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 π0 Dalitz decay is presented. The limits on dark photon production in π0 decays from the earlier kaon experiment at CERN, NA48/2, are also reported.
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.
A study of the dynamics of the rare decay K±→π±γγ 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=(mγγ/mK)2>0.2 is BMI(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(Kπγγ)=(1.003±0.056)×10−6. A detailed comparison of the results with the previous measurements is performed.
NA48/2 results contributing to ChPT testing are presented. A sample of 1663 events of the rare decay $ K^ \pm \to \mu ^ \pm ve^ + e^ - $ has been selected with a minimum
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effective mass of 140 ...MeV. The measured model independent decay rate is in agreement with ChPT predictions. The branching ratio of the $ K^ \pm \to \mu ^ \pm ve^ + e^ - $ decay, never observed so far, has been obtained from a sample of about 5000 candidates with less than 6% background, also in agreement with ChPT predictions. In addition, a most precise measurement of the charged kaon semileptonic formfactors has been obtained from 4.4 million
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events collected in 2004.
The NA48/2 experiment at CERN collected two data samples with minimum bias trigger conditions in 2003 and 2004. A measurement of the rate and dynamic properties of the rare decay K±→π±γγ from these ...data sets based on 149 decay candidates with an estimated background of 15.5±0.7 events is reported. The model-independent branching ratio in the kinematic range z=(mγγ/mK)2>0.2 is measured to be BMI(z>0.2)=(0.877±0.089)×10−6, and the branching ratio in the full kinematic range assuming a particular Chiral Perturbation Theory description to be B(Kπγγ)=(0.910±0.075)×10−6.
We present a measurement of the ratio of the decay rates Γ(KL→π+π−)/Γ(KL→π±e∓ν), denoted as ΓK2π/ΓKe3. The analysis is based on data taken during a dedicated run in 1999 by the NA48 experiment at the ...CERN SPS. Using a sample of 47 000 K2π and five million Ke3 decays, we find ΓK2π/ΓKe3=(4.835±0.022stat.±0.016syst.)×10−3. From this we derive the branching ratio of the CP violating decay KL→π+π− and the CP violation parameter |η+−|. Excluding the CP conserving direct photon emission component KL→π+π−γ, we obtain the results BR(KL→π+π−)=(1.941±0.019)×10−3 and |η+−|=(2.223±0.012)×10−3.
From the 2002 data taking with a neutral kaon beam extracted from the CERN-SPS, the NA48/1 experiment observed 97 Ξ0→Σ+μ−ν¯μ candidates with a background contamination of 30.8±4.2 events. From this ...sample, the BR(Ξ0→Σ+μ−ν¯μ) is measured to be (2.17±0.32stat±0.17syst)×10−6.
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