The NA62 experiment at CERN offers the highest experimental sensitivity to rare and forbidden kaon decays. A search for lepton number violating processes K+ → π−e+e+ and K+ → π−µ+µ+, using a partial data set collected by NA62 in 2016-2018, is reported. No signals are observed and upper limits at 90% confidence level on the branching fractions of these decays are obtained: 2.2 × 10−10 and 4.2 × 10−11, respectively. These results improve on previously reported measurements by factors of 3 and 2, respectively.
Searches for lepton flavour and lepton number violation in K+ decays / Romano A., Aliberti R., Ambrosino F., Ammendola R., Angelucci B., Antonelli A., Anzivino G., Arcidiacono R., Bache T., Barbanera M., Bernhard J., Biagioni A., Bician L., Biino C., Bizzeti A., Blazek T., Bloch-Devaux B., Bonaiuto V., Boretto M., Bragadireanu M., et al.. - In: POS PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 1824-8039. - ELETTRONICO. - 364:(2019), pp. 222.0-222.0.
Searches for lepton flavour and lepton number violation in K+ decays
Bizzeti A.
;Bucci F.
;Cerri C.;Corvino M.;D'Agostini G.;Di Lella L.;Fantechi R.;Graham C.;Guida R.;Iacopini E.
;Lari E.;Latino G.
;Lenti M.
;Leonardi E.;Mannelli I.;Marchevski R.
;Migliore E.;Minucci E.;Raggi M.;Ruggiero G.
;Sergi A.;Vicini P.;Volpe R.
;
2019
Abstract
The NA62 experiment at CERN offers the highest experimental sensitivity to rare and forbidden kaon decays. A search for lepton number violating processes K+ → π−e+e+ and K+ → π−µ+µ+, using a partial data set collected by NA62 in 2016-2018, is reported. No signals are observed and upper limits at 90% confidence level on the branching fractions of these decays are obtained: 2.2 × 10−10 and 4.2 × 10−11, respectively. These results improve on previously reported measurements by factors of 3 and 2, respectively.I documenti in FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.



