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Ammendola et al This content was downloaded from IP address 170.106.40.219 on 25/09/2021 at 10:11 4th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries (DISCRETE2014) IOP Publishing Journal of Physics: Conference Series 631 (2015) 012040 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/631/1/012040 Precision tests of the Standard Model with Kaon decays at CERN Karim Massri 1;2 University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected] 1 On behalf of the NA48/2 Collaboration: G. Anzivino, R. Arcidiacono, W. Baldini, S. Balev, J.R. Batley, M. Behler, S. Bifani, C. Biino, A. Bizzeti, B. Bloch-Devaux, G. Bocquet, N. Cabibbo, M. Calvetti, N. Cartiglia, A. Ceccucci, P. Cenci, C. Cerri, C. Cheshkov, J.B. Ch`eze,M. Clemencic, G. Collazuol, F. Costantini, A. Cotta Ramusino, D. Coward, D. Cundy, A. Dabrowski, P. Dalpiaz, C. Damiani, M. De Beer, J. Derr´e,H. Dibon, L. DiLella, N. Doble, K. Eppard, V. Falaleev, R. Fantechi, M. Fidecaro, L. Fiorini, M. Fiorini, T. Fonseca Martin, P.L. Frabetti, L. Gatignon, E. Gersabeck, A. Gianoli, S. Giudici, A. Gonidec, E. Goudzovski, S. Goy Lopez, M. Holder, P. Hristov, E. Iacopini, E. Imbergamo, M. Jeitler, G. Kalmus, V. Kekelidze, K. Kleinknecht, V. Kozhuharov, W. Kubischta, G. Lamanna, C. Lazzeroni, M. Lenti, L. Litov, D. Madigozhin, A. Maier, I. Mannelli, F. Marchetto, G. Marel, M. Markytan, P. Marouelli, M. Martini, L. Masetti, E. Mazzucato, A. Michetti, I. Mikulec, N. Molokanova, E. Monnier, U. Moosbrugger, C. Morales Morales, D.J. Munday, A. Nappi, G. Neuhofer, A. Norton, M. Patel, M. Pepe, A. Peters, F. Petrucci, M.C. Petrucci, B. Peyaud, M. Piccini, G. Pierazzini, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Potrebenikov, M. Raggi, B. Renk, P. Rubin, G. Ruggiero, M. Savri´e,M. Scarpa, M. Shieh, M.W. Slater, M. Sozzi, S. Stoynev, E. Swallow, M. Szleper, M. Valdata-Nappi, B. Vallage, M. Velasco, M. Veltri, S. Venditti, M. Wache, H. Wahl, A. Walker, R. Wanke, L. Widhalm, A. Winhart, R. Winston, M.D. Wood, S.A. Wotton, A. Zinchenko, M. Ziolkowski. 2 On behalf of the NA62 Collaboration: G. Aglieri Rinella, R. Aliberti, F. Ambrosino, B. Angelucci, A. Antonelli, G. Anzivino, R. Arcidiacono, I. Azhinenko, S. Balev, J. Bendotti, A. Biagioni, C. Biino, A. Bizzeti, T. Blazek, A. Blik, B. Bloch-Devaux, V. Bolotov, V. Bonaiuto, M. Bragadireanu, D. Britton, G. Britvich, N. Brook, F. Bucci, V. Buescher, F. Butin, E. Capitolo, C. Capoccia, T. Capussela, V. Carassiti, N. Cartiglia, A. Cassese, A. Catinaccio, A. Cecchetti, A. Ceccucci, P. Cenci, V. Cerny, C. Cerri, O. Chikilev, R. Ciaranfi, G. Collazuol, P. Cooke, P. Cooper, G. Corradi, E. Cortina Gil, F. Costantini, A. Cotta Ramusino, D. Coward, G. D'Agostini, J. Dainton, P. Dalpiaz, H. Danielsson, J. Degrange, N. De Simone, D. Di Filippo, L. Di Lella, N. Dixon, N. Doble, V. Duk, V. Elsha, J. Engelfried, T. Enik, V. Falaleev, R. Fantechi, L. Federici, M. Fiorini, J. Fry, A. Fucci, L. Fulton, S. Gallorini, L. Gatignon, A. Gianoli, S. Giudici, L. Glonti, A. Goncalves Martins, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, R. Guida, E. Gushchin, F. Hahn, B. Hallgren, H. Heath, F. Herman, D. Hutchcroft, E. Iacopini, O. Jamet, P. Jarron, K. Kampf, J. Kaplon, V. Karjavin, V. Kekelidze, S. Kholodenko, G. Khoriauli, A. Khudyakov, Yu. Kiryushin, K. Kleinknecht, A. Kluge, M. Koval, V. Kozhuharov, M. Krivda, Y. Kudenko, J. Kunze, G. Lamanna, C. Lazzeroni, R. Leitner, R. Lenci, M. Lenti, E. Leonardi, P. Lichard, R. Lietava, L. Litov, D. Lomidze, A. Lonardo, N. Lurkin, D. Madigozhin, G. Maire, A. Makarov, I. Mannelli, G. Mannocchi, A. Mapelli, F. Marchetto, P. Massarotti, K. Massri, P. Matak, G. Mazza, E. Menichetti, M. Mirra, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, J. Morant, M. Morel, M. Moulson, S. Movchan, D. Munday, M. Napolitano, F. Newson, A. Norton, M. Noy, G. Nuessle, V. Obraztsov, S. Padolski, R. Page, V. Palladino, A. Pardons, E. Pedreschi, M. Pepe, F. Perez Gomez, M. Perrin-Terrin, P. Petrov, F. Petrucci, R. Piandani, M. Piccini, D. Pietreanu, J. Pinzino, M. 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Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd 1 4th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries (DISCRETE2014) IOP Publishing Journal of Physics: Conference Series 631 (2015) 012040 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/631/1/012040 Abstract. Recent results and prospects for precision tests of the Standard Model in kaon decay-in-flight experiments at CERN are presented. A measurement of the ratio of leptonic decay rates of the charged kaon at the level of 0.4% precision constrains the parameter space of new physics models with extended Higgs sector, a fourth generation of quarks and leptons or sterile neutrinos. Searches for heavy neutrino mass states and the dark photon in the ∼ 100 MeV/c2 mass range based on samples collected in 2003-2007 are in progress and prospects will be discussed. The NA62 experiment, starting in 2014, will search for a range of lepton number and lepton flavour violating decays of the charged kaon and the neutral pion at improved sensitivities down to ∼ 10−12, which will probe new physics scenarios involving heavy Majorana neutrinos or R-parity violating SUSY. 1. Introduction Since their discovery in late '40s, kaons have been instrumental in understanding the fundamental interactions of nature. The tremendous impact of kaon physics in the development of the Standard Model includes the observation of kaon decay modes with different parity (the so- called \# − τ paradox"), which led to the discovery of the parity symmetry violation in weak interactions, and the evidence for a second generation of quarks. In fact, the quantum number \strangeness" was introduced to explain the anomalously large lifetime of kaons, which successively led to the postulation of the \strange" quark and the quark model, while the existence of the \charm" quark was hypothesised to explain the observed suppression of the + − ± ± KL ! µ µ with respect to the charged analogous K ! µ ν (GIM mechanism). Another milestone of the kaon physics was to provide the first evidence of indirect and direct CP violation, by the precision measurement of neutral kaon decay rates. Nowadays, kaon physics is still a unique probe of the flavour sector of the Standard Model (SM). The clean environment allows precise theoretical predictions, which leads to high experimental sensitivity to new physics. An exemplar quantity with such characteristics is the ratio RK of the leptonic decay rates of the charged kaons, which probes the lepton universality in the SM and is sensitive to a vast number of beyond the SM (BSM) scenarios. In addition, the large statistics of the collected samples allows the study of rare K± decay modes, as well as the search for dark matter candidates or forbidden Lepton Number/Flavour Violating (LNFV) decays. The recent results obtained from the NA48/2 and NA62 experiments, the two most recent in a long tradition of fixed-target kaon experiments in the CERN North Area (NA), are presented, and the prospects for the forthcoming three-year long data taking, aimed to precisely measure the branching ratio of the K+ ! π+νν¯ decay, are discussed. 2. Experimental Apparatus and Data Taking conditions The NA48/2 experiment at CERN SPS was a multi-purpose K± experiment which collected data in 2003-2004, whose main goal was to search for direct CP violation in the K± ! π±π+π− and K± ! π±π0π0 decays [1]. In order to minimise the systematic bias in the comparison between K+ and K− decays, simultaneous and collinear K+ and K− beams of the same momentum (60 ± 3:7) GeV/c were produced by the 400 GeV/c SPS primary proton beam, which impinged on a Beryllium target, and were steered into a 114 m long decay region, contained in a vacuum (at pressure < 10−4 mbar) cylindrical tank, to avoid interactions of kaon decay products before detection. Fig. 1 shows the NA48/2 beam line. The downstream part of the vacuum tank was sealed by a convex Kevlar window, that separated the vacuum from the helium at atmospheric pressure in which a magnetic spectrometer, formed of 4 drift chambers (DCHs) and a dipole magnet providing a horizontal momentum kick pt = 120 MeV=c, was installed. The magnet polarity was inverted on a daily basis, in order to minimise the systematic bias due to different acceptances for the K+ and K− decay products.