The NA48/2 experiment at CERN reports the first observation of the $K^± → π^0π^0μ^±$ν decay based on a sample of 2437 candidates with 15% background contamination collected in 2003–2004. The decay ...branching ratio in the kinematic region of the squared dilepton mass above 0.03 GeV2/c4 is measured to be (0.65 ± 0.03) × 10–6. The extrapolation to the full kinematic space, using a specific model, is found to be (3.45 ± 0.16) × 10–6, in agreement with chiral perturbation theory predictions.
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bstract
The NA48/2 experiment at CERN reports the first observation of the
K
±
→
π
0
π
0
μ
±
ν
decay based on a sample of 2437 candidates with 15% background contamination collected in 2003–2004. ...The decay branching ratio in the kinematic region of the squared dilepton mass above 0.03 GeV
2
/
c
4
is measured to be (0.65 ± 0.03) × 10
−
6
. The extrapolation to the full kinematic space, using a specific model, is found to be (3.45 ± 0.16) × 10
−
6
, in agreement with chiral perturbation theory predictions.
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The spin-exchange collision cross-section for hydrogen atoms has been measured for the first time in the low temperature range 40–100 K by using the polarized hydrogen gas target of the HERMES ...experiment at DESY (Hamburg, Germany). The results agree with a previous measurement in the overlapping temperature region 80–100 K, while seem to hint an increasing behaviour with temperature in the region 50–80 K.
Bent silicon crystals mounted on high-accuracy angular actuators were installed in the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and extensively tested to assess the feasibility of crystal-assisted ...collimation in circular hadron colliders. The adopted layout was exploited and regularly upgraded for about a decade by the UA9 Collaboration. The investigations provided the compelling evidence of a strong reduction of beam losses induced by nuclear inelastic interactions in the aligned crystals in comparison with amorphous orientation. A conceptually similar device, installed in the betatron cleaning insertion of CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), was operated through the complete acceleration and storage cycle and demonstrated a large reduction of the background leaking from the collimation region and radiated into the cold sections of the accelerator and the experimental detectors. The implemented layout and the relevant results of the beam tests performed in the SPS and in the LHC with stored proton and ion beams are extensively discussed.
A study of the K+→ π0e+νγ decay Cortina Gil, E.; Minucci, E.; Petrov, P. ...
The journal of high energy physics,
7/9, Volume:
2023, Issue:
9
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
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A sample of 1
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3 × 10
5
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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