Measurement of the very rare K+→π+νν ̄decay at the NA62 experiment at CERN

Akmete, A. et al. (2022) Measurement of the very rare K+→π+νν ̄decay at the NA62 experiment at CERN. In: The 22nd International Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators (NuFact 2021), Cagliari, Italy, 6–11 Sep 2021, (doi: 10.22323/1.402.0176)

Abstract

The NA62 experiment reports the branching ratio measurement BR(K+→π+νν¯) 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+νν¯ 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 . The result represents the most accurate measurement achieved so far of this ultra-rare decay. Future prospects and plans for data taking from 2021 will also be presented.

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• Additional Information: Proceedings of Science, volume 402. Na62 Collaboration.
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• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Norton, Dr Alan and Jones, Mr Russell and Angelucci, Dr Bruno and Britton, Professor David and Protopopescu, Dr Dan
• Authors: Akmete, A., Aliberti, R., Ambrosino, F., Ammendola, R., Angelucci, B., Antonelli, A., Anzivino, G., Arcidiacono, R., Bache, T., Baeva, A., Baigarashev, D., Bandiera, L., Barbanera, M., Bernhard, J., Biagioni, A., Bician, L., Biino, C., Bizzeti, A., Blazek, T., Bloch-Devaux, B., Boboc, V., Bonaiuto, M., Boretto, M., Bragadireanu, M., Briano Olvera, A., Britton, D., Brizioli, F., Brunetti, M.B., Bryman, D., Bucci, F., Capussela, T., Carmignani, J., Ceccucci, A., Cenci, P., Cerny, V., Cerri, C., Checcucci, B., Conovaloff, A., Cooper, P., Cortina Gil, E., Corvino, M., Costantini, F., Cotta Ramusino, A., Coward, D., Cretaro, P., D'Agostini, G., Dainton, J., Dalpiaz, P., Danielsson, H., D'Arrico, M., De Simone, N., Di Filippo, D., Di Lella, L., Doble, N., Dobrich, B., Duval, F., Duk, V., Emelyanov, D., Engelfried, J., Enik, T., Estrada-Tristan, N., Falaleev, V., Fantechi, R., Fascianelli, V., Federici, L., Fedotov, S., Filippi, A., Fiorenza, R., Fiorini, M., Frezza, O., Fry, J., Fu, J., Fucci, A., Fulton, L., Gamberini, E., Gatignon, L., Georgiev, G., Ghinescu, S., Gianoli, A., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Gonnella, F., Gorshanov, K., Goudzovski, E., Graham, C., Guida, R., Gushchin, E., Hahn, F., Heath, H., Henshaw, J., Hives, Z., Holzer, E.B., Husek, T., Hutanu, O., Hutchcroft, D., Iacobuzio, L., Iacopini, E., Imbergamo, E., Jenninger, B., Jones, R.W., Kampf, K., Kekelidze, V., Kereibay, D., 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., Lari, E., Latino, G., Laycock, P., Lazzeroni, C., Lenti, M., Lehmann Miotto, G., Leonardi, E., Lichard, P., Litov, L., Lo Chiatto, P., Lollini, R., Lomidze, D., Lonardo, A., Lubrano, P., Lupi, M., Lurkin, N., Madigozhin, D., Mannelli, I., Mapelli, A., Marchetto, F., Marchevski, R., Martellotti, S., Massarotti, P., Massri, K., Maurice, E., Mazzolari, A., Medvedeva, M., 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., Okhotnikov, A., Ostankov, A., Padolski, S., Page, R., Palladino, V., Panichi, I., Parenti, A., Parkinson, C., Pedreschi, E., Pepe, M., Perrin-Terrin, M., Peruzzo, L., Petrov, P., Petrov, Y., Petrucci, F., Piandani, R., Piccini, M., Pinzino, J., Polenkevich, I., Pontisso, L., Potrebenikov, Y., Protopopescu, D., Raggi, m., Reyes Santos, M., Romagnoni, M., Romano, A., Rubin, P., Ruggiero, G., Ryjov, V., Sadovsky, A., Salamon, A., Santoni, C., Saracino, g., Sargeni, F., Schuchmann, S., Semenov, V., Sergi, A., Shaikhiev, A., Shkarovskiy, S., Soldani, M., Soldi, D., Sozzi, M., Spadaro, T., Spinella, F., Sturgess, A., Sugonyaev, V., Swallow, J., Sytov, A., Tinti, G., Tomczak, A., Trilov, S., Turisini, M., Valente, P., Velghe, B., Venditti, S., Vicini, P., Volpe, R., Vormstein, M., Wahl, H., Wanke, R., Wong, V., Wrona, B., Yushchenko, O., Zamkovsky, M., and Zinchenko, A.
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