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1. First observation and study of the $K^{\pm} \rightarrow \pi^{0} \pi^{0} \mu^{\pm} \nu$ decay

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Collaboration, NA48/2, Batley, J. R., Kalmus, G., Lazzeroni, C., Munday, D. J., Slater, M. W., Wotton, S. A., Arcidiacono, R., Ceccucci, A., Bocquet, G., Cabibbo, N., Cundy, D., Falaleev, V., Gatignon, L., Fidecaro, M., Gonidec, A., Kubischta, W., Maier, A., Norton, A., Patel, M., Peters, A., Balev, S., Frabetti, P. L., Gersabeck, E., Goudzovski, E., Hristov, P., Kekelidze, V., Madigozhin, D., Molokanova, N., Polenkevich, I., Potrebenikov, Yu., Korotkova, A., Stoynev, S., Zinchenko, A., Kozhuharov, V., Litov, L., Monnier, E., Swallow, E., Winston, R., Rubin, P., Walker, A., Baldini, W., Ramusino, A. Cotta, Dalpiaz, P., Damiani, C., Fiorini, M., Gianoli, A., Martini, M., Petrucci, F., Savrié, M., Scarpa, M., Wahl, H., Bizzeti, A., Veltri, M., Calvetti, M., Celeghini, E., Iacopini, E., Lenti, M., Ruggiero, G., Behler, M., Eppard, K., Hita-Hochgesand, M., Kleinknecht, K., Marouelli, P., Masetti, L., Moosbrugger, U., Morales, C. Morales, Renk, B., Wache, M., Winhart, A., Wanke, R., Coward, D., Dabrowski, A., Martin, T. Fonseca, Shieh, M., Szleper, M., Velasco, M., Wood, M. D., Cenci, P., Pepe, M., Petrucci, M. C., Anzivino, G., Imbergamo, E., Nappi, A., Piccini, M., Raggi, M., Valdata-Nappi, M., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Collazuol, G., Di Lella, L., Lamanna, G., Mannelli, I., Michetti, A., Costantini, F., Doble, N., Fiorini, L., Giudici, S., Pierazzini, G., Sozzi, M., Venditti, S., Bloch-Devaux, B., Peyaud, B., Cheshkov, C., Chèze, J. B., De Beer, M., Derré, J., Marel, G., Mazzucato, E., Vallage, B., Holder, M., Ziolkowski, M., Biino, C., Cartiglia, N., Marchetto, F., Bifani, S., Clemencic, M., Lopez, S. Goy, Dibon, H., Jeitler, M., Markytan, M., Mikulec, I., Neuhofer, G., and Widhalm, L.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The NA48/2 experiment at CERN reports the first observation of the $K^{\pm} \rightarrow \pi^{0} \pi^{0} \mu^{\pm} \nu$ 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 $(0.65 \pm 0.03) \times 10^{-6}$. The extrapolation to the full kinematic space, using a specific model, is found to be $(3.45 \pm 0.16) \times 10^{-6}$, in agreement with chiral perturbation theory predictions., Comment: 16 pages, 9 figures

Published
2023
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2. The integrated low-level trigger and readout system of the CERN NA62 experiment

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Ammendola, R., Angelucci, B., Barbanera, M., Biagioni, A., Cerny, V., Checcucci, B., Fantechi, R., Gonnella, F., Koval, M., Krivda, M., Lamanna, G., Lupi, M., Lonardo, A., Papi, A., Parkinson, C., Pedreschi, E., Petrov, P., Piandani, R., Pinzino, J., Pontisso, L., Raggi, M., Soldi, D., Sozzi, M. S., Spinella, F., Venditti, S., and Vicini, P.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The integrated low-level trigger and data acquisition (TDAQ) system of the NA62 experiment at CERN is described. The requirements of a large and fast data reduction in a high-rate environment for a medium-scale, distributed ensemble of many different sub-detectors led to the concept of a fully digital integrated system with good scaling capabilities. The NA62 TDAQ system is rather unique in allowing full flexibility on this scale, allowing in principle any information available from the detector to be used for triggering. The design concept, implementation and performances from the first years of running are illustrated., Comment: 32 pages, 23 figures

Published
2019
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3. Search for $K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+}\nu\overline{\nu}$ at NA62

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NA62 Collaboration, Rinella, G. Aglieri, Aliberti, R., Ambrosino, F., Ammendola, R., Angelucci, B., Antonelli, A., Anzivino, G., Arcidiacono, R., Azhinenko, I., Balev, S., Barbanera, M., Bendotti, J., Biagioni, A., Bician, L., Biino, C., Bizzeti, A., Blazek, T., Blik, A., Bloch-Devaux, B., Bolotov, V., Bonaiuto, V., Boretto, M., Bragadireanu, M., Britton, D., Britvich, G., Brunetti, M. B., Bryman, D., Bucci, F., Butin, F., Calvo, J., Capitolo, E., Capoccia, C., Capussela, T., Cassese, A., Catinaccio, A., Cecchetti, A., Ceccucci, A., Cenci, P., Cerny, V., Cerri, C., Checcucci, B., Chikilev, O., Chiozzi, S., Ciaranfi, R., Collazuol, G., Conovaloff, A., Cooke, P., Cooper, P., Corradi, G., Gil, E. Cortina, Costantini, F., Cotorobai, F., Ramusino, A. Cotta, Coward, D., D'Agostini, G., Dainton, J., Dalpiaz, P., Danielsson, H., Degrange, J., De Simone, N., Di Filippo, D., Di Lella, L., Di Lorenzo, S., Dixon, N., Doble, N., Dobrich, B., Duk, V., Elsha, V., Engelfried, J., Enik, T., Estrada, N., Falaleev, V., Fantechi, R., Fascianelli, V., Federici, L., Fedotov, S., Filippi, A., Fiorini, M., Fry, J., Fu, J., Fucci, A., Fulton, L., Gallorini, S., Galeotti, S., Gamberini, E., Gatignon, L., Georgiev, G., Ghinescu, S., Gianoli, A., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Glonti, L., Martins, A. Goncalves, Gonnella, F., Goudzovski, E., Guida, R., Gushchin, E., Hahn, F., Hallgren, B., Heath, H., Herman, F., Husek, T., Hutanu, O., Hutchcroft, D., Iacobuzio, L., Iacopini, E., Imbergamo, E., Jamet, O., Jarron, P., Jones, E., Kampf, T. Jones K., Kaplon, J., Kekelidze, V., Kholodenko, S., Khoriauli, G., Khotyantsev, A., Khudyakov, A., Kiryushin, Yu., Kleimenova, A., Kleinknecht, K., Kluge, A., Koval, M., Kozhuharov, V., Krivda, M., Kucerova, Z., Kudenko, Yu., Kunze, J., Lamanna, G., Latino, G., Lazzeroni, C., Lehmann-Miotto, G., Lenci, R., Lenti, M., Leonardi, E., Lichard, P., Lietava, R., Likhacheva, V., Litov, L., Lollini, R., Lomidze, D., Lonardo, A., Lupi, M., Lurkin, N., McCormick, K., Madigozhin, D., Maire, G., Mandeiro, C., Mannelli, I., Mannocchi, G., Mapelli, A., Marchetto, F., Marchevski, R., Martellotti, S., Massarotti, P., Massri, K., Matak, P., Maurice, E., Medvedeva, M., Mefodev, A., Menichetti, E., Migliore, E., Minucci, E., Mirra, M., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Morant, J., Morel, M., Moulson, M., Movchan, S., Munday, D., Napolitano, M., Neri, I., Newson, F., Noël, J., Norton, A., Noy, M., Nuessle, G., Numao, T., Obraztsov, V., Ostankov, A., Padolski, S., Page, R., Palladino, V., Paoluzzi, G., Parkinson, C., Pedreschi, E., Pepe, M., Gomez, F. Perez, Perrin-Terrin, M., Peruzzo, L., Petrov, P., Petrucci, F., Piandani, R., Piccini, M., Pietreanu, D., Pinzino, J., Polenkevich, I., Pontisso, L., Potrebenikov, Yu., Protopopescu, D., Raffaelli, F., Raggi, M., Riedler, P., Romano, A., Rubin, P., Ruggiero, G., Russo, V., Ryjov, V., Salamon, A., Salina, G., Samsonov, V., Santoni, C., Saracino, G., Sargeni, F., Semenov, V., Sergi, A., Serra, M., Shaikhiev, A., Shkarovskiy, S., Skillicorn, I., Soldi, D., Sotnikov, A., Sugonyaev, V., Sozzi, M., Spadaro, T., Spinella, F., Staley, R., Sturgess, A., Sutcliffe, P., Szilasi, N., Tagnani, D., Trilov, S., Valdata-Nappi, M., Valente, P., Vasile, M., Vassilieva, T., Velghe, B., Veltri, M., Venditti, S., Vicini, P., Volpe, R., Vormstein, M., Wahl, H., Wanke, R., Wertelaers, P., Winhart, A., Winston, R., Wrona, B., Yushchenko, O., Zamkovsky, M., and Zinchenko, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

$K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+}\nu\overline{\nu}$ is one of the theoretically cleanest meson decay where to look for indirect effects of new physics complementary to LHC searches. The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is designed to measure the branching ratio of this decay with 10\% precision. NA62 took data in pilot runs in 2014 and 2015 reaching the final designed beam intensity. The quality of 2015 data acquired, in view of the final measurement, will be presented., Comment: proceeding of the conference New Trends in High-Energy Physics 2016

Published
2018

4. ChPT tests at the NA48 and NA62 experiments at CERN

Author

NA48/2, Collaborations, NA62, Ambrosino, F., Antonelli, A., Anzivino, G., Arcidiacono, R., Baldini, W., Balev, S., Batley, J. R., Behler, M., Bifani, S., Biino, C., Bizzeti, A., Bloch-Devaux, B., Bocquet, G., Bolotov, V., Bucci, F., Cabibbo, N., Calvetti, M., Cartiglia, N., Ceccucci, A., Cenci, P., Cerri, C., Cheshkov, C., Chèze, J. B., Clemencic, M., Collazuol, G., Costantini, F., Ramusino, A. Cotta, Coward, D., Cundy, D., Dabrowski, A., D'Agostini, G., Dalpiaz, P., Damiani, C., Danielsson, H., De Beer, M., Dellacasa, G., Derré, J., Dibon, H., Di Filippo, D., DiLella, L., Doble, N., Duk, V., Engelfried, J., Eppard, K., Falaleev, V., Fantechi, R., Fidecaro, M., Fiorini, L., Fiorini, M., Martin, T. Fonseca, Frabetti, P. L., Fucci, A., Gallorini, S., Gatignon, L., Gersabeck, E., Gianoli, A., Giudici, S., Gonidec, A., Goudzovski, E., Lopez, S. Goy, Gushchin, E., Hallgren, B., Hita-Hochgesand, M., Holder, M., Hristov, P., Iacopini, E., Imbergamo, E., Jeitler, M., Kalmus, G., Kekelidze, V., Kleinknecht, K., Kozhuharov, V., Kubischta, W., Kurshetsov, V., Lamanna, G., Lazzeroni, C., Lenti, M., Leonardi, E., Litov, L., Madigozhin, D., Maier, A., Mannelli, I., Marchetto, F., Marel, G., Markytan, M., Marouelli, P., Martini, M., Masetti, L., Massarotti, P., Mazzucato, E., Michetti, A., Mikulec, I., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Monnier, E., Moosbrugger, U., Morales, C. Morales, Moulson, M., Movchan, S., Munday, D. J., Napolitano, M., Nappi, A., Neuhofer, G., Norton, A., Numao, T., Obraztsov, V., Palladino, V., Patel, M., Pepe, M., Peters, A., Petrucci, F., Petrucci, M. C., Peyaud, B., Piandani, R., Piccini, M., Pierazzini, G., Polenkevich, I., Popov, I., Potrebenikov, Yu., Raggi, M., Renk, B., Retière, F., Riedler, P., Romano, A., Rubin, P., Ruggiero, G., Salamon, A., Saracino, G., Savrié, M., Scarpa, M., Semenov, V., Sergi, A., Serra, M., Shieh, M., Shkarovskiy, S., Slater, M. W., Sozzi, M., Spadaro, T., Stoynev, S., Swallow, E., Szleper, M., Valdata-Nappi, M., Valente, P., Vallage, B., Velasco, M., Veltri, M., Venditti, S., Wache, M., Wahl, H., Walker, A., Wanke, R., Widhalm, L., Winhart, A., Winston, R., Wood, M. D., Wotton, S. A., Yushchenko, O., Zinchenko, A., and Ziolkowski, M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The NA48/2 Collaboration at CERN has accumulated unprecedented statistics of rare kaon decays in the Ke4 modes: Ke4(+-) ($K^\pm \to \pi^+ \pi^- e^\pm \nu$) and Ke4(00) ($K^\pm \to \pi^0 \pi^0 e^\pm \nu$) with nearly one percent background contamination. The detailed study of form factors and branching rates, based on these data, has been completed recently. The results brings new inputs to low energy strong interactions description and tests of Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) and lattice QCD calculations. In particular, new data support the ChPT prediction for a cusp in the $\pi^0\pi^0$ invariant mass spectrum at the two charged pions threshold for Ke4(00) decay. New final results from an analysis of about 400 $K^\pm \to \pi^\pm \gamma \gamma$ rare decay candidates collected by the NA48/2 and NA62 experiments at CERN during low intensity runs with minimum bias trigger configurations are presented. The results include a model-independent decay rate measurement and fits to ChPT description., Comment: XIIth International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons 2014, Mainz, Germany

Published
2016

5. Prospects for $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar{ \nu }$ at CERN in NA62

Author

Rinella, G. Aglieri, Aliberti, R., Ambrosino, F., Angelucci, B., Antonelli, A., Anzivino, G., Arcidiacono, R., Azhinenko, I., Balev, S., Bendotti, J., Biagioni, A., Biino, C., Bizzeti, A., Blazek, T., Blik, A., Bloch-Devaux, B., Bolotov, V., Bonaiuto, V., Bragadireanu, M., Britton, D., Britvich, G., Brook, N., Bucci, F., Buescher, V., Butin, F., Capitolo, E., Capoccia, C., Capussela, T., Carassiti, V., Cartiglia, N., Cassese, A., Catinaccio, A., Cecchetti, A., Ceccucci, A., Cenci, P., Cerny, V., Cerri, C., Chikilev, O., Ciaranfi, R., Collazuol, G., Cooke, P., Cooper, P., Corradi, G., Gil, E. Cortina, Costantini, F., Ramusino, A. Cotta, Coward, D., D'Agostini, G., Dainton, J., Dalpiaz, P., Danielsson, H., Degrange, J., De Simone, N., Di Filippo, D., Di Lella, L., Dixon, N., Doble, N., Duk, V., Elsha, V., Engelfried, J., Enik, T., Falaleev, V., Fantechi, R., Federici, L., Fiorini, M., Fry, J., Fucci, A., Fulton, L., Gallorini, S., Gatignon, L., Gianoli, A., Giudici, S., Glonti, L., Martins, A. Goncalves, Gonnella, F., Goudzovski, E., Guida, R., Gushchin, E., Hahn, F., Hallgren, B., Heath, H., Herman, F., Hutchcroft, D., Iacopini, E., Jamet, O., Jarron, P., Kampf, K., Kaplon, J., Karjavin, V., Kekelidze, V., Kholodenko, S., Khoriauli, G., Khudyakov, A., Kiryushin, Yu., Kleinknecht, K., Kluge, A., Koval, M., Kozhuharov, V., Krivda, M., Kudenko, Y., Kunze, J., Lamanna, G., Lazzeroni, C., Leitner, R., Lenci, R., Lenti, M., Leonardi, E., Lichard, P., Lietava, R., Litov, L., Lomidze, D., Lonardo, A., Lurkin, N., Madigozhin, D., Maire, G., Makarov, A., Mannelli, I., Mannocchi, G., Mapelli, A., Marchetto, F., Massarotti, P., Massri, K., Matak, P., Mazza, G., Menichetti, E., Mirra, M., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Morant, J., Morel, M., Moulson, M., Movchan, S., Munday, D., Napolitano, M., Newson, F., Norton, A., Noy, M., Nuessle, G., Obraztsov, V., Padolski, S., Page, R., Palladino, V., Pardons, A., Pedreschi, E., Pepe, M., Gomez, F. Perez, Perrin-Terrin, M., Petrov, P., Petrucci, F., Piandani, R., Piccini, M., Pietreanu, D., Pinzino, J., Pivanti, M., Polenkevich, I., Popov, I., Potrebenikov, Yu., Protopopescu, D., Raffaelli, F., Raggi, M., Riedler, P., Romano, A., Rubin, P., Ruggiero, G., Russo, V., Ryjov, V., Salamon, A., Salina, G., Samsonov, V., Santovetti, E., Saracino, G., Sargeni, F., Schifano, S., Semenov, V., Sergi, A., Serra, M., Shkarovskiy, S., Sotnikov, A., Sougonyaev, V., Sozzi, M., Spadaro, T., Spinella, F., Staley, R., Statera, M., Sutcliffe, P., Szilasi, N., Tagnani, D., Valdata-Nappi, M., Valente, P., Vasile, M., Vassilieva, V., Velghe, B., Veltri, M., Venditti, S., Vormstein, M., Wahl, H., Wanke, R., Wertelaers, P., Winhart, A., Winston, R., Wrona, B., Yushchenko, O., Zamkovsky, M., and Zinchenko, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The NA62 experiment will begin taking data in 2015. Its primary purpose is a 10% measurement of the branching ratio of the ultrarare kaon decay $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar{ \nu }$, using the decay in flight of kaons in an unseparated beam with momentum 75 GeV/c.The detector and analysis technique are described here., Comment: 8 pages for proceedings of 50 Years of CPV

Published
2014

6. Recent NA48/2 and NA62 results

Author

Ambrosino, F., Antonelli, A., Anzivino, G., Arcidiacono, R., Baldini, W., Balev, S., Batley, J. R., Behler, M., Bifani, S., Biino, C., Bizzeti, A., Bloch-Devaux, B., Bocquet, G., Bolotov, V., Bucci, F., Cabibbo, N., Calvetti, M., Cartiglia, N., Ceccucci, A., Cenci, P., Cerri, C., Cheshkov, C., Cheze, J. B., Clemencic, M., Collazuol, G., Costantini, F., Ramusino, A. Cotta, Coward, D., Cundy, D., Dabrowski, A., D'Agostini, G., Dalpiaz, P., Damiani, C., Danielsson, H., De Beer, M., Dellacasa, G., Derre, J., Dibon, H., Di Filippo, D., DiLella, L., Doble, N., Duk, V., Engelfried, J., Eppard, K., Falaleev, V., Fantechi, R., Fidecaro, M., Fiorini, L., Fiorini, M., Martin, T. Fonseca, Frabetti, P. L., Fucci, A., Gallorini, S., Gatignon, L., Gersabeck, E., Gianoli, A., Giudici, S., Gonidec, A., Goudzovski, E., Lopez, S. Goy, Gushchin, E., Hallgren, B., Hita-Hochgesand, M., Holder, M., Hristov, P., Iacopini, E., Imbergamo, E., Jeitler, M., Kalmus, G., Kekelidze, V., Kleinknecht, K., Kozhuharov, V., Kubischta, W., Kurshetsov, V., Lamanna, G., Lazzeroni, C., Lenti, M., Leonardi, E., Litov, L., Madigozhin, D., Maier, A., Mannelli, I., Marchetto, F., Marel, G., Markytan, M., Marouelli, P., Martini, M., Masetti, L., Massarotti, P., Mazzucato, E., Michetti, A., Mikulec, I., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Monnier, E., Moosbrugger, U., Morales, C. Morales, Moulson, M., Movchan, S., Munday, D. J., Napolitano, M., Nappi, A., Neuhofer, G., Norton, A., Numao, T., Obraztsov, V., Palladino, V., Patel, M., Pepe, M., Peters, A., Petrucci, F., Petrucci, M. C., Peyaud, B., Piandani, R., Piccini, M., Pierazzini, G., Polenkevich, I., Popov, I., Potrebenikov, Yu., Raggi, M., Renk, B., Retiere, F., Riedler, P., Romano, A., Rubin, P., Ruggiero, G., Salamon, A., Saracino, G., Savrie, M., Scarpa, M., Semenov, V., Sergi, A., Serra, M., Shieh, M., Shkarovskiy, S., Slater, M. W., Sozzi, M., Spadaro, T., Stoynev, S., Swallow, E., Szleper, M., Valdata-Nappi, M., Valente, P., Vallage, B., Velasco, M., Veltri, M., Venditti, S., Wache, M., Wahl, H., Walker, A., Wanke, R., Widhalm, L., Winhart, A., Winston, R., Wood, M. D., Wotton, S. A., Yushchenko, O., Zinchenko, A., and Ziolkowski, M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The NA48/2 Collaboration at CERN has accumulated and analysed unprecedented statistics of rare kaon decays in the $K_{e4}$ modes: $K_{e4}(+-)$ ($K^\pm \to \pi^+ \pi^- e^\pm \nu$) and $K_{e4}(00)$ ($K^\pm \to \pi^0 \pi^0 e^\pm \nu$) with nearly one percent background contamination. It leads to the improved measurement of branching fractions and detailed form factor studies. New final results from the analysis of 381 $K^\pm \to \pi^\pm \gamma \gamma$ rare decay candidates collected by the NA48/2 and NA62 experiments at CERN are presented. The results include a decay rate measurement and fits to Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) description., Comment: Prepared for the Proceedings of "Moriond QCD and High Energy Interactions. March 22-29 2014." conference

Published
2014

7. The large-angle photon veto system for the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS

Author

Ambrosino, F., Angelucci, B., Antonelli, A., Costantini, F., D'Agostini, G., Di Filippo, D., Fantechi, R., Gallorini, S., Giudici, S., Leonardi, E., Mannelli, I., Massarotti, P., Moulson, M., Napolitano, M., Palladino, V., Rafaelli, F., Raggi, M., Saracino, G., Serra, M., Spadaro, T., Valente, P., and Venditti, S.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The branching ratio (BR) for the decay K^+ \to \pi^+\nu\bar{\nu} is a sensitive probe for new physics. The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS will measure this BR to within about 10%. To reject the background from dominant kaon decays with final state photons, the large-angle photon vetoes (LAVs) must detect photons of energy as low as 200 MeV with an inefficiency of less than 10^{-4}. The LAV detectors make use of lead glass blocks recycled from the OPAL electromagnetic calorimeter barrel. We describe the mechanical design and challenges faced during construction, the characterization of the lead glass blocks and solutions adopted for monitoring their performance, and the development of front-end electronics to allow simultaneous time and energy measurements over an extended dynamic range using the time over-threshold technique. Our results are based on test-beam data and are reproduced by a detailed Monte Carlo simulation that includes the readout chain., Comment: LaTeX, 7 pages, 11 attached .eps files. Prepared for the Proceedings of the XVth International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics (Calor 2012), Santa Fe, NM, 4-8 June 2012

Published
2012
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8. The NA62 LAV front-end electronics

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Antonelli, A., Corradi, G., Moulson, M., Paglia, C., Raggi, M., Spadaro, T., Tagnani, D., Ambrosino, F., Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Napolitano, M., Saracino, G., Angelucci, B., Costantini, F., Fantechi, R., Gallorini, S., Giudici, S., Mannelli, I., Raffaelli, F., Venditti, S., D'Agostini, G., Leonardi, E., Palladino, V., Serra, M., and Valente, P.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The branching ratio for the decay $K^+ \to \pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$ is sensitive to new physics; the NA62 experiment will measure it to within about 10%. To reject the dominant background from channels with final state photons, the large-angle vetoes (LAVs) must detect particles with better than 1 ns time resolution and 10% energy resolution over a very large energy range. Our custom readout board uses a time-over-threshold discriminator coupled to a TDC as a straightforward solution to satisfy these requirements. A prototype of the readout system was extensively tested together with the ANTI-A2 large angle veto module at CERN in summer 2010., Comment: prepared for the TWEPP 2011 conference proceedings

Published
2011
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9. The Large-Angle Photon Veto System for the NA62 Experiment at CERN

Author

Ambrosino, F., Angelucci, B., Antonelli, A., Costantini, F., D'Agostini, G., Di Filippo, D., Fantechi, R., Gallorini, S., Giudici, S., Leonardi, E., Mannelli, I., Massarotti, P., Moulson, M., Napolitano, M., Palladino, V., Rafaelli, F., Raggi, M., Saracino, G., Serra, M., Spadaro, T., Valente, P., and Venditti, S.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The branching ratio (BR) for the decay K^+ \rightarrow \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu} is a sensitive probe for new physics. The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS will measure this BR to within about 10%. To reject the dominant background from channels with final state photons, the large-angle vetoes (LAVs) must detect photons of energy as low as 200 MeV with an inefficiency of less than 10^-4, as well as provide energy and time measurements with resolutions of 10% and 1 ns for 1 GeV photons. The LAV detectors make creative reuse of lead glass blocks recycled from the OPAL electromagnetic calorimeter barrel. We describe the mechanical design and challenges faced during construction, the characterization of the lead glass blocks and solutions adopted for monitoring their performance, and the development of front-end electronics to allow simultaneous time and energy measurements over an extended dynamic range using the time-over-threshold technique. Our results are based on test-beam data and are reproduced by a detailed Monte Carlo simulation that includes the readout chain., Comment: 8 pages, 13 figures. Prepared for the Conference Record of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Valencia, Spain, October 2011

Published
2011

10. Empirical parameterization of the K+- -> pi+- pi0 pi0 decay Dalitz plot

Author

Batley, J. R., Culling, A. J., Kalmus, G., Lazzeroni, C., Munday, D. J., Slater, M. W., Wotton, S. A., Arcidiacono, R., Bocquet, G., Cabibbo, N., Ceccucci, A., Cundy, D., Falaleev, V., Fidecaro, M., Gatignon, L., Gonidec, A., Kubischta, W., Norton, A., Maier, A., Patel, M., Peters, A., Balev, S., Frabetti, P. L., Goudzovski, E., Hristov, P., Kekelidze, V., Kozhuharov, V., Litov, L., Madigozhin, D., Marinova, E., Molokanova, N., Polenkevich, I., Potrebenikov, Yu., Stoynev, S., Zinchenko, A., Monnier, E., Swallow, E., Winston, R., Rubin, P., Walker, A., Baldini, W., Ramusino, A. Cotta, Dalpiaz, P., Damiani, C., Fiorini, M., Gianoli, A., Martini, M., Petrucci, F., Savrié, M., Scarpa, M., Wahl, H., Calvetti, M., Iacopini, E., Ruggiero, G., Bizzeti, A., Lenti, M., Veltri, M., Behler, M., Eppard, K., Kleinknecht, K., Marouelli, P., Masetti, L., Moosbrugger, U., Morales, C. Morales, Renk, B., Wache, M., Wanke, R., Winhart, A., Coward, D., Dabrowski, A., Martin, T. Fonseca, Shieh, M., Szleper, M., Velasco, M., Wood, M. D., Anzivino, G., Imbergamo, E., Nappi, A., Piccini, M., Raggi, M., Valdata-Nappi, M., Cenci, P., Pepe, M., Petrucci, M. C., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Collazuol, G., DiLella, L., Lamanna, G., Mannelli, I., Michetti, A., Costantini, F., Doble, N., Fiorini, L., Giudici, S., Pierazzini, G., Sozzi, M., Venditti, S., Bloch-Devaux, B., Cheshkov, C., Chèze, J. B., De Beer, M., Derré, J., Marel, G., Mazzucato, E., Peyaud, B., Vallage, B., Holder, M., Ziolkowski, M., Biino, C., Cartiglia, N., Marchetto, F., Bifani, S., Clemencic, M., Lopez, S. Goy, Dibon, H., Jeitler, M., Markytan, M., Mikulec, I., Neuhofer, G., and Widhalm, L.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

As first observed by the NA48/2 experiment at the CERN SPS, the $\p0p0$ invariant mass (M00) distribution from $\kcnn$ decay shows a cusp-like anomaly at M00=2m+, where m+ is the charged pion mass. An analysis to extract the pi pi scattering lengths in the isospin I=0 and I=2 states, a0 and a2, respectively, has been recently reported. In the present work the Dalitz plot of this decay is fitted to a new empirical parameterization suitable for practical purposes, such as Monte Carlo simulations of K+- -> pi+- pi0 pi0 decays., Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures.

Published
2010
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11. A prototype large-angle photon veto detector for the P326 experiment at CERN

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Ambrosino, F., Antonelli, A., Capitolo, E., Cooper, P. S., Fantechi, R., Iannotti, L., Lamanna, G., Leonardi, E., Moulson, M., Napolitano, M., Palladino, V., Raggi, M., Romano, A., Saracino, G., Serra, M., Spadaro, T., Valente, P., and Venditti, S.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The P326 experiment at the CERN SPS has been proposed with the purpose of measuring the branching ratio for the decay K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu} to within 10%. The photon veto system must provide a rejection factor of 10^8 for \pi^0 decays. We have explored two designs for the large-angle veto detectors, one based on scintillating tiles and the other using scintillating fibers. We have constructed a prototype module based on the fiber solution and evaluated its performance using low-energy electron beams from the Frascati Beam-Test Facility. For comparison, we have also tested a tile prototype constructed for the CKM experiment, as well as lead-glass modules from the OPAL electromagnetic barrel calorimeter. We present results on the linearity, energy resolution, and time resolution obtained with the fiber prototype, and compare the detection efficiency for electrons obtained with all three instruments., Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables. Presented at the 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Honolulu HI, USA, 28 October - 3 November 2007

Published
2007
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