Measurement of the very rare K⁺ → π⁺ν(Equation presented) decay at the NA62 experiment at CERN

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Fiorenza, R, Akmete, A, Aliberti, R, Ambrosino, F, Ammendola, R, Angelucci, B, Antonelli, A, Anzivino, G, Arcidiacono, R, Bache, T et al (show 90 more authors) , Baeva, A, Baigarashev, D, Bandiera, L, Barbanera, M, Bernhard, J, Biagioni, A, Bician, L, Biino, C, Bizzeti, A, Blazek, T, Bloch-Devaux, B, Boboc, P, Bonaiuto, V, Boretto, M, Bragadireanu, M, Briano Olvera, A, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, Brunetti, MB, 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'Errico, 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, 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, EB, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D ORCID: 0000-0002-4174-6509, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Imbergamo, E, Jenninger, B and Jerhot, J (2022) Measurement of the very rare K⁺ → π⁺ν(Equation presented) decay at the NA62 experiment at CERN. .

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Abstract

The NA62 experiment reports the branching ratio measurement BR(K+ → π+ν(Equation presented)) 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(Equation presented) 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.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2022 13:42
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2023 20:36
Open Access URL:	https://pos.sissa.it/402/176/
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3165368