B. Wrona, Andrea Biagioni, R. Volpe, Alessandro Lonardo, E. Gamberini, F. Brizioli, M. Fiorini, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, P. Petrov, L. Fulton, F. Duval, V. Sugonyaev, E. Minucci, M. Lenti, Mauro Raggi, A. Khotyantsev, F. Bucci, Milena Misheva, R. Aliberti, A. Norton, A. Antonelli, T. Husek, G. Saracino, A. Baeva, J. Jerhot, Cristina Biino, Yu.A. Kudenko, Jürgen Engelfried, N. Doble, G. Anzivino, G. Lamanna, J. Kunze, V. Fascianelli, A. Kleimenova, Antonino Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. B. Dainton, G. Lehmann Miotto, C. Graham, V. Falaleev, D. Emelyanov, Babette Döbrich, C. J. Parkinson, V. Kozhuharov, M. Zamkovsky, R. W. L. Jones, Helen F Heath, Yu. Potrebenikov, Giuseppe Latino, D. Coward, R. Page, C. Cerri, S. Trilov, F. Newson, S. Shkarovskiy, G. Khoriauli, M. Medvedeva, Giuseppe Ruggiero, D. Lomidze, E. Menichetti, F. Costantini, Emilio Leonardi, I. Polenkevich, Jacopo Pinzino, L. Bician, Roberta Arcidiacono, E. Gushchin, P. Cenci, E. Pedreschi, M. Mirra, A. M. Bragadireanu, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, M. Moulson, D. Baigarashev, Karol Kampf, Fabrizio Petrucci, Leander Litov, A P Ostankov, Matthew Noy, M. Koval, H. D. Wahl, G. D'Agostini, N. A. Molokanova, M. Pepe, M. Napolitano, O. Hutanu, F. Marchetto, Piero Vicini, P. Lichard, T. Numao, Paolo Valente, R. Piandani, Dave Britton, A. Ceccucci, B. Checcucci, Andrea Bizzeti, V. Kurochka, S. Schuchmann, Cortina Gil, E., Kleimenova, A., Minucci, E., Padolski, S., Petrov, P., Shaikhiev, A., Volpe, R., Numao, T., Velghe, B., Bryman, D., Fu, J., Husek, T., Jerhot, J., Kampf, K., Zamkovsky, M., Aliberti, R., Khoriauli, G., Kunze, J., Lomidze, D., Marchevski, R., Peruzzo, L., Vormstein, M., Wanke, R., Dalpiaz, P., Fiorini, M., Neri, I., Norton, A., Petrucci, F., Wahl, H., Cotta Ramusino, A., Gianoli, A., Iacopini, E., Latino, G., Lenti, M., Parenti, A., Bizzeti, A., Bucci, F., Antonelli, A., Georgiev, G., Kozhuharov, V., Lanfranchi, G., Martellotti, S., Moulson, M., Spadaro, T., Ambrosino, F., Capussela, T., Corvino, M., Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Mirra, M., Napolitano, M., Saracino, G., Anzivino, G., Brizioli, F., Imbergamo, E., Lollini, R., Piandani, R., Santoni, C., Barbanera, M., Cenci, P., Checcucci, B., Lubrano, P., Lupi, M., Pepe, M., Piccini, M., Costantini, F., Di Lella, L., Doble, N., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Lamanna, G., Lari, E., Pedreschi, E., Sozzi, M., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Pontisso, L., Spinella, F., Mannelli, I., D???agostini, G., Raggi, M., Biagioni, A., Leonardi, E., Lonardo, A., Valente, P., Vicini, P., Ammendola, R., Bonaiuto, V., Fucci, A., Salamon, A., Sargeni, F., Arcidiacono, R., Bloch-Devaux, B., Boretto, M., Menichetti, E., Migliore, E., Soldi, D., Biino, C., Filippi, A., Marchetto, F., Engelfried, J., Estrada-Tristan, N., Bragadireanu, A. M., Ghinescu, S. A., Hutanu, O. E., Baeva, A., Baigarashev, D., Emelyanov, D., Enik, T., Falaleev, V., Kekelidze, V., Korotkova, A., Litov, L., Madigozhin, D., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Movchan, S., Polenkevich, I., Potrebenikov, Y., Shkarovskiy, S., Zinchenko, A., Fedotov, S., Gushchin, E., Khotyantsev, A., Kudenko, Y., Kurochka, V., Medvedeva, M., Mefodev, A., Kholodenko, S., Kurshetsov, V., Obraztsov, V., Ostankov, A., Semenov, V., Sugonyaev, V., Yushchenko, O., Bician, L., Blazek, T., Cerny, V., Kucerova, Z., Bernhard, J., Ceccucci, A., Danielsson, H., De Simone, N., Duval, F., D??brich, B., Federici, L., Gamberini, E., Gatignon, L., Guida, R., Hahn, F., Holzer, E. B., Jenninger, B., Koval, M., Laycock, P., Lehmann Miotto, G., Lichard, P., Mapelli, A., Massri, K., Noy, M., Palladino, V., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pinzino, J., Ryjov, V., Schuchmann, S., Venditti, S., Bache, T., Brunetti, M. B., Duk, V., Fascianelli, V., Fry, J. R., Gonnella, F., Goudzovski, E., Iacobuzio, L., Lazzeroni, C., Lurkin, N., Newson, F., Parkinson, C., Romano, A., Sergi, A., Sturgess, A., Swallow, J., Heath, H., Page, R., Trilov, S., Angelucci, B., Britton, D., Graham, C., Protopopescu, D., Carmignani, J., Dainton, J. B., Jones, R. W. L., Ruggiero, G., Fulton, L., Hutchcroft, D., Maurice, E., Wrona, B., Conovaloff, A., Cooper, P., Coward, D., and Rubin, P.

Subjects
Exotics, branching ratio: upper limit [pi0], Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Meson, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, NA62, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment, 0103 physical sciences, mixing, ddc:530, fluctuation [background], pi0: branching ratio: upper limit, K: branching ratio, 010306 general physics, invisible decay [pi0], Physics, lifetime, Range (particle radiation), Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Settore FIS/04, branching ratio [K], pi0: invisible decay, Fermion, CERN SPS, hidden sector, Fixed target experiments, Rare decay, coupling [fermion], Beyond Standard Model, Higgs boson, axion-like particles, background: fluctuation, High Energy Physics::Experiment, fermion: coupling, Particle Physics - Experiment, experimental results
Abstract

Journal of high energy physics 02(2), 201 (2021). doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2021)201, 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 the expected background fluctuations. An upper limit of $4.4 \times10^{-9}$ is set on the branching ratio at 90% confidence level, improving on previous results by a factor of 60. This result can also be interpreted as a model-independent upper limit on the branching ratio for the decay $K^+ \to \pi^+ X$, where $X$ is a particle escaping detection with mass in the range 0.110-0.155 GeV$/c^2$ and rest lifetime greater than 100 ps. Model-dependent upper limits are obtained assuming $X$ to be an axion-like particle with dominant fermion couplings or a dark scalar mixing with the Standard Model Higgs boson., Published by SISSA, [Trieste]

Published
2021

26. Search for heavy neutrinos in \(\pi ^{ + } \to \mu ^{ + }\nu \) decay and status of lepton universality test in the PIENU experiment

Author

T. Numao, Douglas Bryman, Chloé Malbrunot, P. Gumplinger, S. Cuen-Rochin, Dave Britton, Ahmed Hussein, A. Sher, D. Protopopescu, J. R. Comfort, L. S. Littenberg, T. Sullivan, Y. Igarashi, R. E. Mischke, Leonid Kurchaninov, Song Chen, S. Ito, S. H. Kettell, D. Vom Bruch, M. Blecher, Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, Luca Doria, D. Vavilov, Masaharu Aoki, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Muon, +muon%2B+neutrino%22">pi+ --> muon+ neutrino, pi: decay, neutrino: heavy: search for, Universality (philosophy), Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix, kinetic, energy spectrum, Kinetic energy, Pion, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, neutrino: mixing, Order of magnitude, Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton, experimental results, lepton: universality
Abstract

International audience; In the present work of the PIENU experiment, heavy neutrinos were sought in pion decays \(\pi ^{ + } \to \mu ^{ + }\nu \). No evidence for extra peak was found in the muon kinetic energy spectrum and 90% confidence level upper limits were set on the neutrino mixing matrix \(|U_{\mu i}|^{2}\) in the mass range of 15.7 to 33.8 MeV/c^2, improving an order of magnitude over previous experiments. Current status of lepton universality test is also reported.

Published
2021

27. Measurement of the very rare K^{+} + →{\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu}π + ν ν decay

Author

Paul Laycock, L. Di Lella, D. Lomidze, Yu. Potrebenikov, Vladimir Ryjov, D. E. Hutchcroft, O. Yushchenko, G. Saracino, Giuseppe Latino, D. Coward, E. Cortina Gil, M. Perrin-Terrin, Antonino Sergi, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, A. Mapelli, G. Lanfranchi, V. Kurshetsov, V. Fascianelli, Rainer Wanke, B. Wrona, S. Kholodenko, S. Giudici, V. Palladino, Y. Petrov, F. Marchetto, F. Hahn, Piero Vicini, A. Fucci, Mattia Barbanera, V. Kurochka, Yu.A. Kudenko, A. Sturgess, G. Anzivino, V. Cerny, S. Padolski, P. Cooper, M. Boretto, J. B. Dainton, P. Lichard, N. A. Molokanova, A. Korotkova, J. Henshaw, S. Ghinescu, Georgi P. Georgiev, Viacheslav Duk, A. Kleimenova, M. Sozzi, B. Jenninger, B. Velghe, J. Carmignani, S. Schuchmann, E. Pedreschi, M. Napolitano, Ilaria Neri, C. Cerri, Roberto Ammendola, S. Trilov, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, Sergei Fedotov, L. Gatignon, Emilio Leonardi, Fabrizio Petrucci, N. Doble, E. Minucci, P. Lubrano, D. Soldi, Andrea Biagioni, R. Volpe, M. Fiorini, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, M. Mirra, V. Sugonyaev, A. Norton, Leander Litov, I. Polenkevich, V. Kozhuharov, M. Zamkovsky, G. Khoriauli, Alessandro Lonardo, A P Ostankov, Johannes Bernhard, S. Movchan, Matthew Noy, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, N. De Simone, P. Rubin, Mauro Piccini, E. Maurice, R. Aliberti, M. Koval, D. T. Madigozhin, Paolo Massarotti, A. Parenti, J. Jerhot, M. Vormstein, E. Menichetti, F. Spinella, Cristina Biino, K. Massri, A. Baeva, J. R. Fry, Helen F Heath, H. O. Danielsson, E. Lari, Evgueni Goudzovski, R. Lollini, G. Lehmann Miotto, G. D'Agostini, A. M. Bragadireanu, L. Bician, D. Protopopescu, Nicolas Lurkin, M. Medvedeva, Giuseppe Ruggiero, C. Graham, A. Salamon, M. Pepe, E. Iacopini, Roberta Arcidiacono, D. Emelyanov, Ernesto Migliore, M. B. Brunetti, M. Corvino, T. Bache, M. Moulson, V. Falaleev, J. Kunze, F. Brizioli, O. Hutanu, E. Gushchin, D. Baigarashev, J. Swallow, T. Numao, Karol Kampf, Matteo Lupi, Babette Döbrich, R. W. L. Jones, Paolo Valente, L. Fulton, F. Duval, J. L. Fu, Luca Pontisso, Jacopo Pinzino, Claudio Santoni, R. Fantechi, F. Costantini, A. Filippi, A. I. Zinchenko, V. Obraztsov, Dave Britton, A. Conovaloff, C. J. Parkinson, G. Lamanna, H. Wahl, L. Federici, V. E. Semenov, L. Peruzzo, S. Martellotti, T. Capussela, A. Ceccucci, A. Gianoli, M. Lenti, B. Bloch-Devaux, B. Angelucci, L. Iacobuzio, E. B. Holzer, P. Cenci, Vladimir Kekelidze, B. Checcucci, Andrea Bizzeti, Roberto Guida, E. Imbergamo, R. Piandani, T. Husek, F. Newson, S. Shkarovskiy, Mauro Raggi, R. Page, Z. Kucerova, F. Bucci, Milena Misheva, A. Antonelli, P. F. Dalpiaz, R. Marchevski, E. Gamberini, Jürgen Engelfried, Tommaso Spadaro, Francesco Gonnella, Tomas Blazek, A. Cotta Ramusino, P. Petrov, A. Khotyantsev, A. Mefodev, I. Mannelli, N. Estrada-Tristan, and UCL - SST/IRMP - Institut de recherche en mathématique et physique

Subjects
Physics, FCNC Interaction, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, hep-ex, Flavour Changing Neutral Currents, Analytical chemistry, QC770-798, 01 natural sciences, Standard Model, Flavor physics, Rare decay, Fixed target experiments, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, 0103 physical sciences, Sensitivity (control systems), 010306 general physics, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The NA62 experiment reports the branching ratio measurement $$ \mathrm{BR}\left({K}^{+}\to {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu}\right)=\left({10.6}_{-3.4}^{+4.0}\left|{}_{\mathrm{stat}}\right.\pm {0.9}_{\mathrm{syst}}\right)\times {10}^{-11} $$ BR K + → π + ν ν ¯ = 10.6 − 3.4 + 4.0 stat ± 0.9 syst × 10 − 11 at 68% CL, based on the observation of 20 signal candidates with an expected background of 7.0 events from the total data sample collected at the CERN SPS during 2016–2018. This provides evidence for the very rare K+→$$ {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu} $$ π + ν ν ¯ decay, observed with a significance of 3.4σ. The experiment achieves a single event sensitivity of (0.839 ± 0.054) × 10−11, corresponding to 10.0 events assuming the Standard Model branching ratio of (8.4 ± 1.0) × 10−11. This measurement is also used to set limits on BR(K+→ π+X), where X is a scalar or pseudo-scalar particle. Details are given of the analysis of the 2018 data sample, which corresponds to about 80% of the total data sample.

Published
2021

28. An investigation of the very rare $ {K}^{+}\to {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu} $ decay

Author

H. O. Danielsson, Luca Pontisso, L. Federici, P. F. Dalpiaz, R. Marchevski, E. Gamberini, Jürgen Engelfried, A. Sturgess, Vladimir Ryjov, J. B. Dainton, Antonino Sergi, Paul Laycock, Fabrizio Petrucci, M. Medvedeva, Giuseppe Ruggiero, T. Numao, Paolo Valente, D. E. Hutchcroft, F. Marchetto, M. Lenti, M. Perrin-Terrin, D. Lomidze, Piero Vicini, O. Yushchenko, L. Peruzzo, S. Martellotti, A. Mapelli, V. Palladino, F. Costantini, P. Lubrano, P. Lichard, B. Angelucci, B. Bloch-Devaux, L. Bician, Leander Litov, G. Lanfranchi, V. Obraztsov, L. Iacobuzio, E. B. Holzer, S. Giudici, P. Rubin, J. R. Fry, Tommaso Spadaro, R. Piandani, A. Fucci, Roberta Arcidiacono, F. Hahn, Vladimir Kekelidze, V. Kurshetsov, Georgi P. Georgiev, E. Cortina Gil, D. Emelyanov, V. E. Semenov, Dave Britton, Mattia Barbanera, Viacheslav Duk, N. De Simone, S. Kholodenko, E. Gushchin, M. Boretto, G. Lehmann Miotto, C. Graham, E. Maurice, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, A. Ceccucci, E. Iacopini, V. Falaleev, B. Checcucci, L. Di Lella, Roberto Ammendola, F. Ambrosino, Andrea Bizzeti, Babette Döbrich, P. Cooper, G. D'Agostini, B. Velghe, J. Carmignani, E. Minucci, M. Sozzi, V. Cerny, Claudio Santoni, M. Pepe, Johannes Bernhard, E. Pedreschi, Andrea Biagioni, R. Volpe, C. J. Parkinson, S. Padolski, F. Newson, S. Shkarovskiy, M. Fiorini, R. Page, A. Filippi, A. I. Zinchenko, J. Fu, Rainer Wanke, O. Hutanu, A. Mefodev, H. D. Wahl, Yu. Potrebenikov, Francesco Gonnella, R. Fantechi, B. Wrona, A. Parenti, A. Salamon, L. Gatignon, J. Jerhot, Giuseppe Latino, M. Mirra, Z. Kucerova, I. Mannelli, N. Estrada-Tristan, G. Saracino, D. Coward, F. Brizioli, M. Koval, F. Spinella, T. Capussela, Evgueni Goudzovski, A. Gianoli, Mauro Piccini, Roberto Guida, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, Tomas Blazek, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, Paolo Massarotti, R. Lollini, Ilaria Neri, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, G. Anzivino, Yu.A. Kudenko, T. Enik, Tomáš Husek, Douglas Bryman, Sergei Fedotov, A P Ostankov, V. Sugonyaev, F. Bucci, A. Cotta Ramusino, V. Kozhuharov, Milena Misheva, V. Kurochka, Ernesto Migliore, M. Zamkovsky, Matthew Noy, Mauro Raggi, E. Lari, R. W. L. Jones, D. T. Madigozhin, G. Khoriauli, M. Corvino, Alessandro Lonardo, M. Vormstein, T. Bache, Emilio Leonardi, S. Ghinescu, S. Schuchmann, R. Aliberti, A. Norton, Matteo Lupi, A. Antonelli, Helen F Heath, I. Polenkevich, D. Soldi, P. Cenci, Cristina Biino, K. Massri, A. M. Bragadireanu, B. Jenninger, D. Protopopescu, E. Menichetti, Nicolas Lurkin, M. B. Brunetti, J. Kunze, L. Fulton, F. Duval, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, M. Moulson, V. Fascianelli, P. Petrov, D. Baigarashev, A. Khotyantsev, Karol Kampf, E. Imbergamo, Jacopo Pinzino, G. Lamanna, N. Doble, A. Kleimenova, N. A. Molokanova, M. Napolitano, C. Cerri, S. Trilov, A. Korotkova, A. Baeva, J. Swallow, A. Conovaloff, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and European Project: 268062,EC:FP7:ERC,ERC-2010-AdG_20100224,UNIVERSALEPTO(2011)

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Flavour Changing Neutral Currents, 01 natural sciences, Standard Model, Flavor physics, Fixed target experiments, Rare decay, 0103 physical sciences, Pi, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], ddc:530, Sensitivity (control systems), 010306 general physics
Abstract

The NA62 experiment reports an investigation of the $$ {K}^{+}\to {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu} $$ K + → π + ν ν ¯ mode from a sample of K+ decays collected in 2017 at the CERN SPS. The experiment has achieved a single event sensitivity of (0.389 ± 0.024) × 10−10, corresponding to 2.2 events assuming the Standard Model branching ratio of (8.4 ± 1.0) × 10−11. Two signal candidates are observed with an expected background of 1.5 events. Combined with the result of a similar analysis conducted by NA62 on a smaller data set recorded in 2016, the collaboration now reports an upper limit of 1.78 × 10−10 for the $$ {K}^{+}\to {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu} $$ K + → π + ν ν ¯ branching ratio at 90% CL. This, together with the corresponding 68% CL measurement of ($$ {0.48}_{-0.48}^{+0.72} $$ 0.48 − 0.48 + 0.72 ) × 10−10, are currently the most precise results worldwide, and are able to constrain some New Physics models that predict large enhancements still allowed by previous measurements.

Published
2020

29. Search for the rare decays π+→μ+νμνν¯ and π+→e+νeνν¯

Author

P. Gumplinger, Leonid Kurchaninov, D. Vavilov, Douglas Bryman, Chloé Malbrunot, D. Protopopescu, Ahmed Hussein, M. Blecher, L. S. Littenberg, A. Sher, Song Chen, J. R. Comfort, T. Sullivan, S. Cuen-Rochin, D. Kalashnikov, Masato Aoki, T. Numao, R. E. Mischke, Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, S. H. Kettell, Dave Britton, D. Gorbunov, Shintaro Ito, Y. Igarashi, L. Doria, and D. Vom Bruch

Subjects
Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, Atomic physics, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences
Published
2020

31. COMET Phase-I technical design report

Author

Y. Nakatsugawa, C. V. Tao, Y. Nakamura, Y. Ban, T. Kachelhoffer, Arsen Khvedelidze, G. Kumsiashvili, Minoru Yoshida, Alexey Volkov, T. Kormoll, Zainol Abidin Ibrahim, I. Trekov, Yu Nakazawa, Tsutomu Mibe, M. J. Lee, Tamaki Yoshioka, Paul Dauncey, N. Miyamoto, S. Hashimoto, Kai Zuber, E. Gillies, P. Jonsson, P. J. Dornan, Zviad Tsamalaidze, J. Tojo, H. Nakai, K. Sasaki, N. Kazak, Yoshitaka Eguchi, Dietmar Bauer, V. Ponariadov, Jordan Nash, P. Sarin, A. M. Teixeira, Jie Zhang, H. Yamaguchi, Y. Zhang, K. Ueno, F. Mohamad Idris, J. Tang, A. Sato, J. C. Angélique, T. Yano, O. Kemularia, M. Tomášek, T. Hayashi, L. B. Epshteyn, G. Kozlov, R. P. Litchfield, S. J. Chen, A. Kurup, Benjamin Krikler, T. Yamane, T. Ota, Y. Miyazaki, M. Koike, Joe Sato, A. Jansen, Kazuki Okamoto, I. H. Hashim, M. S. Nioradze, Tengizi Toriashvili, Y. Tevzadze, Y. K. Semertzidis, E. Kaneva, Yasuhiro Makida, C. Wu, W. Da Silva, Yoshitaka Kuno, Michael Finger Jr, C. Cârloganu, Eitaro Hamada, Rei Kawashima, Y. Fukao, I. Lomidze, K. A. Mohamed Kamal Azmi, W. C. Yao, R. Abramishvili, T. Y. Xing, Yang Yang, G. Quémener, T. T. H. Loan, Y. E. Cheung, G. V. Fedotovich, A. Melnik, T. Takayanagi, Tatsushi Nakamoto, R. R. Akhmetshin, Kou Oishi, Dz. Shoukavy, Masami Iio, T. Thanh, Jaroslaw Pasternak, J. Odell, Saki Ohta, F. Ignatov, K. Okinaka, O. Markin, Hajime Nishiguchi, Vladimir Rusinov, Satoshi Mihara, K. Noguchi, C. Densham, X. S. Jiang, P. Warin-Charpentier, M. Slunecka, Y. Uchida, T. Numao, Masashi Tanaka, C. Omori, Yurii Kurochkin, A. Drutskoy, G. Ban, D. N. Grigoriev, M. Yamanaka, T. T. Chau, Masaharu Aoki, Vaclav Vrba, V. Niess, S. S. Tolmachev, A. Paulau, Vassili Kazanin, A. Issadykov, N. Tsverava, T. Motoishi, D. Baygarashev, T. Tachimoto, J. L. Gabriel, D. Aznabayev, Yuki Fujii, Iuri Bagaturia, P. Loveridge, Jin Shei Lai, A. Yamamoto, V. H. Hai, Manabu Moritsu, D. Lomidze, H. Natori, A. Allin, Yuki Nakai, H. Katayama, Yohei Matsuda, Takahiro Okamura, Kiyotomo Kawagoe, A. Bondar, A. Melkadze, H. Trang, E. P. Velicheva, V. Duginov, M. L. Wong, T. S. Wong, Y. Mori, A. A. Ruban, M. Sugano, H. Sakamoto, Y. Igarashi, V. Anishchik, G.G. Macharashvili, Maxim V. Zdorovets, Hidetomo Yoshida, D. Stöckinger, George Adamov, M. Kravchenko, Yoshiaki Kuriyama, Hai-Bo Li, K. Gritsay, J. K. Chen, Toru Ogitsu, N. Shigyo, Yu.V. Yudin, B. Lagrange, F. Kapusta, T. Hiasa, T. Uchida, Masahito Tomizawa, Y. J. Mao, W. A. T. Wan Abdullah, S. Fayer, P. Evtoukhovich, V. A. Kalinnikov, O. Hayashi, B. Yeo, W. G. Li, K. Ishibashi, A. Moiseenko, D. Picters, T. Itahashi, B. Carniol, A. N. Kozyrev, B. M. Sabirov, G. G. Devidze, Y. Yuan, Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont (LPC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3 (CC-IN2P3), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), COMET, Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), The Royal Society, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, C01 Electroweak model, Proton, data acquisition, NEUTRINO MASSES, General Physics and Astronomy, beyond the standard model, drift chamber: drift tube, beam transport, cosmic background radiation, pi: production, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Physics, Particles & Fields, High Energy Physics - Experiment, LEPTON-FLAVOR VIOLATION, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), +electron+nucleus%22">muon- nucleus --> electron nucleus, C08 Tests of conservation laws, muon: particle source, physics.ins-det, Physics, Higgs bosons, track data analysis, DOUBLE-BETA-DECAY, lepton: flavor: violation, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), H10 Experimental detector systems, Physical Sciences, SIMULATION, intense muon physics, Particle physics, Comet, Physics, Multidisciplinary, Cosmic background radiation, FOS: Physical sciences, programming, C30 Experiments using hadron beams, SCINTILLATOR, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Sensitivity (control systems), [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, numerical calculations, DETECTOR, spatial resolution, activity report, detector: design, Muon, Science & Technology, electroweak symmetry breaking, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, hep-ex, muon: yield, MUON, CONSTRAINTS, bibliography, trigger, CONVERSION, calorimeter: electromagnetic, electronics: readout, RADIATION, charged lepton flavour violation, construction technologies and materials, Lepton, H50 Detector system design
Abstract

The Technical Design for the COMET Phase-I experiment is presented in this paper. COMET is an experiment at J-PARC, Japan, which will search for neutrinoless conversion of muons into electrons in the field of an aluminium nucleus ($\mu-e$ conversion, $\mu^- N \to e^- N$); a lepton flavor violating process. The experimental sensitivity goal for this process in the Phase-I experiment is $3.1\times10^{-15}$, or 90 % upper limit of branching ratio of $7\times 10^{-15}$, which is a factor of 100 improvement over the existing limit. The expected number of background events is 0.032. To achieve the target sensitivity and background level, the 3.2 kW 8 GeV proton beam from J-PARC will be used. Two types of detectors, CyDet and StrECAL, will be used for detecting the \mue conversion events, and for measuring the beam-related background events in view of the Phase-II experiment, respectively. Results from simulation on signal and background estimations are also described., Comment: A minor correction applied in Eq. 3

Published
2020

32. Searches for lepton flavour and lepton number violation in K$^+$ decays

Author

G. Mannocchi, Tomáš Husek, K. Massri, P. S. Cooper, D. T. Madigozhin, D. Soldi, R. Marchevski, Antonino Sergi, F. Hahn, Matteo Lupi, J. R. Fry, C. Cerri, S. Trilov, V. Kurochka, R. Guida, T. Bache, L. Iacobuzio, S. Schuchmann, R. Fantechi, P. F. Dalpiaz, M. Raggi A. Romano, Claudio Santoni, Emilio Leonardi, Christopher John Parkinson, L. Fulton, F. Duval, David Lomidze, Roberto Piandani, J. Kunze, E. Minucci, A. Filippi, G. D'Agostini, M. Pepe, V. Sugonyaev, G. Saracino, A.I. Zinchenko, N. Doble, I. Polenkevich, A. Mefodev, D. Coward, O. Hutanu, Jürgen Engelfried, E. Pedreschi, V. Fascianelli, R. Aliberti, A. Norton, T. Capussela, A. Gianoli, V. Obraztsov, F. Bucci, G. Ruggiero, J. Carmignani, V. E. Semenov, Milena Misheva, M. Mirra, G. Lehmann Miotto, G. Lamanna, I. Mannelli, P. Petrov, C. Graham, Babette Döbrich, Yu. Kudenko, G. Anzivino, A. Sturgess, N. A. Molokanova, Evgueni Goudzovski, H. O. Danielsson, Mattia Barbanera, D. E. Hutchcroft, S. Padolski, M. Sozzi, V. Palladino, Fausto Sargeni, A. Antonelli, M. Napolitano, O. Yushchenko, Luca Pontisso, V. Kurshetsov, E. Gamberini, M. Fiorini, A. Fucci, Angelo Biagioni, A P Ostankov, T. Numao, S. Kholodenko, Ilaria Neri, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, B. Angelucci, R. Volpe, Roberta Arcidiacono, B. Velghe, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, L. Peruzzo, B. Bloch-Devaux, Sergei Fedotov, Vladimir Kekelidze, B. Jenninger, Alessandro Lonardo, Mauro Piccini, Paolo Massarotti, E. Lari, E. Gushchin, F. Newson, V. Cerny, Rainer Wanke, Aigul Baeva, R. D. page, Augusto Ceccucci, Z. Kucerova, F. Marchetto, Piero Vicini, L. Gatignon, M. Corvino, D. Protopopescu, Emilie Maurice, Nicolas Lurkin, Mario Giorgi, P. Rubin, D. Di Filippo, S. Shkarovskiy, M. B. Brunetti, G. Khoriauli, M. Lenti, R. W. L. Jones, Yu. Potrebenikov, P. Lichard, E. Iacopini, Giuseppe Latino, J. B. Dainton, M. Perrin-Terrin, Cristina Biino, J. Jerhot, L. Di Lella, Tommaso Spadaro, M. Boretto, V. Kozhuharov, M. Zamkovsky, Vladimir Ryjov, Johannes Bernhard, Helen F Heath, A. Parenti, F. Spinella, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, R. Lollini, Ernesto Migliore, A. Mapelli, B. Wrona, P. Lubrano, S. Giudici, M. Vormstein, P. Cenci, J. L. Fu, M. Koval, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, A. Khotyantsev, S. Ghinescu, M. Bragadireanu, A. Korotkova, E. Imbergamo, V. Falaleev, Francesco Gonnella, L. Bician, Luca Federici, J. Swallow, Tomas Blazek, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Conovaloff, J. Pinzino, Fabrizio Petrucci, Leander Litov, A. Kleimenova, Y. Petrov, Georgi P. Georgiev, Viacheslav Duk, Roberto Ammendola, A. Salamon, F. Brizioli, M. Moulson, Paul Laycock, Karol Kampf, H. D. Wahl, Paolo Valente, G. Lanfranchi, Dave Britton, N. Estrada-Tristan, B. Checcucci, Andrea Bizzeti, S. Martellotti, E. B. Holzer, M. Noy, E. Menichetti, N. De Simone, M. Medvedeva, and F. Costantini

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Range (particle radiation), Large Hadron Collider, Settore FIS/04, Flavour, NA62 experiment, Lepton number, Charged particle, Standard Model (mathematical formulation), High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton
Abstract

The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is designed to conduct precision tests of the Standard Model by studying rare decays of charged kaons. NA62 took data in 2016-2018 and collected a large sample of charged kaon decays into final states with multiple charged particles. The sensitivity to a range of lepton flavour and lepton number violating kaon decays provided by this data set is improved over the previously reported measurements. Results from the searches of $K^+→ π^-l^+l^+$ decays with a partial NA62 data sample are presented.

Published
2020

33. Search forK+→π+νν‾at NA62

Author

R. Volpe, G. Aglieri Rinella, R. Aliberti, F. Ambrosino, R. Ammendola, B. Angelucci, A. Antonelli, G. Anzivino, R. Arcidiacono, I. Azhinenko, S. Balev, M. Barbanera, J. Bendotti, A. Biagioni, L. Bician, C. Biino, A. Bizzeti, T. Blazek, A. Blik, B. Bloch-Devaux, V. Bolotov, V. Bonaiuto, M. Boretto, M. Bragadireanu, D. Britton, G. Britvich, M.B. Brunetti, D. Bryman, F. Bucci, F. Butin, E. Capitolo, C. Capoccia, T. Capussela, A. Cassese, A. Catinaccio, A. Cecchetti, A. Ceccucci, P. Cenci, V. Cerny, C. Cerri, B. Checcucci, O. Chikilev, S. Chiozzi, R. Ciaranfi, G. Collazuol, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooke, P. Cooper, G. Corradi, E. Cortina Gil, F. Costantini, F. Cotorobai, A. Cotta Ramusino, D. Coward, G. D'Agostini, J. Dainton, P. Dalpiaz, H. Danielsson, J. Degrange, N. De Simone, D. Di Filippo, L. Di Lella, S. Di Lorenzo, N. Dixon, N. Doble, B. Dobrich, V. Duk, V. Elsha, J. Engelfried, T. Enik, N. Estrada, V. Falaleev, R. Fantechi, V. Fascianelli, L. Federici, S. Fedotov, M. Fiorini, J. Fry, J. Fu, A. Fucci, L. Fulton, S. Gallorini, S. Galeotti, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, G. Georgiev, A. Gianoli, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, L. Glonti, A. Goncalves Martins, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, R. Guida, E. Gushchin, F. Hahn, B. Hallgren, H. Heath, F. Herman, T. Husek, O. Hutanu, D. Hutchcroft, L. Iacobuzio, E. Iacopini, E. Imbergamo, O. Jamet, P. Jarron, E. Jones, T. Jones, K. Kampf, J. Kaplon, V. Kekelidze, S. Kholodenko, G. Khoriauli, A. Khotyantsev, A. Khudyakov, Yu. Kiryushin, A. Kleimenova, K. Kleinknecht, A. Kluge, M. Koval, V. Kozhuharov, M. Krivda, Z. Kucerova, Yu. Kudenko, J. Kunze, G. Lamanna, G. Latino, C. Lazzeroni, G. Lehmann-Miotto, R. Lenci, M. Lenti, E. Leonardi, P. Lichard, R. Lietava, L. Litov, R. Lollini, D. Lomidze, A. Lonardo, M. Lupi, N. Lurkin, K. McCormick, D. Madigozhin, G. Maire, C. Mandeiro, I. Mannelli, G. Mannocchi, A. Mapelli, F. Marchetto, R. Marchevski, S. Martellotti, P. Massarotti, K. Massri, P. Matak, E. Maurice, A. Mefodev, E. Menichetti, E. Minucci, M. Mirra, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, J. Morant, M. Morel, M. Moulson, S. Movchan, D. Munday, M. Napolitano, I. Neri, F. Newson, A. Norton, M. Noy, G. Nuessle, T. Numao, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, S. Padolski, R. Page, V. Palladino, G. Paoluzzi, C. Parkinson, E. Pedreschi, M. Pepe, F. Perez Gomez, M. Perrin-Terrin, L. Peruzzo, P. Petrov, F. Petrucci, R. Piandani, M. Piccini, D. Pietreanu, J. Pinzino, I. Polenkevich, L. Pontisso, Yu. Potrebenikov, D. Protopopescu, F. Raffaelli, M. Raggi, P. Riedler, A. Romano, P. Rubin, G. Ruggiero, V. Russo, V. Ryjov, A. Salamon, G. Salina, V. Samsonov, C. Santoni, G. Saracino, F. Sargeni, V. Semenov, A. Sergi, M. Serra, A. Shaikhiev, S. Shkarovskiy, I. Skillicorn, D. Soldi, A. Sotnikov, V. Sugonyaev, M. Sozzi, T. Spadaro, F. Spinella, R. Staley, A. Sturgess, P. Sutcliffe, N. Szilasi, D. Tagnani, S. Trilov, M. Valdata-Nappi, P. Valente, M. Vasile, T. Vassilieva, B. Velghe, M. Veltri, S. Venditti, P. Vicini, M. Vormstein, H. Wahl, R. Wanke, P. Wertelaers, A. Winhart, R. Winston, B. Wrona, O. Yushchenko, M. Zamkovsky, and A. Zinchenko

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics beyond the Standard Model, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, Measure (mathematics), Nuclear physics, Quality (physics), 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics
Abstract

Among the meson decays, K → π ν ν ‾ are the cleanest environment, from the theoretical point of view, where to search for new physics effects. The NA62 Experiment at CERN SPS aims to measure the BR ( K + → π + ν ν ‾ ) with a 10% precision by the end of 2018. It has been commissioned with technical runs in 2014 and 2015, and some preliminary results of the detector performances and quality of data are here reported.

Published
2017

34. Search for heavy neutrinos in π → μν decay

Author

T. Numao, Dave Britton, M. Blecher, A. Sher, Y. Igarashi, Douglas Bryman, P. Gumplinger, J. R. Comfort, S. Cuen-Rochin, Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, Leonid Kurchaninov, Song Chen, L. S. Littenberg, Luca Doria, D. Vavilov, R. E. Mischke, Masaharu Aoki, D. Vom Bruch, S. Ito, C. Malbrunot, Ahmed Hussein, S. H. Kettell, D. Protopopescu, and T. Sullivan

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix, 01 natural sciences, lcsh:QC1-999, Pion, 0103 physical sciences, Energy spectrum, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Heavy neutrino, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Order of magnitude, lcsh:Physics
Abstract

In the present work of the PIENU experiment, heavy neutrinos were sought in pion decays pi(+) -> mu(+)nu at rest by examining the observed muon energy spectrum for extra peaks in addition to the expected peak for a light neutrino. No evidence for heavy neutrinos was observed. Upper limits were set on the neutrino mixing matrix vertical bar U-mu i vertical bar(2) in the neutrino mass region of 15.7-33.8 MeV/c(2), improving on previous results by an order of magnitude. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Published
2019

35. Search for production of an invisible dark photon in (0) decays

Author

T. Numao, Paolo Valente, G. Mannocchi, Milena Misheva, M. Perrin-Terrin, Mattia Barbanera, S. Martellotti, A. Salamon, Dave Britton, B. Angelucci, L. Iacobuzio, E. B. Holzer, F. Brizioli, J. Jerhot, A. Ceccucci, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, Andrea Bizzeti, P. Cenci, Paul Laycock, F. Hahn, E. Pedreschi, V. Kurochka, N. A. Molokanova, M. Mirra, R. Page, A. Sturgess, J. B. Dainton, P. Lubrano, Roberta Arcidiacono, D. Soldi, S. Schuchmann, E. Gushchin, K. Massri, R. Fantechi, V. Cerny, Tomáš Husek, M. Napolitano, J. Kunze, N. De Simone, S. Padolski, Vladimir Kekelidze, D. T. Madigozhin, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, Evgueni Goudzovski, G. Lanfranchi, E. Maurice, L. Fulton, F. Duval, A. M. Bragadireanu, Rainer Wanke, L. Peruzzo, Cristina Biino, E. Minucci, M. Vormstein, M. Moulson, M. Lenti, P. F. Dalpiaz, R. Marchevski, H. D. Wahl, Andrea Biagioni, R. Volpe, M. Fiorini, B. Bloch-Devaux, S. Ghinescu, G. Khoriauli, E. Imbergamo, E. Menichetti, L. Di Lella, F. Newson, Tommaso Spadaro, Karol Kampf, G. D'Agostini, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, E. Gamberini, Matteo Lupi, C. Cerri, Fabrizio Petrucci, G. Saracino, Y. Petrov, M. Boretto, Leander Litov, F. Ambrosino, M. Pepe, S. Trilov, V. Fascianelli, Yu.A. Kudenko, V. Sugonyaev, Z. Kucerova, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Korotkova, M. Koval, M. Sozzi, Antonino Sergi, Jacopo Pinzino, Yu. Potrebenikov, Georgi P. Georgiev, O. Hutanu, B. Wrona, B. Jenninger, V. Palladino, A. Fucci, G. Anzivino, Viacheslav Duk, Jürgen Engelfried, R. Aliberti, P. Petrov, Mauro Raggi, A. Norton, Ilaria Neri, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, H. O. Danielsson, D. Coward, Sergei Fedotov, Roberto Ammendola, Vladimir Ryjov, V. Obraztsov, A. Khotyantsev, A. Mefodev, D. E. Hutchcroft, A. Mapelli, P. Rubin, O. Yushchenko, Luca Pontisso, I. Mannelli, F. Marchetto, L. Federici, Piero Vicini, S. Giudici, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, V. E. Semenov, V. Kurshetsov, Claudio Santoni, N. Estrada-Tristan, S. Kholodenko, Francesco Gonnella, G. Lehmann Miotto, J. Fu, C. Graham, P. Lichard, A. Filippi, Tomas Blazek, A. I. Zinchenko, B. Checcucci, E. Iacopini, A. Cotta Ramusino, P. Cooper, L. Gatignon, M. Corvino, L. Bician, T. Capussela, V. Falaleev, V. Kozhuharov, J. Swallow, M. Zamkovsky, A. Gianoli, Roberto Guida, D. Protopopescu, Paolo Massarotti, R. W. L. Jones, Babette Döbrich, Nicolas Lurkin, E. Lari, M. B. Brunetti, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, C. J. Parkinson, A. Conovaloff, Emilio Leonardi, A P Ostankov, I. Polenkevich, N. Doble, Matthew Noy, Helen F Heath, M. Medvedeva, Giuseppe Ruggiero, D. Lomidze, F. Costantini, T. Bache, M. Piccini, G. Lamanna, A. Kleimenova, Johannes Bernhard, A. Parenti, F. Spinella, R. Lollini, Ernesto Migliore, G. Latino, J. R. Fry, Alessandro Lonardo, E. Cortina Gil, Roberto Piandani, B. Velghe, J. Carmignani, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), NA62, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Ambrosino, F., Capussela, T., Corvino, M., Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Mirra, M., Napolitano, M., Saracino, G., and UCL - SST/IRMP - Institut de recherche en mathématique et physique

Subjects
Exotics, Photon, S009:Desig=15, Beyond Standard Model, Exotics, Fixed target experiments, Rare decay, NA62 experiment, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Dark photon, NA62, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Economica, photon: mass, photon: coupling, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], pi0: branching ratio: upper limit, +pi%2B+pi0%22">K+ --> pi+ pi0, Physics, S029HPH, photon: invisible decay, Coupling (probability), K+: hadronic decay, mass dependence, Fixed target experiment, Fixed target experiments, Production (computer science), S009.15, K+: secondary beam, beyond standard model, Particle Physics - Experiment, Exotic, rare decay, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Meson, pi0: radiative decay, coupling constant: upper limit, Partícules (Física nuclear), PE2_2, 0103 physical sciences, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, +photon+neutrino+antineutrino%22">pi0 --> photon neutrino antineutrino, 010306 general physics, fixed target experiments, photon: hidden sector, pi0: electromagnetic decay, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, exotics, CERN SPS, Rare decay, Orders of magnitude (time), Beyond Standard Model, lcsh:QC770-798, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Camps, Teoria quàntica de, experimental results
Abstract

The results of a search for π decays to a photon and an invisible massive dark photon at the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS are reported. From a total of 4.12 × 10 tagged π mesons, no signal is observed. Assuming a kinetic-mixing interaction, limits are set on the dark photon coupling to the ordinary photon as a function of the dark photon mass, improving on previous searches in the mass range 60–110 MeV/c. The present results are interpreted in terms of an upper limit of the branching ratio of the electro-weak decay π→ γνν¯ , improving the current limit by more than three orders of magnitude.

Published
2019

36. Searches for lepton number violating $K^+$ decays

Author

Tomáš Husek, D. T. Madigozhin, A. Sturgess, J. B. Dainton, Matteo Lupi, P. F. Dalpiaz, R. Marchevski, E. Gamberini, Jürgen Engelfried, T. Bache, G. Latino, Claudio Santoni, A. Filippi, A. I. Zinchenko, M. Medvedeva, J. R. Fry, E. Maurice, T. Capussela, A. Gianoli, Alessandro Lonardo, E. Cortina Gil, Roberto Piandani, Giuseppe Ruggiero, H. O. Danielsson, Roberto Guida, V. Kurochka, Luca Pontisso, M. Piccini, Yu. Potrebenikov, G. Lehmann Miotto, A. Kleimenova, Vladimir Ryjov, L. Federici, C. Graham, F. Bucci, D. Coward, B. Velghe, J. Carmignani, M. Boretto, L. Di Lella, Tommaso Spadaro, M. Vormstein, S. Schuchmann, V. Falaleev, M. Misheva, F. Costantini, N. Doble, Babette Döbrich, G. Mannocchi, G. D'Agostini, M. Pepe, A. Mapelli, B. Wrona, S. Giudici, P. Cenci, Fabrizio Petrucci, G. Saracino, O. Hutanu, C. J. Parkinson, David Hutchcroft, Emilio Leonardi, P. Rubin, Leander Litov, V. Kozhuharov, I. Polenkevich, M. Zamkovsky, A. Salamon, G. Khoriauli, Antonino Sergi, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, G. Anzivino, A. Mefodev, I. Mannelli, A P Ostankov, M. Koval, E. Iacopini, F. Brizioli, Roberta Arcidiacono, E. Gushchin, P. Lubrano, T. Numao, Paolo Valente, Matthew Noy, R. W. L. Jones, M. Perrin-Terrin, M. Sozzi, Helen F Heath, Ilaria Neri, Y. Petrov, F. Hahn, Johannes Bernhard, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, Sergei Fedotov, M. Lenti, F. Newson, N. A. Molokanova, R. Fantechi, N. De Simone, E. Pedreschi, G. Lamanna, S. Shkarovskiy, V. Palladino, A. Parenti, F. Spinella, A. Korotkova, A. Fucci, R. Lollini, Evgueni Goudzovski, M. Napolitano, E. Minucci, Georgi P. Georgiev, Viacheslav Duk, M. Mirra, F. Marchetto, Piero Vicini, Ernesto Migliore, C. Cerri, P. Lichard, A. M. Bragadireanu, S. Trilov, Roberto Ammendola, Cristina Biino, Mauro Raggi, B. Jenninger, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, M. Moulson, V. Fascianelli, Karol Kampf, V. Sugonyaev, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, L. Gatignon, S. Padolski, M. Corvino, D. Protopopescu, L. Bician, J. Swallow, Nicolas Lurkin, M. B. Brunetti, R. Aliberti, A. Norton, Andrea Biagioni, R. Volpe, A. Conovaloff, J. Kunze, M. Fiorini, D. Lomidze, O. Yushchenko, V. Kurshetsov, S. Kholodenko, B. Checcucci, P. Cooper, Paolo Massarotti, Rainer Wanke, E. Lari, A. Shaikhiev, Francesco Gonnella, Vladimir Kekelidze, Tomas Blazek, Mattia Barbanera, A. Cotta Ramusino, Jacopo Pinzino, S. Martellotti, V. Obraztsov, B. Angelucci, L. Iacobuzio, E. B. Holzer, Dave Britton, N. Estrada-Tristan, V. E. Semenov, A. Ceccucci, R. Page, Andrea Bizzeti, J. Jerhot, P. Petrov, H. D. Wahl, V. Cerny, E. Menichetti, A. Khotyantsev, D. Soldi, K. Massri, L. Fulton, F. Duval, Yu. G. Kudenko, A. Antonelli, L. Peruzzo, J. L. Fu, B. Bloch-Devaux, E. Imbergamo, S. Venditti, Z. Kucerova, Paul Laycock, S. Ghinescu, G. Lanfranchi, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), NA62, European Commission, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ambrosino, F., Capussela, T., Corvino, M., Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Mirra, M., Napolitano, M., Saracino, G., and UCL - SST/IRMP - Institut de recherche en mathématique et physique

Subjects
branching ratio: upper limit, K+: rare decay, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, NA62, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, High Energy Physics - Experiment, electron: pair production, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Economica, K+: branching ratio, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], K meson decay, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Electroweak interaction, lcsh:QC1-999, muon: pair production, lepton number violation, K+: semileptonic decay, K+: secondary beam, Particle Physics - Experiment, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, CERN Lab, S010.46, FOS: Physical sciences, kaons, S010:Desig=46, +pi-+2muon%2B%22">K+ --> pi- 2muon+, Partícules (Física nuclear), PE2_2, Violació CP (Física nuclear), 0103 physical sciences, Kaon decays, lepton number violation, K meson, K meson decay, 010306 general physics, lepton number: violation, Kaon decays, Lepton Number Violation, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, S010:Desig=19, CERN SPS, K meson, Lepton number, +pi-+electron+positron%22">K+ --> pi- electron positron, Kaon Physics, Lepton Flavour Violation, S010.19, lcsh:Physics, experimental results
Abstract

The NA62 experiment at CERN reports a search for the lepton number violating decays K+ -> pi(-)e(+)e(+) and K+ -> pi(-)mu(+)mu(+) using a data sample collected in 2017. No signals are observed, and upper limits on the branching fractions of these decays of 2.2 x 10(-10) and 4.2 x 10(-11) are obtained, respectively, at 90% confidence level. These upper limits improve on previously reported measurements by factors of 3 and 2, respectively., It is a pleasure to express our appreciation to the staff of the CERN laboratory and the technical staffs of the participating laboratories and universities for their efforts in the operation of the experiment and data processing. The cost of the experiment and its auxiliary systems was supported by the funding agencies of the Collaboration Institutes. We are particularly indebted to: F.R.S.-FNRS (Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS), Belgium; BMES (Ministry of Education, Youth and Science), Bulgaria; NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council), Canada; NRC (National Research Council Canada) contribution to TRIUMF, Canada; MEYS (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports), Czech Republic; BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) contracts 05H12UM5, 05H15UMCNA and 05H18UMCNA, Germany; INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Italy; MIUR (Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca), Italy; CONACyT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología), Mexico; IFA (Institute of Atomic Physics), Romania; INR-RAS (Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow, Russia; JINR (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research), Dubna, Russia; NRC (National Research Center) “Kurchatov Institute” and MESRF (Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation), Russia; MESRS (Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic), Slovakia; CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Switzerland; STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council), United Kingdom; NSF (National Science Foundation) Award Number 1506088, U.S.A.; ERC (European Research Council) “UniversaLepto” advanced grant 268062, “KaonLepton” starting grant 336581, Europe. Individuals have received support from: Charles University Research Center (UNCE/SCI/013), Czech Republic; Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR “Futuro in ricerca 2012” grant RBFR12JF2Z, Project GAP), Italy; Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR grants 18-32-00072, 18-32-00245), Russia; the Royal Society (grants UF100308, UF0758946), United Kingdom; STFC (Rutherford fellowships ST/J00412X/1, ST/M005798/1), United Kingdom; ERC (grants 268062, 336581 and starting grant 802836 “AxScale”).

Published
2019

37. Search for $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$ at NA62

Author

F. Newson, Paul Laycock, S. Shkarovskiy, J. B. Dainton, L. Iacobuzio, Emilio Leonardi, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Kudenko, M. Medvedeva, F. Costantini, A. Mefodev, I. Mannelli, G. Lanfranchi, M. Perrin-Terrin, Tommaso Spadaro, Tomáš Husek, A. Salamon, D. T. Madigozhin, F. Brizioli, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, K. Massri, M. Lenti, Matteo Lupi, E. Cortina Gil, Roberto Piandani, G. Khoriauli, Paolo Valente, L. Bician, Luca Federici, J. Swallow, G. Saracino, Georgi P. Georgiev, J. R. Fry, Viacheslav Duk, C. Cerri, Dave Britton, N. Estrada-Tristan, Claudio Santoni, A. Filippi, S. Trilov, Roberto Ammendola, E. Imbergamo, A. Ceccucci, B. Checcucci, T. Capussela, Andrea Bizzeti, A. Gianoli, Christopher John Parkinson, M. Sozzi, Angelo Biagioni, J. L. Fu, N. Doble, D. Protopopescu, J. Pinzino, F. Spinella, Ilaria Neri, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, Vladimir Kekelidze, G. Anzivino, R. Lollini, Emilie Maurice, A. Conovaloff, Nicolas Lurkin, M. B. Brunetti, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, Sergei Fedotov, E. Gamberini, R. Aliberti, H. D. Wahl, A. Norton, H. O. Danielsson, A. Sturgess, Ernesto Migliore, Vladimir Ryjov, D. Coward, V. Sougonyaev, A. Mapelli, Luca Pontisso, S. Giudici, P. Lubrano, P. S. Cooper, B. Angelucci, R. D. page, Alessandro Lonardo, G. Lamanna, M. Koval, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, Yu. Potrebenikov, Giuseppe Latino, Francesco Gonnella, V. Kurochka, R. Guida, P. F. Dalpiaz, Tomas Blazek, M. Fiorini, L. Di Lella, V. Kozhuharov, J. Kunze, M. Zamkovsky, Cristina Biino, A. Cotta Ramusino, S. Ghinescu, Jürgen Engelfried, M. Bragadireanu, T. Numao, D. E. Hutchcroft, S. Padolski, A. Korotkova, N. A. Molokanova, O. Yushchenko, M. Napolitano, N. De Simone, V. Kurshetsov, Mauro Piccini, Fabrizio Petrucci, V. Falaleev, S. Martellotti, Leander Litov, A. Kleimenova, S. Kholodenko, B. Wrona, Paolo Massarotti, P. Petrov, M. Pepe, Mattia Barbanera, A. Fucci, M. Noy, A. Khotyantsev, M. Moulson, Karol Kampf, V. Cerny, Rainer Wanke, E. Menichetti, P. Rubin, L. Gatignon, M. Corvino, V. Obraztsov, V. E. Semenov, Evgueni Goudzovski, B. Velghe, B. Jenninger, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, G. Mannocchi, F. Hahn, R. Marchevski, Antonino Sergi, E. Minucci, D. Soldi, A.I. Zinchenko, V. Fascianelli, G. D'Agostini, G. Lehmann Miotto, C. Graham, Babette Döbrich, O. Hutanu, V. Palladino, F. Marchetto, Piero Vicini, P. Lichard, E. Iacopini, L. Fulton, F. Duval, David Lomidze, E. Pedreschi, M. Mirra, G. Ruggiero, M. Boretto, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, M. Vormstein, P. Cenci, A P Ostankov, R. Volpe, Roberta Arcidiacono, F. Bucci, E. Gushchin, Milena Misheva, R. Fantechi, A. Antonelli, L. Peruzzo, B. Bloch-Devaux, Mauro Raggi, Helen F Heath, and Z. Kucerova

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Branching fraction, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Pi, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Sensitivity (control systems), Atomic physics, NA62 experiment, Measure (mathematics), Particle Physics - Experiment, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Bar (unit)
Abstract

The decay $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu\overline{\nu}$ has a very precisely predicted branching ratio ($\sim 8\times 10^{-11}$) and it is one of the best candidates to reveal indirect effects of new physics. The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is designed to measure the branching ratio of the $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu\overline{\nu}$ with a decay-in-flight technique, novel for this channel. NA62 has taken data firstly in 2016 with the aim to reach the SM sensitivity. It has then collected 10 times more statistics in 2017 and a similar amount of data is expected from the 2018 run. The preliminary result on the full 2016 data set and the prospects for future developments are presented here.

Published
2018

38. Improved search for heavy neutrinos in the decay π→eν

Author

L. S. Littenberg, Song Chen, Douglas Bryman, P. Gumplinger, S. H. Kettell, R. E. Mischke, D. Protopopescu, Ahmed Hussein, Y. Igarashi, J. R. Comfort, C. Malbrunot, Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Vom Bruch, S. Ito, D. Vavilov, Leonid Kurchaninov, M. Blecher, Masaharu Aoki, A. Sher, Luca Doria, T. Sullivan, T. Numao, Dave Britton, and S. Cuen-Rochin

Subjects
Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Spectrum (functional analysis), Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Positron energy, Nuclear physics, Pion, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Invariant mass, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Order of magnitude
Abstract

A search for massive neutrinos has been made in the decay π+→e+ν. No evidence was found for extra peaks in the positron energy spectrum indicative of pion decays involving massive neutrinos (π→e+νh). Upper limits (90% C.L.) on the neutrino mixing matrix element |Uei|2 in the neutrino mass region 60–135 MeV/c2 were set and are an order of magnitude improvement over previous results.

Published
2018

39. Search for heavy neutral lepton production in K+ decays

Author

K. Massri, L. Di Lella, M. Misheva, M. Perrin-Terrin, V. Sugonyaev, H. O. Danielsson, L. Peruzzo, S. Giudici, B. Bloch-Devaux, L. Bician, Luca Federici, J. Swallow, B. Wrona, E. Imbergamo, G. D'Agostini, M. Pepe, Luca Pontisso, R. Aliberti, J. R. Fry, V. Palladino, Francesco Gonnella, G. Saracino, O. Hutanu, F. Bucci, A. Norton, Tomas Blazek, A. Fucci, A. Cotta Ramusino, M. Boretto, A. Conovaloff, Z. Kucerova, D. Soldi, G. Mannocchi, P. Cenci, Piero Vicini, Vladimir Ryjov, I. Mannelli, A. Mefodev, Alessandro Lonardo, P. Lichard, S. Movchan, L. Gatignon, A. Mapelli, J. Kunze, F. Ambrosino, T. Numao, Paolo Valente, L. Fulton, F. Duval, F. Hahn, Paul Laycock, V. Kekelidze, E. Cortina Gil, A. Salamon, G. Khoriauli, A. Korotkova, M. Koval, M. Corvino, Jürgen Engelfried, Roberto Piandani, D. Coward, Dave Britton, N. Estrada-Tristan, G. Anzivino, Leander Litov, F. Brizioli, A. Kleimenova, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, M. Sozzi, D. Lomidze, Yu. G. Kudenko, Evgueni Goudzovski, S. Padolski, A P Ostankov, Matthew Noy, R. Fantechi, Ilaria Neri, P. Petrov, O. Yushchenko, Cristina Biino, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, Andrea Bizzeti, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, Sergei Fedotov, Cristina Lazzeroni, D. Protopopescu, Nicolas Lurkin, M. B. Brunetti, A. Khotyantsev, B. Velghe, Mattia Barbanera, V. Kurochka, B. Jenninger, A. Antonelli, V. Kurshetsov, G. Lanfranchi, A. Zinchenko, S. Kholodenko, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. F. Dalpiaz, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, B. Checcucci, V. Cerny, G. Latino, P. Cooper, Andrea Biagioni, R. Volpe, G. Lamanna, E. Gamberini, D. Madigozhin, Georgi P. Georgiev, Viacheslav Duk, E. Menichetti, V. Kozhuharov, M. Fiorini, S. Martellotti, M. Zamkovsky, A. Filippi, Roberto Ammendola, P. Lubrano, B. Angelucci, F. Spinella, R. Lollini, T. Spadaro, Ernesto Migliore, H. D. Wahl, M. Piccini, N. Doble, David Hutchcroft, S. Trilov, R. Page, E. Maurice, Helen F Heath, V. Obraztsov, A. Sturgess, N. De Simone, C. Cerri, V. E. Semenov, A. M. Bragadireanu, P. Rubin, Paolo Massarotti, M. Moulson, F. Marchetto, Karol Kampf, N. A. Molokanova, M. Napolitano, J. Pinzino, E. Iacopini, Mauro Raggi, J. L. Fu, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, S. Ghinescu, Claudio Santoni, T. Capussela, A. Gianoli, Roberto Guida, F. Petrucci, Tomáš Husek, Yu. Potrebenikov, Matteo Lupi, R. Marchevski, Antonino Sergi, G. Lehmann Miotto, C. Graham, V. Falaleev, M. Lenti, Babette Döbrich, F. Newson, C. J. Parkinson, S. Shkarovskiy, E. Minucci, J. B. Dainton, V. Fascianelli, L. Iacobuzio, Emilio Leonardi, I. Polenkevich, M. Medvedeva, Roberta Arcidiacono, E. Gushchin, Giuseppe Ruggiero, A. Ceccucci, E. Pedreschi, M. Mirra, F. Costantini, Cortina Gil, E., Minucci, E., Padolski, S., Petrov, P., Velghe, B., Georgiev, G., Kozhuharov, V., Litov, L., Numao, T., Bryman, D., Fu, J., Husek, T., Kampf, K., Zamkovsky, M., Aliberti, R., Khoriauli, G., Kunze, J., Lomidze, D., Marchevski, R., Peruzzo, L., Vormstein, M., Wanke, R., Dalpiaz, P., Fiorini, M., Gamberini, E., Neri, I., Norton, A., Petrucci, F., Wahl, H., Cotta Ramusino, A., Gianoli, A., Iacopini, E., Latino, G., Lenti, M., Bizzeti, A., Bucci, F., Volpe, R., Antonelli, A., Gonnella, F., Lamanna, G., Lanfranchi, G., Mannocchi, G., Martellotti, S., Moulson, M., Raggi, M., Spadaro, T., Ambrosino, F., Capussela, T., Corvino, Michele, Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Mirra, M., Napolitano, M., Saracino, G., Anzivino, G., Brizioli, F., Imbergamo, E., Lollini, R., Santoni, C., Barbanera, M., Cenci, P., Checcucci, B., Duk, V., Lubrano, P., Lupi, M., Pepe, M., Piccini, M., Costantini, F., Di Lella, L., Doble, N., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Pedreschi, E., Sozzi, M., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Piandani, R., Pinzino, J., Pontisso, L., Spinella, F., Mannelli, I., D'Agostini, G., Biagioni, A., Leonardi, E., Lonardo, A., Valente, P., Vicini, P., Ammendola, R., Bonaiuto, V., De Simone, N., Federici, L., Fucci, A., Salamon, A., Sargeni, F., Arcidiacono, R., Bloch-Devaux, B., Boretto, M., Iacobuzio, L., Menichetti, E., Migliore, E., Soldi, D., Biino, C., Filippi, A., Marchetto, F., Engelfried, J., Estrada-Tristan, N., Bragadireanu, A. M., Ghinescu, S. A., Hutanu, O. E., Enik, T., Falaleev, V., Kekelidze, V., Korotkova, A., Madigozhin, D., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Movchan, S., Polenkevich, I., Potrebenikov, Yu., Shkarovskiy, S., Zinchenko, A., Fedotov, S., Gushchin, E., Khotyantsev, A., Kleimenova, A., Kudenko, Y., Kurochka, V., Medvedeva, M., Mefodev, A., Shaikhiev, A., Kholodenko, S., Kurshetsov, V., Obraztsov, V., Ostankov, A., Semenov, V., Sugonyaev, V., Yushchenko, O., Bician, L., Blazek, T., Cerny, V., Koval, M., Kucerova, Z., Ceccucci, A., Danielsson, H., Duval, F., Döbrich, B., Gatignon, L., Guida, R., Hahn, F., Jenninger, B., Laycock, P., Lehmann Miotto, G., Lichard, P., Mapelli, A., Noy, M., Palladino, V., Perrin-Terrin, M., Ruggiero, G., Ryjov, V., Venditti, S., Brunetti, M. B., Fascianelli, V., Goudzovski, E., Lazzeroni, C., Lurkin, N., Newson, F., Parkinson, C., Romano, A., Sergi, A., Sturgess, A., Swallow, J., Heath, H., Page, R., Trilov, S., Angelucci, B., Britton, D., Graham, C., Protopopescu, D., Dainton, J. B., Fry, J. R., Fulton, L., Hutchcroft, D., Massri, K., Maurice, E., Wrona, B., Conovaloff, A., Cooper, P., Coward, D., and Rubin, P.

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, lepton, Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix, heavy neutral leptons, neutrino mixing, FOS: Physical sciences, k meson, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, neutrino mixing, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, decay, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, neutrino, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Minimum bias, Economica, Bounds, neutrinos, masses, tests, TheoryofComputation_ANALYSISOFALGORITHMSANDPROBLEMCOMPLEXITY, 0103 physical sciences, heavy neutral leptons, lepton, k meson, decay, neutrino, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, Range (particle radiation), Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, hep-ex, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Ambientale, lcsh:QC1-999, High Energy Physics::Experiment, lcsh:Physics, Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton
Abstract

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 the elements of the extended neutrino mixing matrix $|U_{\ell 4}|^2$ ($\ell=e,\mu$) for heavy neutral lepton mass in the range $170-448~{\rm MeV}/c^2$. This improves on the results from previous production searches in $K^+$ decays, setting more stringent limits and extending the mass range., Comment: Version accepted for publication in Phys.Lett.B (12/01/2018)

Published
2018

40. Kl3 form factors with NA48/2 and NA62 status

Author

L. Iacobuzio, M. Sozzi, Emilio Leonardi, I. Polenkevich, L. Di Lella, Yu. Kudenko, Ilaria Neri, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, R. Page, E. Iacopini, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, Sergei Fedotov, E. Minucci, G. Saracino, A.I. Zinchenko, K. Massri, V. Fascianelli, S. Padolski, O. Yushchenko, B. Wrona, D. Soldi, V. Kozhuharov, A. Mefodev, J. Kunze, Alessandro Lonardo, M. Zamkovsky, F. Spinella, S. Martellotti, R. Lollini, P. F. Dalpiaz, I. Mannelli, V. Obraztsov, M. Medvedeva, Ernesto Migliore, G. Anzivino, A. Conovalo, N. A. Molokanova, L. Bician, Luca Federici, J. Swallow, Claudio Santoni, A. Filippi, R. Fantechi, J. R. Fry, V. E. Semenov, T. Capussela, L. Fulton, F. Duval, David Lomidze, Mauro Piccini, V. Kurshetsov, S. Kholodenko, D. Coward, Jürgen Engelfried, V. Kurochka, R. Guida, Paul Laycock, Cristina Biino, Paolo Massarotti, M. Noy, A. Gianoli, F. Costantini, P. Petrov, Helen F Heath, M. Lenti, G. D'Agostini, H. O. Danielsson, M. Napolitano, Vladimir Ryjov, Mattia Barbanera, Evgueni Goudzovski, A. Salamon, M. Pepe, A. Mapelli, F. Bucci, Milena Misheva, Angelo Biagioni, Roberta Arcidiacono, Luca Pontisso, M. Perrin-Terrin, Tommaso Spadaro, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, Mauro Raggi, S. Giudici, F. Brizioli, O. Hutanu, G. Ruggiero, B. Angelucci, M. Koval, S. Venditti, G. Lanfranchi, J. Pinzino, E. Gushchin, E. Cortina Gil, Vladimir Kekelidze, N. De Simone, A. Shaikhiev, Francesco Gonnella, Yu. Potrebenikov, G. Lamanna, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, Roberto Piandani, P. S. Cooper, V. Cerny, Tomas Blazek, Giuseppe Latino, F. Newson, A. Fucci, A P Ostankov, A. Cotta Ramusino, M. Fiorini, A. Antonelli, R. Volpe, M. Boretto, G. Khoriauli, Georgi P. Georgiev, T. Numao, Viacheslav Duk, Tomáš Husek, S. Shkarovskiy, E. Menichetti, B. Velghe, L. Peruzzo, Rainer Wanke, P. Rubin, B. Bloch-Devaux, Roberto Ammendola, A. Sturgess, G. Mannocchi, D. T. Madigozhin, M. Moulson, M. Vormstein, P. Cenci, F. Marchetto, Piero Vicini, S. Ghinescu, H. D. Wahl, J. B. Dainton, David Hutchcroft, P. Lubrano, P. Lichard, F. Hahn, E. Pedreschi, Christopher John Parkinson, Matteo Lupi, B. Jenninger, A. Khotyantsev, Karol Kampf, Z. Kucerova, M. Mirra, R. Aliberti, A. Norton, J. L. Fu, Fabrizio Petrucci, Mario Giorgi, Paolo Valente, D. Di Filippo, E. Imbergamo, L. Gatignon, Leander Litov, M. Corvino, Dave Britton, N. Estrada-Tristan, A. Kleimenova, A. Ceccucci, B. Checcucci, Andrea Bizzeti, R. Piandani, M. Bragadireanu, D. Protopopescu, A. Korotkova, Emilie Maurice, Nicolas Lurkin, M. B. Brunetti, V. Sougonyaev, V. Falaleev, E. Gamberini, R. Marchevski, Antonino Sergi, G. Lehmann Miotto, C. Graham, Babette Döbrich, V. Palladino, C. Cerri, S. Trilov, N. Doble, Piandani, Roberto, Aliberti, R., Ambrosino, F., Ammendola, R., Angelucci, B., Antonelli, A., Anzivino, G., Arcidiacono, R., Barbanera, M., Biagioni, A., Bician, L., Biino, C., Bizzeti, A., Blazek, T., Bloch-Devaux, B., Bonaiuto, V., Boretto, M., Bragadireanu, M., Britton, D., Brizioli, F., Brunetti, M. B., Bryman, D., Bucci, F., Capussela, T., Ceccucci, A., Cenci, P., Cerny, V., Cerri, C., Checcucci, B., Conovalo, A., Cooper, P., Gil, E. Cortina, Corvino, M., Costantini, F., Ramusino, A. Cotta, Coward, D., D'Agostini, G., Dainton, J., Dalpiaz, P., Danielsson, H., De Simone, N., Di Filippo, D., Di Lella, L., Doble, N., Dobrich, B., Duval, F., Duk, V., Engelfried, J., Enik, T., Estrada-Tristan, N., Falaleev, V., Fantechi, R., Fascianelli, V., Federici, L., Fedotov, S., Filippi, A., Fiorini, M., Fry, J., Fu, J., Fucci, A., Fulton, L., Gamberini, E., Gatignon, L., Georgiev, G., Ghinescu, S., Gianoli, A., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Gonnella, F., Goudzovski, E., Graham, C., Guida, R., Gushchin, E., Hahn, F., Heath, H., Husek, T., Hutanu, O., Hutchcroft, D., Iacobuzio, L., Iacopini, E., Imbergamo, E., Jenninger, B., Kampf, K., Kekelidze, V., Kholodenko, S., Khoriauli, G., Khotyantsev, A., Kleimenova, A., Korotkova, A., Koval, M., Kozhuharov, V., Kucerova, Z., Kudenko, Y., Kunze, J., Kurochka, V., Kurshetsov, V., Lanfranchi, G., Lamanna, G., Latino, G., Laycock, P., Lazzeroni, C., Lenti, M., Miotto, G. Lehmann, Leonardi, E., Lichard, P., Litov, L., Lollini, R., Lomidze, D., Lonardo, A., Lubrano, P., Lupi, M., Lurkin, N., Madigozhin, D., Mannelli, I., Mannocchi, G., Mapelli, A., Marchetto, F., Marchevski, R., Martellotti, S., Massarotti, P., Massri, K., Maurice, E., Medvedeva, M., Mefodev, A., Menichetti, E., Migliore, E., Minucci, E., Mirra, M., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Moulson, M., Movchan, S., Napolitano, M., Neri, I., Newson, F., Norton, A., Noy, M., Numao, T., Obraztsov, V., Ostankov, A., Padolski, S., Page, R., Palladino, V., Parkinson, C., Pedreschi, E., Pepe, M., Perrin-Terrin, M., Peruzzo, L., Petrov, P., Petrucci, F., Piandani, R., Piccini, M., Pinzino, J., Polenkevich, I., Pontisso, L., Potrebenikov, Yu., Protopopescu, D., Raggi, M., Romano, A., Rubin, P., Ruggiero, G., Ryjov, V., Salamon, A., Santoni, C., Saracino, G., Sargeni, F., Semenov, V., Sergi, A., Shaikhiev, A., Shkarovskiy, S., Soldi, D., Sougonyaev, V., Sozzi, M., Spadaro, T., Spinella, F., Sturgess, A., Swallow, J., Trilov, S., Valente, P., Velghe, B., Venditti, S., Vicini, P., Volpe, R., Vormstein, M., Wahl, H., Wanke, R., Wrona, B., Yushchenko, O., Zamkovsky, M., and Zinchenko, A.

Subjects
Physics and Astronomy (all), General Physics and Astronomy, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare
Abstract

The NA48/2 experiment at CERN collected a very large sample of charged kaon decays into multiple final states. These data allow measurements related to QCD. We obtained our final measurement of the charged kaon semileptonic decays form factors based on 4.28 million Ke3 and 2.91 million Kμ3 selected decays, with the smallest uncertainty for Ke3 and a competitive result for Kμ3 and leading to the most precise combined Kl3 result coming from the kaon sector that reduces the form factor uncertainty of/Vus/. The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is designed to measure the branching ratio of the K+ → π+νν decay with 10% precision. K → πνν is one of the theoretically cleanest meson decay where to look for indirect effects of new physics complementary to LHC searches. NA62 took data in 2015-2017; the analysis of a partial data set allows to reach the Standard Model sensitivity. The status of the experiments will be presented.

Published
2018

41. Detector for measuring the π+→e+νe branching fraction

Author

Koji Yamada, S. Ito, A. Sher, P. Gumplinger, Minoru Yoshida, R. E. Mischke, T. Numao, D. Vom Bruch, T. Sullivan, Leonid Kurchaninov, S. Cuen-Rochin, K. Tauchi, G. Sheffer, S. H. Kettell, M. Blecher, L. S. Littenberg, A. Muroi, J. R. Comfort, Y. Igarashi, D. Vavilov, Luca Doria, Masaharu Aoki, Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. Malbrunot, Douglas Bryman, Ahmed Hussein, and N. Ito

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Spectrometer, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Momentum, Crystal, Pion, Positron, 0103 physical sciences, Atomic physics, Decay product, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation
Abstract

The PIENU experiment at TRIUMF is aimed at a measurement of the branching ratio R e / μ = Γ ( ( π + → e + ν e ) + ( π + → e + ν e γ ) ) / Γ ( ( π + → μ + ν μ ) + ( π + → μ + ν μ γ ) ) with precision 0.1 % . Incident pions, delivered at the rate of 60 kHz with momentum 75 MeV/c, were degraded and stopped in a plastic scintillator target. Pions and their decay product positrons were detected with plastic scintillators and tracked with multiwire proportional chambers and silicon strip detectors. The energies of the positrons were measured in a spectrometer consisting of a large NaI(Tl) crystal surrounded by an array of pure CsI crystals. This paper provides a description of the PIENU experimental apparatus and its performance in pursuit of R e / μ .

Published
2015

42. Precision Measurement of the $\pi$$^+$$\rightarrow$$e^+$$\nu$$_e$ Branching Ratio in the PIENU Experiment

Author

A. Husseina, D. Protopopescu, D. Vavilov, Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, Dave Britton, J. R. Comfort, L. Doria, Song Chen, Y. Igarashi, D. Vom Bruch, T. Sullivan, Shintaro Ito, A. Sher, T. Numao, Leonid Kurchaninov, Chloé Malbrunot, Masaharu Aoki, S. H. Kettell, L. S. Littenberg, Douglas Bryman, S. Cuen-Rochin, M. Blecher, P. Gumplinger, and R. E. Mischke

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Pion, Branching fraction, Pi, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract

The PIENU experiment at TRIUMF aims to measure the branching ratio of the pion decay modes $R^{\pi}=[{\pi}^+{\rightarrow}e^+{\nu}_e({\gamma})]/[{\pi}^+{\rightarrow}{\mu}^+{\nu}_{\mu}({\gamma})]$ with precision of $

Published
2017

43. $K\to\pi\nu\nu$ at NA62

Author

G. Anzivino, J. Morant, N. Estrada, N Desimone, G. Paoluzzi, C. Capoccia, Kekelidze, P. Wertelaers, Semenov, P. Sutcliffe, E. Iacopini, M. Lenti, F. Marchetto, Piero Vicini, T Jones KKampf, Christopher John Parkinson, M. Veltri, G. Corradi, Cerny, D. Pietreanu, Pierre Jarron, A An tonelli, P. Lichard, M. Fiorini, Marian Krivda, F. Bucci, T. Numao, D. Tagnani, Milena Misheva, R. Fantechi, Evgueni Goudzovski, Yu. Kiryushin, H. D. Wahl, G. Maire, R. Aliberti, A. Norton, Roland Winston, P. Petrov, Petra Riedler, N. Doble, D. Soldi, E. Cortina Gil, B. Velghe, Roberto Piandani, S. Chiozzi, F. Cotorobai, Mauro Raggi, I. O. Skillicorn, L. Fulton, A. Mapelli, David Lomidze, L. Di Lella, L. Bician, Luca Federici, G. D'Agostini, F. Perez Gomez, Likhacheva, E. Capitolo, Mauro Piccini, J. Degrange, Elsha, J. Kaplon, M. Pepe, Paolo Massarotti, R. Page, S. Giudici, Mario Giorgi, Rainer Wanke, D. Di Filippo, A. Sturgess, B. Wrona, A. Fucci, P. Rubin, L. Peruzzo, R. Guida, G. Salina, Andrea Catinaccio, G. Mannocchi, O. Hutanu, A. Goncalves Martins, Georgi P. Georgiev, A. Winhart, Bonaiuto, Z. Kucerova, A. Conovaloff, S. Balev, A. Khudyakov, M. Boretto, Paolo Valente, F. Hahn, A Khotyant sev, Dave Britton, F. Newson, A. Ceccucci, B. Checcucci, Andrea Bizzeti, Roberto Ammendola, S. Shkarovskiy, M. Zamkovsky, J. Kunze, Roberto Ciaranfi, J. B. Dainton, Helen F Heath, J. R. Fry, J. L. Fu, M Valdata Nappi, M. Vormstein, P. Cenci, I. Azhinenko, N. A. Molokanova, G. Ruggiero, J. Noël, M. Koval, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, R. Lenci, Samsonov, A. Salamon, Mattia Barbanera, G. Khoriauli, H. O. Danielsson, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, M. Serra, F. Herman, G. Collazuol, M. Napolitano, S. Gallorini, M. Medvedeva, J. Calvo, A P Ostankov, M. Vasile, G. Lamanna, S. Ghinescu, R. Volpe, M. Bragadireanu, P. S. Cooper, J. Pinzino, D. J. Munday, T. Vassilieva, F. Costantini, Mb Brunetti, Fabrizio Petrucci, Luca Pontisso, Francesco Gonnella, Tomas Blazek, A. Cotta Ramusino, D. E. Hutchcroft, Leander Litov, S. Padolski, L. Iacobuzio, O. Yushchenko, Konrad Kleinknecht, Emilio Leonardi, I. Polenkevich, A. Kleimenova, S. Kholodenko, A. Sotnikov, D. Coward, Palladino, G. Britvich, Yu. Kudenko, P.A. Cooke, S. Galeotti, Claudio Santoni, Sugonyaev, B. Angelucci, Alexander Kluge, B. Hallgren, A. Cecchetti, F. Spinella, R. Lollini, Ernesto Migliore, A. Filippi, Roberta Arcidiacono, E. Gushchin, Fascianelli, M. Moulson, Kozhuharov, B Bloch Devaux, M. Sozzi, E. Pedreschi, E. Jones, M. Mirra, L. Glonti, Ilaria Neri, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, Sergei Fedotov, Alessandro Lonardo, K. J. McCormick, Cristina Biino, J. Bendotti, A. Gianoli, Angelo Biagioni, F. Butin, O. Chikilev, P. F. Dalpiaz, N. Szilasi, Jürgen Engelfried, N. Dixon, Tomáš Husek, R.J. Staley, E. Imbergamo, Bolotov, Russo, T Capus sela, D. T. Madigozhin, Duk, Antonio Cassese, C. Cerri, Matteo Lupi, S. Martellotti, S. Trilov, Yu. Potrebenikov, C. Mandeiro, Giuseppe Latino, A. Blik, E. Gamberini, F. Raffaelli, M. Noy, G. Lehmann Miotto, Babette Döbrich, Obraztsov, L. Gatignon, Tommaso Spadaro, S. Di Lorenzo, R. Lietava, E. Minucci, A.I. Zinchenko, R. Marchevski, Antonino Sergi, M Perrin Terrin, G. Aglieri Rinella, A. Mefodev, I. Mannelli, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, K. Massri, Falaleev, D. Protopopescu, Emilie Maurice, Nicolas Lurkin, Ryjov, G. Nuessle, O. Jamet, M. Morel, E. Menichetti, P. Matak, and G. Saracino

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Pi
Published
2017

44. Search for heavy neutrinos in K + → μ + ν μ decays

Author

P. Rubin, Konrad Kleinknecht, E. Iacopini, P. F. Dalpiaz, A. I. Zinchenko, Fabrizio Petrucci, D. Coward, A. Salamon, G.M. Pierazzini, Leander Litov, H. D. Wahl, M. Serra, A. Gianoli, Evgueni Goudzovski, A. Fucci, S. Gallorini, Jürgen Engelfried, V. Bolotov, B. Hallgren, M. Fiorini, B. Peyaud, Petra Riedler, M. Lenti, Viacheslav Duk, E. Imbergamo, A. Peters, V K Semenov, A. Winhart, I. Mannelli, Mauro Piccini, D. Di Filippo, R. Fantechi, Simone Bifani, M. Savrie, V. Palladino, Rainer Wanke, N. A. Molokanova, Roberto Piandani, K. Eppard, Paolo Massarotti, C. Cerri, B. Bloch-Devaux, V. Kozhuharov, S. Venditti, H. O. Danielsson, L. Di Lella, M. Napolitano, M. Misheva, D. T. Madigozhin, Nicolas Lurkin, P. L. Frabetti, N. Doble, S. Balev, Vladimir Kekelidze, G. Lamanna, M. Moulson, S. Goy Lopez, Mauro Raggi, B. Renk, V. Obraztsov, Paolo Valente, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Ceccucci, Andrea Bizzeti, T. Spadaro, V. Falaleev, G. Dellacasa, Yu. Potrebenikov, F. Newson, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, F. Costantini, Emilio Leonardi, S. Shkarovskiy, M. Hita-Hochgesand, F. Retiere, Antonino Sergi, Roberta Arcidiacono, E. Gushchin, Lau Gatignon, S. Giudici, P. Cenci, M. Sozzi, Evelina Gersabeck, Cristina Biino, O. Yushchenko, V. Kurshetsov, S. Kholodenko, W. Baldini, M. Veltri, G. Saracino, A. Norton, Roland Winston, G. Anzivino, G. Ruggiero, A. Romano, G. Collazuol, F. Marchetto, T. Numao, G. D'Agostini, M. Pepe, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, A. A. Maier, Lazzeroni, C., Lurkin, N., Newson, F., Romano, A., Ceccucci, A., Danielsson, H., Falaleev, V., Gatignon, L., Goy Lopez, S., Hallgren, B., Maier, A., Peters, A., Piccini, M., Riedler, P., Frabetti, P. L., Gersabeck, E., Kekelidze, V., Madigozhin, D., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Movchan, S., Potrebenikov, Yu., Shkarovskiy, S., Zinchenko, A., Rubin, P., Baldini, W., Cotta Ramusino, A., Dalpiaz, P., Fiorini, M., Gianoli, A., Norton, A., Petrucci, F., Savrié, M., Wahl, H., Bizzeti, A., Bucci, F., Veltri, M., Iacopini, E., Lenti, M., Antonelli, A., Moulson, M., Raggi, M., Spadaro, T., Eppard, K., Hita-Hochgesand, M., Kleinknecht, K., Renk, B., Wanke, R., Winhart, A., Winston, R., Bolotov, V., Duk, V., Gushchin, E., Ambrosino, F., Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Napolitano, M., Palladino, V., Saracino, G., Anzivino, G., Imbergamo, E., Piandani, R., Sergi, A., Cenci, P., Pepe, M., Costantini, F., Doble, N., Giudici, S., Pierazzini, G., Sozzi, M., Venditti, S., Balev, S., Collazuol, G., Di Lella, L., Gallorini, S., Goudzovski, E., Lamanna, G., Mannelli, I., Ruggiero, G., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Kholodenko, S., Kurshetsov, V., Obraztsov, V., Semenov, V., Yushchenko, O., D'Agostini, G., Leonardi, E., Serra, M., Valente, P., Fucci, A., Salamon, A., Bloch-Devaux, B., Peyaud, B., Engelfried, J., Coward, D., Kozhuharov, V., Litov, L., Arcidiacono, R., Bifani, S., Biino, C., Dellacasa, G., Marchetto, F., Numao, T., and Retière, F.

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Range (particle radiation), Particle physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Heavy neutrino, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, lcsh:QC1-999, Heavy neutrinos, Kaon decays, Nuclear physics, Kaon decay, 0103 physical sciences, Mass spectrum, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, lcsh:Physics, Mixing (physics)
Abstract

The NA62 experiment recorded a large sample of K+→μ+νμ decays in 2007. A peak search has been performed in the reconstructed missing mass spectrum. In the absence of a signal, limits in the range 2×10−6 to 10−5 have been set on the squared mixing matrix element |Uμ4|2 between muon and heavy neutrino states, for heavy neutrino masses in the range 300–375 MeV/ c2 . The result extends the range of masses for which upper limits have been set on the value of |Uμ4|2 in previous production search experiments.

Published
2017

45. Study of π0 Dalitz decays in the NA62 and NA48/2 experiments

Author

A. Salamon, G. Dellacasa, M. Serra, Giuseppe Ruggiero, F. Bucci, Milena Misheva, E. Maurice, Massimiliano Fiorini, S. Gallorini, F. Costantini, R. Fantechi, Vladimir Kekelidze, Lau Gatignon, Cristina Lazzeroni, A. Antonelli, Rainer Wanke, M. Veltri, V. Obraztsov, A. Romano, V. E. Semenov, T. Numao, Emilio Leonardi, O. Yushchenko, V. Kurshetsov, Mauro Piccini, Paolo Massarotti, A. Winhart, H. Wahl, Augusto Ceccucci, Viacheslav Duk, H. O. Danielsson, Andreas Alexander Maier, S. Shkarovskiy, P. Rubin, I. Popov, D. Di Filippo, N. A. Molokanova, K. Eppard, P. F. Dalpiaz, S. Movchan, F. Ambrosino, A. I. Zinchenko, A. Peters, B. Peyaud, E. Iacopini, G. D'Agostini, Petra Riedler, Cristina Biino, V. Palladino, A. Gianoli, M. Napolitano, I. Mannelli, G. Saracino, E. Gersabeck, Paolo Valente, V. Falaleev, Jürgen Engelfried, W. Baldini, D. T. Madigozhin, Leander Litov, Andrea Bizzeti, Roberta Arcidiacono, P.L. Frabetti, A. Fucci, P. Cenci, R. Winston, D. Coward, Mauro Raggi, E. Gushchin, M. Savrie, B. Bloch-Devaux, Yu. Potrebenikov, M. Pepe, B. Hallgren, B. Renk, S. Balev, V. Kozhuharov, M. Sozzi, S. Goy Lopez, M. Moulson, G. Pierazzini, A. Norton, L. DiLella, F. Marchetto, S. Giudici, A. Cotta Ramusino, V. Bolotov, E. Imbergamo, Evgueni Goudzovski, Simone Bifani, M. Lenti, K. Kleinknecht, S. Venditti, G. Collazuol, T. Spadaro, G. Lamanna, Roberto Piandani, F. Petrucci, C. Cerri, N. Doble, Antonino Sergi, Giuseppina Anzivino, M. Hita-Hochgesand, F. Retiere, Maurice, E., Ambrosino, Fabio, Antonelli, A., Anzivino, G., Arcidiacono, R., Baldini, W., Balev, S., Bifani, S., Biino, C., Bizzeti, A., Bloch Devaux, B., Bolotov, V., Bucci, F., Ceccucci, A., Cenci, P., Cerri, C., Collazuol, G., Costantini, F., Cotta Ramusino, A., Coward, D., D'Agostini, G., Dalpiaz, P., Danielsson, H., Dellacasa, G., DI FILIPPO, Domenico, Dilella, L., Doble, N., Duk, V., Engelfried, J., Eppard, K., Falaleev, V., Fantechi, R., Fiorini, M., Frabetti, P. L., Fucci, A., Gallorini, S., Gatignon, L., Gersabeck, E., Gianoli, A., Giudici, S., Goudzovski, E., Goy Lopez, S., Gushchin, E., Hallgren, B., Hita Hochgesand, M., Iacopini, E., Imbergamo, E., Kekelidze, V., Kleinknecht, K., Kozhuharov, V., Kurshetsov, V., Lamanna, G., Lazzeroni, C., Lenti, M., Leonardi, E., Litov, L., Madigozhin, D., Maier, A., Mannelli, I., Marchetto, F., Massarotti, Paolo, Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Moulson, M., Movchan, S., Napolitano, Marco, Norton, A., Numao, T., Obraztsov, V., Palladino, Vito, Pepe, M., Peters, A., Petrucci, F., Peyaud, B., Piandani, R., Piccini, M., Pierazzini, G., Popov, I., Potrebenikov, Y. u., Raggi, M., Renk, B., Retière, F., Riedler, P., Romano, A., Rubin, P., Ruggiero, G., Salamon, A., Saracino, Giulio, Savrié, M., Semenov, V., Sergi, A., Serra, M., Shkarovskiy, S., Sozzi, M., Spadaro, T., Valente, P., Veltri, M., Venditti, S., Wahl, H., Wanke, R., Winhart, A., Winston, R., Yushchenko, O., and Zinchenko, A.

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, dark photon, NA48/2, NA62, π, 0, form factor, dark photon, π0 form factor, Nuclear Theory, Socio-culturale, Electron, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, Dark photon, Nuclear physics, Pion, PE2_2, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Form factor (quantum field theory), Large sample, π0 form factor, dark photon, π0 form factor, NA48/2, NA62, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Beam (structure)
Abstract

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 ∼1 million fully reconstructed π 0 Dalitz decay is presented. The limits on dark photon production in π 0 decays from the earlier kaon experiment at CERN, NA48/2, are also reported.

Published
2017

46. Measurement of the pi(0) electromagnetic transition form factor slope

Author

M. Savrie, B. Bloch-Devaux, V. Bolotov, Antonino Sergi, T. Numao, E. Imbergamo, P. F. Dalpiaz, N. Doble, H. D. Wahl, P. Rubin, Nicolas Lurkin, S. Shkarovskiy, I. Mannelli, G. D'Agostini, Jürgen Engelfried, M. Pepe, G.M. Pierazzini, A. Peters, E. Iacopini, G. Saracino, A. Fucci, Lau Gatignon, V. Obraztsov, B. Peyaud, Petra Riedler, Roberto Piandani, Cristina Biino, H. O. Danielsson, V. Palladino, A. Winhart, Emilio Leonardi, S. Goy Lopez, M. Veltri, K. Kleinknecht, C. Cerri, M. Misheva, R. Fantechi, G. Anzivino, S. Giudici, A. Salamon, M. Serra, Tomas Blazek, A. I. Zinchenko, K. Eppard, P. L. Frabetti, A. Cotta Ramusino, F. Marchetto, S. Gallorini, S. Venditti, M. Sozzi, A. Gianoli, G. Dellacasa, Vladimir Kekelidze, P. Cenci, M. Fiorini, Mauro Raggi, L. DiLella, A. Norton, Roland Winston, R. Wanke, G. Lamanna, Mauro Piccini, F. Retiere, F. Costantini, G. Ruggiero, Paolo Massarotti, V. Falaleev, D. T. Madigozhin, V K Semenov, M. Moulson, A. Romano, G. Collazuol, Viacheslav Duk, Roberta Arcidiacono, E. Gushchin, W. Baldini, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, Evelina Gersabeck, F. Ambrosino, O. Yushchenko, S. Balev, M. Hita-Hochgesand, M. Lenti, V. Kurshetsov, S. Kholodenko, Simone Bifani, Evgueni Goudzovski, T. Spadaro, N. A. Molokanova, M. Napolitano, D. Di Filippo, Fabrizio Petrucci, D. Coward, Leander Litov, Yu. Potrebenikov, M. Koval, B. Hallgren, V. Kozhuharov, Paolo Valente, A. Ceccucci, Andrea Bizzeti, A. A. Maier, B. Renk, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, NA62, Lazzeroni, C., Lurkin, N., Romano, A., Blazek, T., Koval, M., Ceccucci, A., Danielsson, H., Falaleev, V., Gatignon, L., Goy Lopez, S., Hallgren, B., Maier, A., Peters, A., Piccini, M., Riedler, P., Frabetti, P. L., Gersabeck, E., Kekelidze, V., Madigozhin, D., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Movchan, S., Potrebenikov, Y. u., Shkarovskiy, S., Zinchenko, A., Rubin, P., Baldini, W., Cotta Ramusino, A., Dalpiaz, P., Fiorini, M., Gianoli, A., Norton, A., Petrucci, F., Savrié, M., Wahl, H., Bizzeti, A., Bucci, F., Iacopini, E., Lenti, M., Veltri, M., Antonelli, A., Moulson, M., Raggi, M., Spadaro, T., Eppard, K., Hita Hochgesand, M., Kleinknecht, K., Renk, B., Wanke, R., Winhart, A., Winston, R., Bolotov, V., Duk, V., Gushchin, E., Ambrosino, Fabio, DI FILIPPO, Domenico, Massarotti, Paolo, Napolitano, Marco, Palladino, Vito, Saracino, Giulio, Anzivino, G., Imbergamo, E., Piandani, R., Sergi, A., Cenci, P., Pepe, M., Costantini, F., Doble, N., Giudici, S., Pierazzini, G., Sozzi, M., Venditti, S., Balev, S., Collazuol, G., Dilella, L., Gallorini, S., Goudzovski, E., Lamanna, G., Mannelli, I., Ruggiero, G., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Kholodenko, S., Kurshetsov, V., Obraztsov, V., Semenov, V., Yushchenko, O., D'Agostini, G., Leonardi, E., Serra, M., Valente, P., Fucci, A., Salamon, A., Bloch Devaux, B., Peyaud, B., Engelfried, J., Coward, D., Kozhuharov, V., Litov, L., Arcidiacono, R., Bifani, S., Biino, C., Dellacasa, G., Marchetto, F., Numao, T., Retière, F., Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers ( IRFU ), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, +pi%2B+pi%22">K+ --> pi+ pi, pi0: radiative decay, S009A, PI, Socio-culturale, Electron, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, NA62, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, electron: pair production, pion form factor, +electron+positron+photon%22">pi0 --> electron positron photon, [ PHYS.HEXP ] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], kaon decays, pion form factor, form factor: slope, PAIR, 0103 physical sciences, transition: electromagnetic, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], RADIATIVE-CORRECTIONS, 010306 general physics, pi0: form factor, Physics, neutral pion, pi0: electromagnetic decay, form factor: transition, DALITZ DECAY, kaon decays, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Momentum transfer, momentum transfer, Form factor (quantum field theory), trigger, charged kaon, lcsh:QC1-999, Large sample, +pi-+pi0%22">K- --> pi- pi0, K: hadronic decay, Particle Physics - Experiment, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, neutral pion, charged kaon, pion form factor, NA62, lcsh:Physics, experimental results
Abstract

The NA62 experiment collected a large sample of charged kaon decays in 2007 with a highly efficient trigger for decays into electrons. A measurement of the $\pi^0$ electromagnetic transition form factor slope parameter from $1.11\times10^{6}$ fully reconstructed $K^\pm \to \pi^\pm \pi^0_D, \pi^0_D \to e^+ e^-\gamma$ events is reported. The measured value $a = (3.68 \pm 0.57)\times10^{-2}$ is in good agreement with theoretical expectations and previous measurements, and represents the most precise experimental determination of the slope in the time-like momentum transfer region., Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures; Revised version accepted for publication in Physics Letters B

Published
2017

47. Initial results from the PIENU experiment

Author

Tristan Sullivan, T. Sullivan, A. Aguilar-Arevalo, M. Aoki, M. Blecher, D.I Britton, D.A Bryman, D. vom Bruch, S. Chen, J. Comfort, S. Cuen-Rochin, L. Doria, P. Gumplinger, A. Hussein, Y. Igarashi, S. Ito, S.H Kettell, L. Kurchaninov, L.S Littenberg, C. Malbrunot, R.E Mischke, T. Numao, D. Protopopescu, A. Sher, and D. Vavilov

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Physics beyond the Standard Model, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Condensed Matter Physics, 01 natural sciences, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear physics, Pion, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 010306 general physics, Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton
Abstract

The pion branching ratio, $R_{\pi } = \frac { {\Gamma }(\pi ^{+} \rightarrow e^{+} \nu _{e} + \pi ^{+}\rightarrow e^{+} \nu _{e} \gamma )}{\Gamma (\pi ^{+} \rightarrow \mu ^{+} \nu _{\mu } + \pi ^{+} \rightarrow \mu ^{+} \nu _{\mu } \gamma )}$ , provides a sensitive test of lepton universality and constraints on many new physics scenarios. The theoretical uncertainty on the Standard Model prediction of R π is 0.02 %, a factor of twenty smaller than the experimental uncertainty. The analysis of a subset of data taken by the PIENU experiment will be presented. The result, R π = (1.2344 ± 0.0023(s t a t) ± 0.0019(s y s t)) ⋅ 10−4 [1], is consistent with the Standard Model prediction and represents a 0.1 % constraint on lepton non-universality.

Published
2017

48. Neutral pion form factor measurement by the NA62 experiment

Author

Fabrizio Petrucci, A. Gonidec, Leander Litov, A. Romano, G. Collazuol, P.L. Frabetti, M. Scarpa, M. Hita-Hochgesand, Marco Clemencic, V K Semenov, F. Retire, S. Balev, M. Martini, V. Obraztsov, V. Kozhuharov, B. Hallgren, V. Falaleev, I. Mannelli, Rainer Wanke, M. Shieh, M. Zamkovsky, Alan W. Walker, Roberto Piandani, P. Rubin, Jacqueline Batley, Mark Slater, N. A. Molokanova, Peter Zahariev Hristov, F. Marchetto, N. Doble, O. Yushchenko, A. Winhart, L. Widhalm, L. Masetti, A. Peters, K. Eppard, M. Napolitano, G. Dellacasa, Vladimir Kekelidze, Evgueni Goudzovski, Tomas Blazek, E. C. Swallow, U. Moosbrugger, Antonino Sergi, A. Cotta Ramusino, Evgeny Gushchin, S. Movchan, H. D. Wahl, Simone Bifani, M. Fidecaro, F. Ambrosino, Andreas Alexander Maier, P. F. Dalpiaz, M. Moulson, F. Costantini, B. Peyaud, E. Iacopini, M. C. Petrucci, Petra Riedler, Mauro Piccini, P. Marouelli, A. Michetti, Konrad Kleinknecht, Paolo Massarotti, C. Damiani, T. Spadaro, T. Numao, G. D'Agostini, Ivan Mikulec, V. Palladino, Paolo Valente, M. Veltri, D. Coward, Anne Dabrowski, Viacheslav Duk, G. Lamanna, G. Marel, Emilio Leonardi, M. Pepe, M. Valdata-Nappi, M. Ziolkowski, I. Polenkevich, M. D. Wood, Jürgen Engelfried, Emmanuel Monnier, R. Fantechi, A.I. Zinchenko, M. Markytan, M. Lenti, Milene Calvetti, F. Bucci, A. Ceccucci, M. Holder, H. O. Danielsson, Milena Misheva, Andrea Bizzeti, M. Koval, S. Venditti, V. Bolotov, S. A. Wotton, C. Cerri, H. Dibon, Wander Baldini, G. Bocquet, Yu. Potrebenikov, J. Derr, Cristina Lazzeroni, M. Savri, E. Imbergamo, Maulik R. Patel, A. Antonelli, Mauro Raggi, C. Morales Morales, D. Di Filippo, J. B. Chze, S. Shkarovskiy, T. Fonseca Martin, S. Goy Lopez, A. Salamon, M. Serra, A. Norton, Roland Winston, Massimiliano Fiorini, S. Gallorini, V. Kurshetsov, Nicolo Cartiglia, Stoyan Stoynev, W. Kubischta, D. J. Munday, S. Giudici, M. Sozzi, L. DiLella, Cristina Biino, M. De Beer, M. Wache, D. T. Madigozhin, E. Mazzucato, P. Cenci, M. Behler, Roberta Arcidiacono, Michal Szleper, Nicola Cabibbo, B. Bloch-Devaux, G.E. Kalmus, A. Nappi, Mayda Velasco, Cvetan Valeriev Cheshkov, G. Saracino, E. Gersabeck, B. Renk, Manfred Jeitler, A. Gianoli, G.M. Pierazzini, G. Anzivino, A. Fucci, Lidia Fiorini, B. Vallage, L. Gatignon, I. Popov, G. Neuhofer, D.C. Cundy, Nicolas Lurkin, G. Ruggiero, Zamkovsky, Michal, Ambrosino, F., Antonelli, A., Anzivino, G., Arcidiacono, R., Baldini, W., Balev, S., Batley, J. R., Behler, M., Bifani, S., Biino, C., Bizzeti, A., Blazek, T., Bloch-Devaux, B., Bocquet, G., Bolotov, V., Bucci, F., Cabibbo, N., Calvetti, M., Cartiglia, N., Ceccucci, A., Cenci, P., Cerri, C., Cheshkov, C., Chze, J. B., Clemencic, M., Collazuol, G., Costantini, F., Cotta Ramusino, A., Coward, D., Cundy, D., Dabrowski, A., Dagostini, G., Dalpiaz, P., Damiani, C., Danielsson, H., De Beer, M., Dellacasa, G., Derr, J., Dibon, H., Di Filippo, D., Dilella, L., Doble, N., Duk, V., Engelfried, J., Eppard, K., Falaleev, V., Fantechi, R., Fidecaro, M., Fiorini, L., Fiorini, M., Fonseca Martin, T., Frabetti, P. L., Fucci, A., Gallorini, S., Gatignon, L., Gersabeck, E., Gianoli, A., Giudici, S., Gonidec, A., Goudzovski, E., Goy Lopez, S., Gushchin, E., Hallgren, B., Hita-Hochgesand, M., Holder, M., Hristov, P., Iacopini, E., Imbergamo, E., Jeitler, M., Kalmus, G., Kekelidze, V., Kleinknecht, K., Koval, M., Kozhuharov, V., Kubischta, W., Kurshetsov, V., Lamanna, G., Lazzeroni, C., Lenti, M., Leonardi, E., Litov, L., Lurkin, N., Madigozhin, D., Maier, A., Mannelli, I., Marchetto, F., Marel, G., Markytan, M., Marouelli, P., Martini, M., Masetti, L., Massarotti, P., Mazzucato, E., Michetti, A., Mikulec, I., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Monnier, E., Moosbrugger, U., Morales Morales, C., Moulson, M., Movchan, S., Munday, D. J., Napolitano, M., Nappi, A., Neuhofer, G., Norton, A., Numao, T., Obraztsov, V., Palladino, V., Patel, M., Pepe, M., Peters, A., Petrucci, F., Petrucci, M. C., Peyaud, B., Piandani, R., Piccini, M., Pierazzini, G., Polenkevich, I., Popov, I., Potrebenikov, Y., Raggi, M., Renk, B., Retire, F., Riedler, P., Romano, A., Rubin, P., Ruggiero, G., Salamon, A., Saracino, G., Savri, M., Scarpa, M., Semenov, V., Sergi, A., Serra, M., Shieh, M., Shkarovskiy, S., Slater, M. W., Sozzi, M., Spadaro, T., Stoynev, S., Swallow, E., Szleper, M., Valdata-Nappi, M., Valente, P., Vallage, B., Velasco, M., Veltri, M., Venditti, S., Wache, M., Wahl, H., Walker, A., Wanke, R., Widhalm, L., Winhart, A., Winston, R., Wood, M. D., Wotton, S. A., Yushchenko, O., Zinchenko, A., and Ziolkowski, M.

Subjects
Physics, History, Particle physics, 02 Physical Sciences, Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Nuclear Theory, Form factor (quantum field theory), Elementary particle, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, 09 Engineering, Dark photon, Computer Science Applications, Education, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), Pion, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Lepton, Dimensionless quantity
Abstract

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 ∼1 million fully reconstructed π 0 Dalitz decay is presented. The limits on dark photon production in π 0 decays from the earlier kaon experiment at CERN, NA48/2, are also reported.

Published
2017

49. Study of the K±→π±γγ decay by the NA62 experiment

Author

T. Spadaro, A. Winhart, M. Lenti, O. Yushchenko, Mauro Piccini, A. I. Zinchenko, Paolo Massarotti, P. L. Frabetti, M. Serra, V. Kurshetsov, S. Kholodenko, Konrad Kleinknecht, Evgueni Goudzovski, A. Gianoli, S. Gallorini, C. Cerri, H. O. Danielsson, M. Moulson, V K Semenov, G. Lamanna, D. T. Madigozhin, T. Numao, N. Doble, Viacheslav Duk, S. Shkarovskiy, B. Renk, Rainer Wanke, M. Veltri, V. Bolotov, Fabrizio Petrucci, G. D'Agostini, D. Coward, A. Norton, Roland Winston, A. Fucci, Vladimir Kekelidze, S. Movchan, A. Ceccucci, E. Imbergamo, M. Pepe, F. Ambrosino, S. Balev, Andrea Bizzeti, M. Misheva, D. Di Filippo, Leander Litov, H. D. Wahl, Emilio Leonardi, B. Peyaud, Petra Riedler, W. Baldini, G. Pierazzini, P. F. Dalpiaz, A. Peters, M. Savrie, Simone Bifani, A. Cotta Ramusino, B. Bloch-Devaux, B. Hallgren, V. Obraztsov, G. Dellacasa, Giuseppe Ruggiero, V. Palladino, F. Marchetto, Jürgen Engelfried, A. Salamon, S. Venditti, F. Costantini, N. A. Molokanova, K. Eppard, V. Falaleev, M. Napolitano, I. Mannelli, A. Romano, G. Collazuol, A. A. Maier, P. Valente, F. Bucci, Cristina Lazzeroni, A. Antonelli, Roberto Piandani, M. Hita-Hochgesand, Roberta Arcidiacono, E. Gushchin, F. Retiere, Antonino Sergi, Evelina Gersabeck, R. Fantechi, Cristina Biino, Lau Gatignon, V. Kozhuharov, Mauro Raggi, P. Rubin, P. Cenci, E. Iacopini, M. Sozzi, Yu. Potrebenikov, L. DiLella, Massimiliano Fiorini, S. Giudici, S. Goy Lopez, G. Saracino, and G. Anzivino

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle decay, Pion, Chiral perturbation theory, Nuclear magnetic resonance, Meson, Branching fraction, Hadron, Analytical chemistry, Elementary particle, Dimensionless quantity
Abstract

A study of the dynamics of the rare decay K ± → π ± γ γ has been performed on a sample of 232 decay candidates, with an estimated background of 17.4 ± 1.1 events, collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2007. The results are combined with those from a measurement conducted by the NA48/2 Collaboration at CERN. The combined model-independent branching ratio in the kinematic range z = ( m γ γ / m K ) 2 > 0.2 is B MI ( z > 0.2 ) = ( 0.965 ± 0.063 ) × 10 − 6 , and the combined branching ratio in the full kinematic range assuming a Chiral Perturbation Theory description is B ( K π γ γ ) = ( 1.003 ± 0.056 ) × 10 − 6 . A detailed comparison of the results with the previous measurements is performed.

Published
2014

50. Search for the rare decayK+→μ+νν¯ν

Author

Yoichi Tamagawa, A. Artamonov, M. Miyajima, J. Hu, Y. Yoshimura, O. V. Mineev, K. Mizouchi, George Redlinger, M. V. Diwan, A. N. Khotjantsev, Yu. G. Kudenko, R. Tschirhart, Takashi Nomura, A. Konaka, T. Fujiwara, Norihito Muramatsu, I-H. Chiang, A. Shaikhiev, P. S. Cooper, R. Poutissou, S. Sugimoto, D. V. Vavilov, D. I. Patalakha, A. O. Izmaylov, L. G. Landsberg, Masaaki Kobayashi, S. Kabe, Ewart W. Blackmore, T. Sato, L. S. Littenberg, I. A. Christidi, T. Sekiguchi, K. Omata, S. H. Kettell, V. Obraztsov, T. Tsunemi, J. Ives, T. Numao, Hanyu Wei, M. M. Khabibullin, J. A. Macdonald, Masaharu Nomachi, B. Bassalleck, Tamaki Yoshioka, B. Viren, Song Chen, N. V. Yershov, B. Lewis, T. Nakano, D. E. Jaffe, K. K. Li, Douglas Bryman, J. Mildenberger, R. C. Strand, T. K. Komatsubara, James Frank, P. Kitching, B. Bhuyan, T. Shinkawa, and Zhe Wang

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, National laboratory, 01 natural sciences
Abstract

Evidence of the ${K}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{+}\ensuremath{\nu}\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}\ensuremath{\nu}$ decay was searched for using E949 (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) experimental data with an exposure of $1.70\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}1{0}^{12}$ stopped kaons. The data sample is dominated by the background process ${K}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}\ensuremath{\gamma}$. An upper limit on the decay rate $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}({K}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{+}\ensuremath{\nu}\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}\ensuremath{\nu})l2.4\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}6}\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}({K}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\text{all})$ at 90% confidence level was set assuming the standard model muon spectrum. The data are presented in such a way as to allow calculation of rates for any assumed ${\ensuremath{\mu}}^{+}$ spectrum.

Published
2016

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