Search for lepton number and flavour violation in K+ and pi0 decays

Akmete, A. et al. (2022) Search for lepton number and flavour violation in K+ and pi0 decays. In: Particles and Nuclei International Conference-PANIC 2021, Online, 5-10 Sept 2021, (doi: 10.22323/1.380.0426)

Abstract

The NA62 experiment at CERN collected a large sample of charged kaon decays into final states with multiple charged particles in 2016-2018. This sample provides sensitivities to rare decays with branching ratios as low as 10 −11 . Searches for the lepton number violating K + → π − µ + e+ decay and the lepton flavour violating K + → π + µ − e + and π 0 → µ − e + decays are reported. No evidence for these decays is found and upper limits of the branching ratios are obtained at 90% confidence level. These results improve by one order of magnitude over previous results for these decay modes.

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• Additional Information: Proceedings of Science, volume 380. Na62 Collaboration.
• Status: Published
• 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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