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.
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.
The KS→π+π−e+e− decay mode was investigated using the data collected in 2002 by the NA48/1 Collaboration. With about 23 k KS→π+π−e+e− events and 59 k KL→π+π−πD0 normalization decays, the KS→π+π−e+e− ...branching ratio relative to the KL→π+π−πD0 one was determined to be BR(KS→π+π−e+e−)/BR(KL→π+π−πD0)=(3.28±0.06stat±0.04syst)×10−2. This result was used to set the upper limit |gE1/gBR|<3.0 at 90% CL on the presence, in the decay amplitude, of an E1 direct emission (gE1) term relative to the dominant inner bremsstrahlung (gBR) term. The CP-violating asymmetry Aϕ in the sinϕcosϕ distribution of KS→π+π−e+e− events, where ϕ is the angle between the π+π− and the e+e− decay planes in the kaon centre of mass, was found to be Aϕ=(−0.4±0.8)%, consistent with zero. These results are in good agreement with a description of the KS→π+π−e+e− decay amplitude dominated by the CP-even inner bremsstrahlung process.
The direct CP violation parameter Re(epsilon'/epsilon) has been measured from the decay rates of neutral kaons into two pions using the NA48 detector at the CERN SPS. With 3.3 million KL->pi0pi0 ...events collected during the 1998 and 1999 running periods, a result of Re(epsilon'/epsilon) = (15.0 +- 2.7)x10-4 has been obtained. The result combined with the published 1997 sample is Re(epsilon'/epsilon) = (15.3 +- 2.6)x10-4.
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