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1. New physics searches at kaon and hyperon factories

Author: Goudzovski, Evgueni, Redigolo, Diego, Tobioka, Kohsaku, Zupan, Jure, Alonso-Álvarez, Gonzalo, Alves, Daniele SM, Bansal, Saurabh, Bauer, Martin, Brod, Joachim, Chobanova, Veronika, D’Ambrosio, Giancarlo, Datta, Alakabha, Dery, Avital, Dettori, Francesco, Dobrescu, Bogdan A, Döbrich, Babette, Egana-Ugrinovic, Daniel, Elor, Gilly, Escudero, Miguel, Fabbrichesi, Marco, Fornal, Bartosz, Fox, Patrick J, Gabrielli, Emidio, Geng, Li-Sheng, Gligorov, Vladimir V, Gorbahn, Martin, Gori, Stefania, Grinstein, Benjamín, Grossman, Yuval, Guadagnoli, Diego, Homiller, Samuel, Hostert, Matheus, Kelly, Kevin J, Kitahara, Teppei, Knapen, Simon, Krnjaic, Gordan, Kupsc, Andrzej, Kvedaraitė, Sandra, Lanfranchi, Gaia, Marfatia, Danny, Camalich, Jorge Martin, Santos, Diego Martínez, Massri, Karim, Meade, Patrick, Moulson, Matthew, Nanjo, Hajime, Neubert, Matthias, Pospelov, Maxim, Renner, Sophie, Schacht, Stefan, Schnubel, Marvin, Shi, Rui-Xiang, Shuve, Brian, Spadaro, Tommaso, Soreq, Yotam, Stamou, Emmanuel, Sumensari, Olcyr, Tammaro, Michele, Terol-Calvo, Jorge, Thamm, Andrea, Tung, Yu-Chen, Wang, Dayong, Yamamoto, Kei, and Ziegler, Robert
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, kaon, hyperon, beyond the standard model, new light particles, KOTO experiment, NA62 experiment, LHCb experiment, Mathematical Sciences, General Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: Rare meson decays are among the most sensitive probes of both heavy and light new physics. Among them, new physics searches using kaons benefit from their small total decay widths and the availability of very large datasets. On the other hand, useful complementary information is provided by hyperon decay measurements. We summarize the relevant phenomenological models and the status of the searches in a comprehensive list of kaon and hyperon decay channels. We identify new search strategies for under-explored signatures, and demonstrate that the improved sensitivities from current and next-generation experiments could lead to a qualitative leap in the exploration of light dark sectors.
Published: 2023

2. Single-muon rate reduction for beam dump operation of the K12 beam line at CERN.

Author: Rosenthal, M., Banerjee, D., Bernhard, J., Brugger, M., Charitonidis, N., van Dijk, M., Döbrich, B., Gatignon, L., Gerbershagen, A., Montbarbon, E., Rae, B., and Spadaro, T.
Subjects: *HYPOTHETICAL particles, *MUONS, *PARTICLE interactions, *HADRON decay, *SOFTWARE frameworks, *PROTON beams
Abstract: The Physics Beyond Colliders study investigates the feasibility of future projects and experiments using CERN facilities. In the scope of this study, a future operation of the NA62 experiment using the existing K12 beam line operated in beam dump mode is discussed. Such a setup allows for a search for dark sector particles, e.g. heavy neutral leptons, dark photons and axions. Production of these hypothetical particles requires the 400GeV/c proton beam extracted from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to be dumped on a massive dump collimator located in the first part of the K12 beam line. The decay of these dark sector particles, for example, into muons could be detected by the NA62 experimental setup. However, muons created in particle interactions with material and from in-flight decays of secondary hadrons pose a critical background for this kind of experiment. Magnetic sweeping serves as an efficient tool for reducing this background. This paper discusses the simulation studies conducted with the software framework G4beamline to reduce the expected single-muon rate for this experiment. The required beam line modifications, in particular the removal of the beryllium target and repositioning of the dump, have been implemented into this model. A comparison of simulated muon distributions and spectra available experimental data, already taken in test runs, has been made in order to validate the beam line simulation. Finally, additional beam line modifications to further suppress the muon background are elaborated upon. These studies show a potential further reduction of a factor four of the total single-muon rate relative to the nominal setup over the full momentum range, and up to a factor twenty considering only muons with momenta p > 1 5 G e V / c. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published: 2019
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3. The integrated low-level trigger and readout system of the CERN NA62 experiment

Author: Mattia Barbanera, V. Cerny, F. Spinella, Piero Vicini, Roberto Ammendola, Alessandro Lonardo, B. Angelucci, R. Fantechi, Roberto Piandani, G. Lamanna, A. Papi, P. Petrov, Marian Krivda, Mauro Raggi, M. Sozzi, S. Venditti, Francesco Gonnella, Andrea Biagioni, J. Pinzino, M. Lupi, M. Koval, B. Checcucci, D. Soldi, Luca Pontisso, C. J. Parkinson, and E. Pedreschi
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High-energy physics, Data acquisition, 0103 physical sciences, data acquisition, digital electronics, high-energy physics, trigger, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, 010306 general physics, physics.ins-det, Instrumentation, Digital electronics, Trigger, Physics, Flexibility (engineering), Large Hadron Collider, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Scale (chemistry), Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), business, Particle Physics - Experiment, Computer hardware, Data reduction
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

4. Search for a feebly interacting particle X in the decay K+ → π+X

Author: L. Peruzzo, B. Bloch-Devaux, E. Imbergamo, V. Cerny, R. Fantechi, L. Di Lella, D. Emelyanov, Z. Kucerova, S. Padolski, Antonino Sergi, Yu. Potrebenikov, A. Salamon, Paul Laycock, Milena Misheva, A. Antonelli, D. Soldi, V. Palladino, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, K. Massri, R. W. L. Jones, M. Perrin-Terrin, D. Coward, A. Fucci, D. T. Madigozhin, L. Fulton, F. Duval, F. Brizioli, G. Khoriauli, Tommaso Spadaro, A P Ostankov, Fabrizio Petrucci, Rainer Wanke, M. Corvino, Andrea Biagioni, R. Volpe, T. Bache, B. Wrona, G. Lamanna, E. Menichetti, M. Fiorini, A. Baeva, H. D. Wahl, A. Sturgess, J. B. Dainton, Evgueni Goudzovski, J. Fu, Mauro Raggi, G. Lanfranchi, P. F. Dalpiaz, R. Marchevski, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, Leander Litov, M. Koval, J. Swallow, E. Cortina Gil, M. Vormstein, M. Piccini, Jürgen Engelfried, N. Doble, Vladimir Kekelidze, Matteo Lupi, V. Fascianelli, P. Rubin, Yu.A. Kudenko, H. O. Danielsson, Jacopo Pinzino, G. Lehmann Miotto, V. Obraztsov, C. Graham, V. Falaleev, A. Conovaloff, T. Numao, Paolo Valente, D. Protopopescu, A. Mefodev, E. Minucci, N. A. Molokanova, Babette Döbrich, Luca Pontisso, E. Iacopini, Nicolas Lurkin, M. B. Brunetti, V. E. Semenov, I. Mannelli, M. Napolitano, C. J. Parkinson, R. Piandani, L. Federici, V. Kozhuharov, N. Estrada-Tristan, M. Zamkovsky, Dave Britton, Georgi P. Georgiev, Viacheslav Duk, S. Martellotti, J. Jerhot, P. Petrov, B. Angelucci, L. Iacobuzio, E. B. Holzer, V. Sugonyaev, A. Ceccucci, Roberto Ammendola, A. M. Bragadireanu, Andrea Bizzeti, C. Cerri, A. Korotkova, Paolo Massarotti, M. Moulson, S. Trilov, Johannes Bernhard, V. Kurochka, A. Parenti, F. Spinella, D. Baigarashev, Claudio Santoni, A. Filippi, A. I. Zinchenko, Helen F Heath, R. Aliberti, R. Lollini, A. Norton, S. Schuchmann, E. Lari, Karol Kampf, A. Khotyantsev, Ernesto Migliore, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, R. Page, T. Husek, J. Kunze, F. Hahn, S. Ghinescu, T. Capussela, A. Gianoli, B. Velghe, J. Carmignani, Francesco Gonnella, Tomas Blazek, A. Cotta Ramusino, D. Lomidze, D. E. Hutchcroft, Roberto Guida, O. Yushchenko, V. Kurshetsov, S. Kholodenko, B. Checcucci, P. Cooper, B. Jenninger, G. Latino, J. R. Fry, F. Bucci, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, P. Cenci, L. Bician, Roberta Arcidiacono, E. Gushchin, E. Pedreschi, M. Mirra, Matthew Noy, G. D'Agostini, M. Pepe, O. Hutanu, M. Lenti, F. Newson, S. Shkarovskiy, F. Marchetto, Piero Vicini, P. Lichard, A. Kleimenova, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, Emilio Leonardi, I. Polenkevich, M. Medvedeva, Giuseppe Ruggiero, F. Costantini, M. Boretto, M. Sozzi, Ilaria Neri, P. Lubrano, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, Sergei Fedotov, N. De Simone, Vladimir Ryjov, G. Saracino, A. Mapelli, G. Anzivino, S. Giudici, E. Maurice, Alessandro Lonardo, Cristina Biino, Mattia Barbanera, Cortina Gil, E., Kleimenova, A., Minucci, E., Padolski, S., Petrov, P., Shaikhiev, A., Volpe, R., Numao, T., Velghe, B., Bryman, D., Fu, J., Husek, T., Jerhot, J., Kampf, K., Zamkovsky, M., Aliberti, R., Khoriauli, G., Kunze, J., Lomidze, D., Marchevski, R., Peruzzo, L., Vormstein, M., Wanke, R., Dalpiaz, P., Fiorini, M., Neri, I., Norton, A., Petrucci, F., Wahl, H., Cotta Ramusino, A., Gianoli, A., Iacopini, E., Latino, G., Lenti, M., Parenti, A., Bizzeti, A., Bucci, F., Antonelli, A., Georgiev, G., Kozhuharov, V., Lanfranchi, G., Martellotti, S., Moulson, M., Spadaro, T., Ambrosino, F., Capussela, T., Corvino, M., Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Mirra, M., Napolitano, M., Saracino, G., Anzivino, G., Brizioli, F., Imbergamo, E., Lollini, R., Piandani, R., Santoni, C., Barbanera, M., Cenci, P., Checcucci, B., Lubrano, P., Lupi, M., Pepe, M., Piccini, M., Costantini, F., Di Lella, L., Doble, N., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Lamanna, G., Lari, E., Pedreschi, E., Sozzi, M., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Pontisso, L., Spinella, F., Mannelli, I., D???agostini, G., Raggi, M., Biagioni, A., Leonardi, E., Lonardo, A., Valente, P., Vicini, P., Ammendola, R., Bonaiuto, V., Fucci, A., Salamon, A., Sargeni, F., Arcidiacono, R., Bloch-Devaux, B., Boretto, M., Menichetti, E., Migliore, E., Soldi, D., Biino, C., Filippi, A., Marchetto, F., Engelfried, J., Estrada-Tristan, N., Bragadireanu, A. M., Ghinescu, S. A., Hutanu, O. E., Baeva, A., Baigarashev, D., Emelyanov, D., Enik, T., Falaleev, V., Kekelidze, V., Korotkova, A., Litov, L., Madigozhin, D., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Movchan, S., Polenkevich, I., Potrebenikov, Yu., Shkarovskiy, S., Zinchenko, A., Fedotov, S., Gushchin, E., Khotyantsev, A., Kudenko, Y., Kurochka, V., Medvedeva, M., Mefodev, A., Kholodenko, S., Kurshetsov, V., Obraztsov, V., Ostankov, A., Semenov, V., Sugonyaev, V., Yushchenko, O., Bician, L., Blazek, T., Cerny, V., Kucerova, Z., Bernhard, J., Ceccucci, A., Danielsson, H., De Simone, N., Duval, F., D??brich, B., Federici, L., Gamberini, E., Gatignon, L., Guida, R., Hahn, F., Holzer, E. B., Jenninger, B., Koval, M., Laycock, P., Lehmann Miotto, G., Lichard, P., Mapelli, A., Massri, K., Noy, M., Palladino, V., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pinzino, J., Ryjov, V., Schuchmann, S., Venditti, S., Bache, T., Brunetti, M. B., Duk, V., Fascianelli, V., Fry, J. R., Gonnella, F., Goudzovski, E., Iacobuzio, L., Lazzeroni, C., Lurkin, N., Newson, F., Parkinson, C., Romano, A., Sergi, A., Sturgess, A., Swallow, J., Heath, H., Page, R., Trilov, S., Angelucci, B., Britton, D., Graham, C., Protopopescu, D., Carmignani, J., Dainton, J. B., Jones, R. W. L., Ruggiero, G., Fulton, L., Hutchcroft, D., Maurice, E., Wrona, B., Conovaloff, A., Cooper, P., Coward, D., and Rubin, P.
Subjects: Exotics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Dark matter, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Physics, Range (particle radiation), Large Hadron Collider, kaon decays, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Settore FIS/04, Fixed target experiments, Beyond Standard Model, lcsh:QC770-798, Particle, Atomic physics, Particle Physics - Experiment, Order of magnitude
Abstract: A search for the $K^+ \to \pi^+ X$ decay, where $X$ is a long-lived feebly interacting particle, is performed through an interpretation of the $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar\nu$ analysis of data collected in 2017 by the NA62 experiment at CERN. Two ranges of $X$ masses, $0-110$ MeV/$c^2$ and $154-260$ MeV/$c^2$, and lifetimes above 100 ps are considered. The limits set on the branching ratio, BR($K^+ \to \pi^+ X$), are competitive with previously reported searches in the first mass range, and improve on current limits in the second mass range by more than an order of magnitude. A search for the K$^{+}$ → π$^{+}$X decay, where X is a long-lived feebly interacting particle, is performed through an interpretation of the K$^{+}$ → $ {\pi}^{+}\nu \overline{\nu} $ analysis of data collected in 2017 by the NA62 experiment at CERN. Two ranges of X masses, 0–110 MeV/c$^{2}$ and 154–260 MeV/c$^{2}$, and lifetimes above 100 ps are considered. The limits set on the branching ratio, BR(K$^{+}$ → π$^{+}$X), are competitive with previously reported searches in the first mass range, and improve on current limits in the second mass range by more than an order of magnitude. A search for the $K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+}X$ decay, where $X$ is a long-lived feebly interacting particle, is performed through an interpretation of the $K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ analysis of data collected in 2017 by the NA62 experiment at CERN. Two ranges of $X$ masses, $0$-$110\,\text{MeV}/c^{2}$ and $154$-$260\,\text{MeV}/c^{2}$, and lifetimes above $100\,\text{ps}$ are considered. The limits set on the branching ratio, $\text{BR}(K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+}X)$, are competitive with previously reported searches in the first mass range, and improve on current limits in the second mass range by more than an order of magnitude.
Published: 2021

5. Search for π0 decays to invisible particles

Author: V. Palladino, A. Fucci, M. Boretto, J. Fu, L. Gatignon, E. Cortina Gil, Mattia Barbanera, S. Martellotti, Paul Laycock, B. Angelucci, L. Iacobuzio, E. B. Holzer, M. Sozzi, Mauro Piccini, M. Corvino, T. Bache, Paolo Massarotti, A. Mefodev, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, E. Lari, J. Swallow, H. O. Danielsson, I. Mannelli, P. Rubin, Ilaria Neri, M. Vormstein, N. Estrada-Tristan, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, L. Peruzzo, B. Bloch-Devaux, F. Hahn, D. E. Hutchcroft, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, O. Yushchenko, Sergei Fedotov, Claudio Santoni, Luca Pontisso, B. Velghe, J. Carmignani, A. Filippi, E. Iacopini, A. I. Zinchenko, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, Francesco Gonnella, Tomas Blazek, S. Ghinescu, P. Lubrano, Vladimir Ryjov, L. Federici, G. Lanfranchi, A. Conovaloff, A. Cotta Ramusino, T. Capussela, V. Cerny, A. Gianoli, V. Kurshetsov, V. Obraztsov, A. Mapelli, L. Di Lella, S. Kholodenko, D. Protopopescu, Roberto Guida, Nicolas Lurkin, M. B. Brunetti, Evgueni Goudzovski, Georgi P. Georgiev, Viacheslav Duk, R. Fantechi, V. E. Semenov, S. Giudici, S. Padolski, E. Imbergamo, Rainer Wanke, M. Perrin-Terrin, Johannes Bernhard, Z. Kucerova, Tommaso Spadaro, Roberto Ammendola, A. Parenti, P. Cooper, Vladimir Kekelidze, N. De Simone, F. Spinella, D. T. Madigozhin, D. Soldi, R. Lollini, A. Korotkova, B. Jenninger, J. R. Fry, Matteo Lupi, Ernesto Migliore, K. Massri, A. Salamon, E. Maurice, P. F. Dalpiaz, R. Marchevski, B. Wrona, Andrea Biagioni, R. Volpe, Alessandro Lonardo, E. Gamberini, F. Brizioli, M. Fiorini, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, P. Petrov, L. Fulton, F. Duval, V. Sugonyaev, E. Minucci, M. Lenti, Mauro Raggi, A. Khotyantsev, F. Bucci, Milena Misheva, R. Aliberti, A. Norton, A. Antonelli, T. Husek, G. Saracino, A. Baeva, J. Jerhot, Cristina Biino, Yu.A. Kudenko, Jürgen Engelfried, N. Doble, G. Anzivino, G. Lamanna, J. Kunze, V. Fascianelli, A. Kleimenova, Antonino Sergi, A. Sturgess, J. B. Dainton, G. Lehmann Miotto, C. Graham, V. Falaleev, D. Emelyanov, Babette Döbrich, C. J. Parkinson, V. Kozhuharov, M. Zamkovsky, R. W. L. Jones, Helen F Heath, Yu. Potrebenikov, Giuseppe Latino, D. Coward, R. Page, C. Cerri, S. Trilov, F. Newson, S. Shkarovskiy, G. Khoriauli, M. Medvedeva, Giuseppe Ruggiero, D. Lomidze, E. Menichetti, F. Costantini, Emilio Leonardi, I. Polenkevich, Jacopo Pinzino, L. Bician, Roberta Arcidiacono, E. Gushchin, P. Cenci, E. Pedreschi, M. Mirra, A. M. Bragadireanu, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, M. Moulson, D. Baigarashev, Karol Kampf, Fabrizio Petrucci, Leander Litov, A P Ostankov, Matthew Noy, M. Koval, H. D. Wahl, G. D'Agostini, N. A. Molokanova, M. Pepe, M. Napolitano, O. Hutanu, F. Marchetto, Piero Vicini, P. Lichard, T. Numao, Paolo Valente, R. Piandani, Dave Britton, A. Ceccucci, B. Checcucci, Andrea Bizzeti, V. Kurochka, S. Schuchmann, Cortina Gil, E., Kleimenova, A., Minucci, E., Padolski, S., Petrov, P., Shaikhiev, A., Volpe, R., Numao, T., Velghe, B., Bryman, D., Fu, J., Husek, T., Jerhot, J., Kampf, K., Zamkovsky, M., Aliberti, R., Khoriauli, G., Kunze, J., Lomidze, D., Marchevski, R., Peruzzo, L., Vormstein, M., Wanke, R., Dalpiaz, P., Fiorini, M., Neri, I., Norton, A., Petrucci, F., Wahl, H., Cotta Ramusino, A., Gianoli, A., Iacopini, E., Latino, G., Lenti, M., Parenti, A., Bizzeti, A., Bucci, F., Antonelli, A., Georgiev, G., Kozhuharov, V., Lanfranchi, G., Martellotti, S., Moulson, M., Spadaro, T., Ambrosino, F., Capussela, T., Corvino, M., Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Mirra, M., Napolitano, M., Saracino, G., Anzivino, G., Brizioli, F., Imbergamo, E., Lollini, R., Piandani, R., Santoni, C., Barbanera, M., Cenci, P., Checcucci, B., Lubrano, P., Lupi, M., Pepe, M., Piccini, M., Costantini, F., Di Lella, L., Doble, N., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Lamanna, G., Lari, E., Pedreschi, E., Sozzi, M., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Pontisso, L., Spinella, F., Mannelli, I., D???agostini, G., Raggi, M., Biagioni, A., Leonardi, E., Lonardo, A., Valente, P., Vicini, P., Ammendola, R., Bonaiuto, V., Fucci, A., Salamon, A., Sargeni, F., Arcidiacono, R., Bloch-Devaux, B., Boretto, M., Menichetti, E., Migliore, E., Soldi, D., Biino, C., Filippi, A., Marchetto, F., Engelfried, J., Estrada-Tristan, N., Bragadireanu, A. M., Ghinescu, S. A., Hutanu, O. E., Baeva, A., Baigarashev, D., Emelyanov, D., Enik, T., Falaleev, V., Kekelidze, V., Korotkova, A., Litov, L., Madigozhin, D., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Movchan, S., Polenkevich, I., Potrebenikov, Y., Shkarovskiy, S., Zinchenko, A., Fedotov, S., Gushchin, E., Khotyantsev, A., Kudenko, Y., Kurochka, V., Medvedeva, M., Mefodev, A., Kholodenko, S., Kurshetsov, V., Obraztsov, V., Ostankov, A., Semenov, V., Sugonyaev, V., Yushchenko, O., Bician, L., Blazek, T., Cerny, V., Kucerova, Z., Bernhard, J., Ceccucci, A., Danielsson, H., De Simone, N., Duval, F., D??brich, B., Federici, L., Gamberini, E., Gatignon, L., Guida, R., Hahn, F., Holzer, E. B., Jenninger, B., Koval, M., Laycock, P., Lehmann Miotto, G., Lichard, P., Mapelli, A., Massri, K., Noy, M., Palladino, V., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pinzino, J., Ryjov, V., Schuchmann, S., Venditti, S., Bache, T., Brunetti, M. B., Duk, V., Fascianelli, V., Fry, J. R., Gonnella, F., Goudzovski, E., Iacobuzio, L., Lazzeroni, C., Lurkin, N., Newson, F., Parkinson, C., Romano, A., Sergi, A., Sturgess, A., Swallow, J., Heath, H., Page, R., Trilov, S., Angelucci, B., Britton, D., Graham, C., Protopopescu, D., Carmignani, J., Dainton, J. B., Jones, R. W. L., Ruggiero, G., Fulton, L., Hutchcroft, D., Maurice, E., Wrona, B., Conovaloff, A., Cooper, P., Coward, D., and Rubin, P.
Subjects: Exotics, branching ratio: upper limit [pi0], Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Meson, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, NA62, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment, 0103 physical sciences, mixing, ddc:530, fluctuation [background], pi0: branching ratio: upper limit, K: branching ratio, 010306 general physics, invisible decay [pi0], Physics, lifetime, Range (particle radiation), Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Settore FIS/04, branching ratio [K], pi0: invisible decay, Fermion, CERN SPS, hidden sector, Fixed target experiments, Rare decay, coupling [fermion], Beyond Standard Model, Higgs boson, axion-like particles, background: fluctuation, High Energy Physics::Experiment, fermion: coupling, Particle Physics - Experiment, experimental results
Abstract: Journal of high energy physics 02(2), 201 (2021). doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2021)201, The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS reports a study of a sample of $4 \times10^{9}$ tagged $\pi^0$ mesons from $K^+ \to \pi^+ \pi^0 (\gamma)$, searching for the decay of the $\pi^0$ to invisible particles. No signal is observed in excess of the expected background fluctuations. An upper limit of $4.4 \times10^{-9}$ is set on the branching ratio at 90% confidence level, improving on previous results by a factor of 60. This result can also be interpreted as a model-independent upper limit on the branching ratio for the decay $K^+ \to \pi^+ X$, where $X$ is a particle escaping detection with mass in the range 0.110-0.155 GeV$/c^2$ and rest lifetime greater than 100 ps. Model-dependent upper limits are obtained assuming $X$ to be an axion-like particle with dominant fermion couplings or a dark scalar mixing with the Standard Model Higgs boson., Published by SISSA, [Trieste]
Published: 2021

6. New result on the search for the $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu\bar\nu$ decay at the NA62 experiment at CERN

Author: Radoslav Marchevski
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear physics, Large Hadron Collider, Bar (music), NA62 experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The ultra-rare $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu\overline{\nu}$ decay benefits from a precisely predicted branching ratio in the SM$BR(K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu\overline{\nu}) = (8.4\pm 1.0)\times10^{-11}$, being almost free from theoretical uncertainties, andmost importantly from a very high sensitivity to a variety ofbeyond-the-standard-model scenarios, making it one of the bestcandidates to reveal indirect effects of new physics in the flavoursector. The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS, designed to measurethe branching ratio of $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu\overline{\nu}$with a decay-in-flight technique, collected data in 2016-2018. Newresults from the analysis of 2018 data, the largest data set so farcollected, will be presented. The result will represent the mostaccurate measurement so far achieved of this ultra-rare decay.
Published: 2021

7. Latest results from the NA62 experiment at CERN

Author: Lurkin, Nicolas, 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., Britton, D., Brizioli, F., Brunetti, M.B., Bryman, D., Bucci, F., Ca-Pussela, T., Carmignani, J., Ceccucci, A., Cenci, P., Cerny, V., Cerri, C., Checcucci, B., Conovaloff, A., Cooper, P., Cortina Gil, E., Corvino, M., Costantini, F., Cotta Ramusino, A., Coward, D., D'Agostini, G., Dainton, J., Dalpiaz, P., Danielsson, H., De Simone, N., Di Filippo, D., Di Lella, L., Doble, N., Dobrich, B., Duval, F., Duk, V., Engelfried, J., Enik, T., Estrada-Tristan, N., Falaleev, V., Fantechi, R., Fascianelli, V., Federici, L., Fedotov, S., Filippi, A., Fiorini, M., Fry, J., Fu, J., Fucci, A., Fulton, L., Gamberini, E., Gatignon, L., Georgiev, G., Ghinescu, S., Gianoli, A., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Gonnella, F., Goudzovski, E., Graham, C., Guida, R., Gushchin, E., Hahn, F., Heath, H., Holzer, E.B., Husek, T., Hutanu, O., Hutchcroft, D., Iacobuzio, L., Iacopini, E., Imbergamo, E., Jerhot, J., Jones, R.W., Kampf, K., Kekelidze, V., Kholodenko, S., Khori-Auli, G., Khotyantsev, A., Kleimenova, A., Korotkova, A., Koval, M., Kozhuharov, V., Kucerova, Z., Kudenko, Y., Kunze, J., Kurochka, V., Kurshetsov, V., Lanfranchi, G., Lamanna, G., Lari, E., Latino, G., Laycock, P., Lazzeroni, C., Lenti, M., Lehmann Miotto, G., Leonardi, E., Lichard, P., Litov, L., Lollini, R., Lomidze, D., Lonardo, A., Lubrano, P., Lupi, M., Lurkin, N., Madigozhin, D., Mannelli, I., Mannocchi, G., Mapelli, A., Marchetto, F., Marchevski, R., Martellotti, S., Mas-Sarotti, P., Massri, K., Maurice, E., Medvedeva, M., Mefodev, A., Menichetti, E., Migliore, E., Minucci, E., Mirra, M., Mi-Sheva, M., Molokanova, N., Moulson, M., Movchan, S., Napolitano, M., Neri, I., Newson, F., Norton, A., Noy, M., Numao, T., Obraztsov, V., Ostankov, A., Padolski, S., Page, R., Palladino, V., Parenti, A., Parkinson, C., Pedreschi, E., Pepe, M., Perrin-Terrin, M., Peruzzo, L., Petrov, P., Petrov, Y., Petrucci, F., Piandani, R., Piccini, M., Pinzino, J., Polenkevich, I., Pontisso, L., Potrebenikov, Yu, Protopopescu, D., Raggi, M., Romano, A., Rubin, P., Ruggiero, G., Ryjov, V., Salamon, A., Santoni, C., Saracino, G., Sargeni, F., Schuchmann, S., Semenov, V., Sergi, A., Shaikhiev, A., Shkarovskiy, S., Soldi, D., Sugonyaev, V., Sozzi, M., Spadaro, T., Spinella, F., Sturgess, A., Swallow, J., Trilov, S., Valente, P., Velghe, B., Venditti, S., Vicini, P., Volpe, R., Vormstein, M., Wahl, H., Wanke, R., Wrona, B., Yushchenko, O., Zamkovsky, M., A. Zinchenko, and UCL - SST/IRMP - Institut de recherche en mathématique et physique
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Branching fraction, hep-ex, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Settore FIS/04, FOS: Physical sciences, NA62 experiment, Lepton number, Dark photon, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Hidden sector, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics::Experiment, Sensitivity (control systems), Nuclear Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: NA62 is a fixed target kaon experiment at the CERN SPS which aims at measuring the branching ratio of the $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$ decay with 10% precision. This ultra-rare kaon decay is theoretically extremely clean and an ideal place to look for physics beyond the Standard Model. The NA62 experiment has been running in 2016-2018 and has accumulated a large amount of kaon decays. The final result of the $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$ analysis using the 2016 dataset is discussed as well as prospects for the analysis of the 2017 dataset. NA62 also has sensitivity to various other rare and forbidden kaon decays, as well as some hidden sector models. The results of a search for the Lepton Number Violating decays $K^+\to\pi^-\ell^+\ell^+\ [\ell=e,\mu]$ is presented, along with new limits on the existence of a dark photon., Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, talk given at ALPS2019, Obergurgl, 22-27 April 2019
Published: 2021

8. The $(K^+\rightarrow \pi ^+\nu \bar {\nu })$ Decay and New Physics Searches at NA62

Author: Alexey Khotyantsev, Luca Pontisso, Giuseppe Latino, Piero Vicini, Silvia Martellotti, Sergey Shkarovskiy, Yury Kudenko, Dosbol Baigarashev, Elisa Minucci, Johannes Bernhard, Roberto Piandani, Massimiliano Fiorini, Fabio Ambrosino, David Hutchcroft, Roberta Volpe, Mattia Barbanera, Angelo Cotta Ramusino, Dmitry Madigozhin, Karim Massri, Francesco Brizioli, Alessandro Lonardo, Aigul Baeva, Andrea Salamon, Temur Enik, Helen Heath, Joel Swallow, and Sergey Kholodenko
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Photon, Branching fraction, Physics beyond the Standard Model, General Physics and Astronomy, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, NA62 experiment, Lepton number, Standard Model, Lepton
Abstract: The NA62 experiment at CERN was designed to measure the branching ratio of the ultra-rare $(K^+\rightarrow \pi ^+\nu \bar {\nu })$ decay with a decay-in-flight technique. The Standard Model prediction for this branching ratio is very precise and this process is an ideal candidate for the indirect search of New Physics at high-mass scale. NA62 took physics data from 2016 to 2018: the results of the $(K^+\rightarrow \pi ^+\nu \bar {\nu })$ analysis in the 2016+2017 data sets are presented. Moreover, the high-intensity setup, the flexibility of its trigger system, and the hermetic coverage of the experiment make NA62 a useful tool for the search of exotic particles in the MeV–GeV range weakly coupled to the Standard Model, such as heavy neutral leptons and dark photons. The status of these analyses will be reviewed, along with other New Physics studies carried out at NA62, such as the search for lepton flavour and lepton number violating K + decays.
Published: 2021

9. Search for an invisible vector boson from π 0 decays at NA62

Author: 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, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, Brunetti, Mb, Bryman, D, Bucci, F, Capussela, T, Carmignani, J, Ceccucci, A, Cenci, P, Cerny, V, Cerri, C, Checcucci, B, Conovaloff, A, Cooper, P, Cortina Gil, E, Corvino, M, Costantini, F, Cotta Ramusino, A, Coward, D, D’Agostini, G, Dainton, J, Dalpiaz, P, Danielsson, H, Desimone, N, Di Filippo, D, Di Lella, L, Doble, N, Dobrich, B, Duval, F, Duk, V, Engelfried, J, Enik, T, Estrada-Tristan, N, Falaleev, V, Fantechi, R, Fascianelli, V, Federici, L, Fedotov, S, Filippi, A, Fiorini, M, Fry, J, Fu, J, Fucci, A, Fulton, L, Gamberini, E, Gatignon, L, Georgiev, G, Ghinescu, S, Gianoli, A, Giorgi, M, Giudici, S, Gonnella, F, Goudzovski, E, Graham, C, Guida, R, Gushchin, E, Hahn, F, Heath, H, Holzer, Eb, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Imbergamo, E, Jenninger, B, Jerhot, J, Jones, Rw, Kampf, K, Kekelidze, V, Kholodenko, S, Khori-auli, G, Khotyantsev, A, Kleimenova, A, Korotkova, A, Koval, M, Kozhuharov, V, Kucerova, Z, Kudenko, Y, Kunze, J, Kurochka, V, Kurshetsov, V, Lanfranchi, G, Lamanna, G, Lari, E, Latino, G, Laycock, P, Lazzeroni, C, Lenti, M, Lehmann Miotto, G, Leonardi, E, Lichard, P, Litov, L, Lollini, R, Lomidze, D, Lonardo, A, Lubrano, P, Lupi, M, Lurkin, N, Madigozhin, D, Mannelli, I, Mannocchi, G, Mapelli, A, Marchetto, F, Marchevski, R, Martellotti, S, Mas-sarotti, P, Massri, K, Maurice, E, Medvedeva, M, Mefodev, A, Menichetti, E, Migliore, E, Minucci, E, Mirra, M, Mi-sheva, M, Molokanova, N, Moulson, M, Movchan, S, Napolitano, M, Neri, I, Newson, F, Norton, A, Noy, M, Numao, T, Obraztsov, V, Ostankov, A, Padolski, S, Page, R, Palladino, V, Parenti, A, Parkinson, C, Pedreschi, E, Pepe, M, Perrin-Terrin, M, Peruzzo, L, Petrov, P, Petrov, Y, Petrucci, F, Piandani, R, Piccini, M, Pinzino, J, Polenkevich, I, Pontisso, L, Potrebenikov, Y, Protopopescu, D, Raggi, M, Romano, A, Rubin, P, Ruggiero, G, Ryjov, V, Salamon, A, Santoni, C, Saracino, G, Sargeni, F, Schuchmann, S, Semenov, V, Sergi, A, Shaikhiev, A, Shkarovskiy, S, Soldi, D, Sugonyaev, V, Sozzi, M, Spadaro, T, Spinella, F, Sturgess, A, Swallow, J, Trilov, S, Valente, P, Velghe, B, Venditti, S, Vicini, P, Volpe, R, Vormstein, M, Wahl, H, Wanke, R, Wrona, B, Yushchenko, O, Zamkovsky, M, and Zinchenko, A
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Proton, Branching fraction, Settore FIS/04, Decay chain, NA62 experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment, Dark photon, Particle identification, Vector boson
Abstract: The search for an invisible vector boson from $\pi^0$ decays at the NA62 experiment at CERN Super Proton Syncrotron (SPS) is discussed. Within the proposed models for physics beyond the SM, hidden sectors consisting of new, light, weakly-coupled particles are a particularly compelling possibility. Thanks to the high beam intensity, the extremely good performance of the photon detection systems, particle identification system and the detectors timing, NA62 is suited to search for these new particles. Here the search for a dark photon from $\pi^0$ decays using the $k^{+}\rightarrow \pi^+\pi ^0$, $\pi^0\rightarrow A^1\gamma$ decay chain is illustrated. The result from the analysis of a sub-sample of 2016 data is reported, corresponding to 1% of the full statistics collected in 2016-2018. A new upper limit on the $\pi^0\rightarrow A^1\gamma$ branching ratio has been set as a function of the dark photon mass, thus producing a new upper limit on the dark photon coupling parameter.
Published: 2020

10. Status of the NA62 Experiment

Author: 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, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, Brunetti, Mb, Bryman, D, Bucci, F, Capussela, T, Carmignani, J, Ceccucci, A, Cenci, P, Cerny, V, Cerri, C, Checcucci, B, Conovaloff, A, Cooper, P, Cortinagil, E, Corvino, M, Costantini, F, Cotta Ramusino, A, Coward, D, D’Agostini, G, Dainton, J, Dalpiaz, P, Danielsson, H, De Simone, N, Di Filippo, D, Di Lella, L, Doble, N, Dobrich, B, Duval, F, Duk, V, Engelfried, J, Enik, T, Estrada-Tristan, N, Falaleev, V, Fantechi, R, Fascianelli, V, Federici, L, Fedotov, S, Filippi, A, Fiorini, M, Fry, J, Fu, J, Fucci, A, Fulton, L, Gamberini, E, Gatignon, L, Georgiev, G, Ghinescu, S, Gianoli, A, Giorgi, M, Giudici, S, Gonnella, F, Goudzovski, E, Graham, C, Guida, R, Gushchin, E, Hahn, F, Heath, H, Holzer, Eb, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Imbergamo, E, Jenninger, B, Jerhot, J, Jones, Rw, Kampf, K, Kekelidze, V, Kholodenko, S, Khoriauli, G, Khotyantsev, A, Kleimenova, A, Korotkova, A, Koval, M, Kozhuharov, V, Kucerova, Z, Kudenko, Y, Kunze, J, Kurochka, V, Kurshetsov, V, Lanfranchi, G, Lamanna, G, Lari, E, Latino, G, Laycock, P, Lazzeroni, C, Lenti, M, Lehmann Miotto, G, Leonardi, E, Lichard, P, Litov, L, Lollini, R, Lomidze, D, Lonardo, A, Lubrano, P, Lupi, M, Lurkin, N, Madigozhin, D, Mannelli, I, Mannocchi, G, Mapelli, A, Marchetto, F, Marchevski, R, Martellotti, S, Massarotti, P, Massri, K, Maurice, E, Medvedeva, M, Mefodev, A, Menichetti, E, Migliore, E, Minucci, E, Mirra, M, Misheva, M, Molokanova, N, Moulson, M, Movchan, S, Napolitano, M, Neri, I, Newson, F, Norton, A, Noy, M, Numao, T, Obraztsov, V, Ostankov, A, Padolski, S, Page, R, Palladino, V, Parenti, A, Parkinson, C, Pedreschi, E, Pepe, M, Perrin-Terrin, M, Peruzzo, L, Petrov, P, Petrov, Y, Petrucci, F, Piandani, R, Piccini, M, Pinzino, J, Polenkevich, I, Pontisso, L, Potrebenikov, Y, Protopopescu, D, Raggi, M, Romano, A, Rubin, P, Ruggiero, G, Ryjov, V, Salamon, A, Santoni, C, Saracino, G, Sargeni, F, Schuchmann, S, Semenov, V, Sergi, A, Shaikhiev, A, Shkarovskiy, S, Soldi, D, Sugonyaev, V, Sozzi, M, Spadaro, T, Spinella, F, Sturgess, A, Swallow, J, Trilov, S, Valente, P, Velghe, B, Venditti, S, Vicini, P, Volpe, R, Vormstein, M, Wahl, H, Wanke, R, Wrona, B, Yushchenko, O, Zamkovsky, M, and Zinchenko, A
Subjects: Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Physics, QC1-999, Settore FIS/04, Detector, Measure (physics), NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, Standard Model, 0103 physical sciences, Statistics, 010306 general physics, Event (probability theory), Mathematics
Abstract: The decay $ {K^ + } \to {\pi ^ + }v\bar v $, with a very precisely predicted branching ratio of less than 10−10 in the Standard Model framework, is one of the best candidates to reveal indirect effects of new physics at the highest mass scales. The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is designed to measure the branching ratio of such decay with a decay-in-flight technique, novel for this channel. The main goal of NA62 is to measure such Branching Ratio of $ {K^ + } \to {\pi ^ + }v\bar v $ with an accuracy better than 20%. This will be achieved by collecting up to 100 $ {K^ + } \to {\pi ^ + }v\bar v $ events with a background contamination at the level of 10%. The NA62 detector was commissioned in 2014 and 2015 and the experiment took physics data from 2015 to 2018. NA62 has already published the result of the 2016 data analysis. The 2017 data analysis is in progress, the single event sensitivity reached and the evaluation of the main backgrounds will be shown in this contribution.
Published: 2020

11. Physics beyond the standard model with kaons at NA62

Author: Massarotti, P., Aliberti, R., Ambrosino, F., Ammendola, R., Angelucci, B., Antonelli, A., Anzivino, G., Arcidiacono, R., Barbanera, M., Biagioni, A., Bician, L., Biino, C., Bizzeti, A., Blazek, T., Bloch-Devaux, B., Bonaiuto, V., Boretto, M., Bragadireanu, M., Britton, D., Brizioli, F., Brunetti, M. B., Bryman, D., Bucci, F., Capussela, T., Ceccucci, A., Cenci, P., Cerny, V., Cerri, C., Checcucci, B., Conovalo, A., Cooper, P., Cortina Gil, E., Corvino, M., Costantini, F., Cotta Ramusino, A., Coward, D., Dagostini, G., Dainton, J., Dalpiaz, P., Danielsson, H., De Simone, N., Di Filippo, D., Laycock, P., Di Lella, L., Doble, N., Dobrich, B., Duval, F., Duk, V., Engelfried, J., Enik, T., Estrada-Tristan, N., Falaleev, V., Fantechi, R., Fascianelli, V., Federici, L., Fedotov, S., Filippi, A., Fiorini, M., Fry, J., Fu, J., Fucci, A., Fulton, L., Gamberini, E., Gatignon, L., Georgiev, G., Ghinescu, S., Gianoli, A., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Gonnella, F., Goudzovski, E., Graham, C., Guida, R., Gushchin, E., Hahn, F., Heath, H., Husek, T., Hutanu, O., Hutchcroft, D., Iacobuzio, L., Iacopini, E., Imbergamo, E., Jenninger, B., Kampf, K., Kekelidze, V., Kholodenko, S., Khoriauli, G., Khotyantsev, A., Kleimenova, A., Korotkova, A., Koval, M., Kozhuharov, V., Kucerova, Z., Kudenko, Y., Kunze, J., Kurochka, V., Kurshetsov, V., Lanfranchi, G., Lamanna, G., Latino, G., Lazzeroni, C., Lehmann Miotto, G., Lenti, M., Leonardi, E., Lichard, P., Litov, L., Lollini, R., Lomidze, D., Lonardo, A., Lubrano, P., Lupi, M., Lurkin, N., Madigozhin, D., Mannelli, I., Mannocchi, G., Mapelli, A., Marchetto, F., Marchevski, R., Martellotti, S., Massri, K., Maurice, E., Medvedeva, M., Mefodev, A., Menichetti, E., Migliore, E., Minucci, E., Mirra, M., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Moulson, M., Movchan, S., Napolitano, M., Neri, I., Newson, F., Norton, A., Noy, M., Numao, T., Obraztsov, V., Ostankov, A., Padolski, S., Page, R., Palladino, V., Parkinson, C., Pedreschi, E., Pepe, M., Perrin-Terrin, M., Peruzzo, L., Petrov, P., Petrucci, F., Piandani, R., Piccini, M., Pinzino, J., Polenkevich, I., Pontisso, L., Potrebenikov, Yu., Protopopescu, D., Raggi, M., Romano, A., Rubin, P., Ruggiero, G., Ryjov, V., Salamon, A., Santoni, C., Saracino, G., Sargeni, F., Semenov, V., Sergi, A., Shaikhiev, A., Shkarovskiy, S., Soldi, D., Sougonyaev, V., Sozzi, M., Spadaro, T., Spinella, F., Sturgess, A., Swallow, J., Trilov, S., Valente, P., Velghe, B., Venditti, S., Vicini, P., Volpe, R., Vormstein, M., Wahl, H., Wanke, R., Wrona, B., Yushchenko, O., Zamkovsky, M., and Zinchenko, A.
Subjects: Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Photon, kaon decays, Branching fraction, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Settore FIS/04, NA62 experiment, Super Proton Synchrotron, kaon decays, BSM, Dark photon, NA62, Standard Model, Nuclear physics, Kaon Physics, BSM, kaon, Kaon Physics, NA62
Abstract: The NA62 experiment at CERN Super Proton Synchrotron was designed to measure BR(K+ → π+νv¯) with an in-fight technique, never used before for this measurement. This decay is characterised by a very precise prediction in the Standard Model. Its branching ratio, which is expected to be less than 10−10, is one of the best candidates to indicate indirect effects of new physics beyond SM at the highest mass scales. NA62 result on K+ → π+νv¯ from the full 2016 data set is described.Also a search for an invisible dark photon A′ has been performed, exploiting the efficient photon-veto capability and high resolution tracking of the NA62. The signal stems from the chain K+ → π+π0 followed by π0 → A′γ. No significant statistical excess has been identified. Upper limits on the dark photon coupling to the ordinary photon as a function of the dark photon mass have been set, improving on the previous limits over the mass range 60 - 110 MeV/c2.
Published: 2020

12. New Result on K+→π+νν̄ from the NA62 Experiment

Author: 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, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, Brunetti, Mb, Bryman, D, Bucci, F, Capussela, T, Carmignani, J, Ceccucci, A, Cenci, P, Cerny, V, Cerri, C, Checcucci, B, Conovaloff, A, Cooper, P, Cortinagil, E, Corvino, M, Costantini, F, Cotta Ramusino, A, Coward, D, D’Agostini, G, Dainton, J, Dalpiaz, P, Danielsson, H, Desimone, N, Di Filippo, D, Di Lella, L, Doble, N, Dobrich, B, Duval, F, Duk, V, Engelfried, J, Enik, T, Estrada-Tristan, N, Falaleev, V, Fantechi, R, Fascianelli, V, Federici, L, Fedotov, S, Filippi, A, Fiorini, M, Fry, J, Fu, J, Fucci, A, Fulton, L, Gamberini, E, Gatignon, L, Georgiev, G, Ghinescu, S, Gianoli, A, Giorgi, M, Giudici, S, Gonnella, F, Goudzovski, E, Graham, C, Guida, R, Gushchin, E, Hahn, F, Heath, H, Holzer, Eb, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Imbergamo, E, Jenninger, B, Jerhot, J, Jones, Rw, Kampf, K, Kekelidze, V, Kholodenko, S, Khoriauli, G, Khotyantsev, A, Kleimenova, A, Korotkova, A, Koval, M, Kozhuharov, V, Kucerova, Z, Kudenko, Y, Kunze, J, Kurochka, V, Kurshetsov, V, Lanfranchi, G, Lamanna, G, Lari, E, Latino, G, Laycock, P, Lazzeroni, C, Lenti, M, Lehmann Miotto, G, Leonardi, E, Lichard, P, Litov, L, Lollini, R, Lomidze, D, Lonardo, A, Lubrano, P, Lupi, M, Lurkin, N, Madigozhin, D, Mannelli, I, Mannocchi, G, Mapelli, A, Marchetto, F, Marchevski, R, Martellotti, S, Massarotti, P, Massri, K, Maurice, E, Medvedeva, M, Mefodev, A, Menichetti, E, Migliore, E, Minucci, E, Mirra, M, Misheva, M, Molokanova, N, Moulson, M, Movchan, S, Napolitano, M, Neri, I, Newson, F, Norton, A, Noy, M, Numao, T, Obraztsov, V, Ostankov, A, Padolski, S, Page, R, Palladino, V, Parenti, A, Parkinson, C, Pedreschi, E, Pepe, M, Perrin-Terrin, M, Peruzzo, L, Petrov, P, Petrov, Y, Petrucci, F, Piandani, R, Piccini, M, Pinzino, J, Polenkevich, I, Pontisso, L, Potrebenikov, Y, Protopopescu, D, Raggi, M, Romano, A, Rubin, P, Ruggiero, G, Ryjov, V, Salamon, A, Santoni, C, Saracino, G, Sargeni, F, Schuchmann, S, Semenov, V, Sergi, A, Shaikhiev, A, Shkarovskiy, S, Soldi, D, Sugonyaev, V, Sozzi, M, Spadaro, T, Spinella, F, Sturgess, A, Swallow, J, Trilov, S, Valente, P, Velghe, B, Venditti, S, Vicini, P, Volpe, R, Vormstein, M, Wahl, H, Wanke, R, Wrona, B, Yushchenko, O, Zamkovsky, M, and Zinchenko, A
Subjects: Physics, History, Particle physics, Bar (music), Settore FIS/04, Pi, NA62 experiment, Computer Science Applications, Education
Abstract: The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is designed to measure the branching ratio of the K + → π + ν ν ¯ with a decay-in-flight technique and took data in 2016–2018. The statistics collected in 2017 allows NA62 to achieve the best up–to–date single event sensitivity for K + → π + ν ν ¯ corresponding to more than 2 Standard Model K + → π + ν ν ¯ expected events. The analysis of the 2017 data has revealed 2 candidate K + → π + ν ν ¯ events, while 1.5 background were expected. Together with the candidate found on the 2016 data, this result leads to 1.85 × 10−10 as preliminary upper limit at 90% C.L. on the branching ratio of the K + → π + ν ν ¯ decay. The 2017 data also allow NA62 to achieve the best up–to–date sensitivity on the search for the π 0 → invisible decay.
Published: 2020

13. $K^+\rightarrow \pi ^+\nu \bar \nu $ Decay and NP Searches at NA62

Author: Alexey Khotyantsev, Luca Pontisso, Alessandra Filippi, Piero Vicini, Monica Pepe, Silvia Martellotti, Sergey Shkarovskiy, Yury Kudenko, Marco Mirra, Elisa Minucci, Johannes Bernhard, Roberto Piandani, Massimiliano Fiorini, Fabio Ambrosino, David Hutchcroft, Alberto Gianoli, Roberta Volpe, Mattia Barbanera, Roberta Arcidiacono, Angelo Cotta Ramusino, Mauro Raggi, Dmitry Madigozhin, Karim Massri, Francesco Brizioli, Alessandro Lonardo, Jacopo Pinzino, Andrea Salamon, Temur Enik, Roberto Ammendola, Helen Heath, Patrizia Cenci, Joel Swallow, Sergey Kholodenko, and Mauro Piccini
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Meson, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Bar (music), Branching fraction, Physics beyond the Standard Model, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, General Physics and Astronomy, NA62 experiment, Measure (mathematics), High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Analysis method, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The decay $K^+$ $\rightarrow$ $\pi^+$ $\nu\overline{\nu}$ with a very precisely predicted branching ratio of less than $10^{-10}$ is one of the best candidates to reveal indirect effects of new physics at the highest mass scales. The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is designed to measure the branching ratio of the $K^+$ $\rightarrow$ $\pi^+$ $\nu\overline{\nu}$. In 2016, the first data set good for physics has been collected. The preliminary result on BR($K^+$ $\rightarrow$ $\pi^+$ $\nu\overline{\nu}$) from the full 2016 data set is presented here. Due to the high beam energy and hermetic detector coverage, NA62 has also the opportunity to directly search for a multitude of long-lived beyond- Standard-Model particles, such as dark photons, dark scalars, axion-like particles, and heavy neutral leptons. An overview of the broader NA62 physics program with status and prospects will be illustrated.
Published: 2020

14. Status of the NA62 ring imaging Cherenkov detector

Author: A. Piluso, Viacheslav Duk, F. Maletta, Jürgen Engelfried, M. Lenti, Roberto Piandani, Mattia Barbanera, Roberto Ciaranfi, E. Imbergamo, V. Carassiti, E. Iacopini, F. Bucci, C. Campeggi, R. Volpe, R. Lollini, Andrea Bizzeti, A. Papi, Mauro Piccini, Giuseppe Latino, G. Scolieri, D. Aisa, P. Cenci, Antonio Cassese, N. Estrad Tristan, M. Bizzarri, M. Pepe, F. Brizioli, and G. Anzivino
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Muon, Large Hadron Collider, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Cherenkov detectors, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, Ring-imaging Cherenkov detector, Nuclear physics, Momentum, Pion, 0103 physical sciences, Decays of K mesons, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation
Abstract: The Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector of the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is a key element of particle identification in the NA62 experimental strategy. The detector fulfills different conditions: to distinguish pions from muons with a muon rejection factor of O(10 2 ) in the NA62 momentum range of operation, between 15 and 35 GeV/c; to measure particle arrival time in the decay region with a precision better than 100 ps; to provide fast signals and reference time to the NA62 trigger system. The main design aspects and functional characteristics, as well as the performance of the detector measured with the data taken in the first NA62 physics runs, will be summarized in this paper.
Published: 2020

15. Searches for lepton flavour and lepton number violation in K$^+$ decays

Author: G. Mannocchi, Tomáš Husek, K. Massri, P. S. Cooper, D. T. Madigozhin, D. Soldi, R. Marchevski, Antonino Sergi, F. Hahn, Matteo Lupi, J. R. Fry, C. Cerri, S. Trilov, V. Kurochka, R. Guida, T. Bache, L. Iacobuzio, S. Schuchmann, R. Fantechi, P. F. Dalpiaz, M. Raggi A. Romano, Claudio Santoni, Emilio Leonardi, Christopher John Parkinson, L. Fulton, F. Duval, David Lomidze, Roberto Piandani, J. Kunze, E. Minucci, A. Filippi, G. D'Agostini, M. Pepe, V. Sugonyaev, G. Saracino, A.I. Zinchenko, N. Doble, I. Polenkevich, A. Mefodev, D. Coward, O. Hutanu, Jürgen Engelfried, E. Pedreschi, V. Fascianelli, R. Aliberti, A. Norton, T. Capussela, A. Gianoli, V. Obraztsov, F. Bucci, G. Ruggiero, J. Carmignani, V. E. Semenov, Milena Misheva, M. Mirra, G. Lehmann Miotto, G. Lamanna, I. Mannelli, P. Petrov, C. Graham, Babette Döbrich, Yu. Kudenko, G. Anzivino, A. Sturgess, N. A. Molokanova, Evgueni Goudzovski, H. O. Danielsson, Mattia Barbanera, D. E. Hutchcroft, S. Padolski, M. Sozzi, V. Palladino, Fausto Sargeni, A. Antonelli, M. Napolitano, O. Yushchenko, Luca Pontisso, V. Kurshetsov, E. Gamberini, M. Fiorini, A. Fucci, Angelo Biagioni, A P Ostankov, T. Numao, S. Kholodenko, Ilaria Neri, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, B. Angelucci, R. Volpe, Roberta Arcidiacono, B. Velghe, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, L. Peruzzo, B. Bloch-Devaux, Sergei Fedotov, Vladimir Kekelidze, B. Jenninger, Alessandro Lonardo, Mauro Piccini, Paolo Massarotti, E. Lari, E. Gushchin, F. Newson, V. Cerny, Rainer Wanke, Aigul Baeva, R. D. page, Augusto Ceccucci, Z. Kucerova, F. Marchetto, Piero Vicini, L. Gatignon, M. Corvino, D. Protopopescu, Emilie Maurice, Nicolas Lurkin, Mario Giorgi, P. Rubin, D. Di Filippo, S. Shkarovskiy, M. B. Brunetti, G. Khoriauli, M. Lenti, R. W. L. Jones, Yu. Potrebenikov, P. Lichard, E. Iacopini, Giuseppe Latino, J. B. Dainton, M. Perrin-Terrin, Cristina Biino, J. Jerhot, L. Di Lella, Tommaso Spadaro, M. Boretto, V. Kozhuharov, M. Zamkovsky, Vladimir Ryjov, Johannes Bernhard, Helen F Heath, A. Parenti, F. Spinella, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, R. Lollini, Ernesto Migliore, A. Mapelli, B. Wrona, P. Lubrano, S. Giudici, M. Vormstein, P. Cenci, J. L. Fu, M. Koval, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, A. Khotyantsev, S. Ghinescu, M. Bragadireanu, A. Korotkova, E. Imbergamo, V. Falaleev, Francesco Gonnella, L. Bician, Luca Federici, J. Swallow, Tomas Blazek, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Conovaloff, J. Pinzino, Fabrizio Petrucci, Leander Litov, A. Kleimenova, Y. Petrov, Georgi P. Georgiev, Viacheslav Duk, Roberto Ammendola, A. Salamon, F. Brizioli, M. Moulson, Paul Laycock, Karol Kampf, H. D. Wahl, Paolo Valente, G. Lanfranchi, Dave Britton, N. Estrada-Tristan, B. Checcucci, Andrea Bizzeti, S. Martellotti, E. B. Holzer, M. Noy, E. Menichetti, N. De Simone, M. Medvedeva, and F. Costantini
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Range (particle radiation), Large Hadron Collider, Settore FIS/04, Flavour, NA62 experiment, Lepton number, Charged particle, Standard Model (mathematical formulation), High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton
Abstract: The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is designed to conduct precision tests of the Standard Model by studying rare decays of charged kaons. NA62 took data in 2016-2018 and collected a large sample of charged kaon decays into final states with multiple charged particles. The sensitivity to a range of lepton flavour and lepton number violating kaon decays provided by this data set is improved over the previously reported measurements. Results from the searches of $K^+→ π^-l^+l^+$ decays with a partial NA62 data sample are presented.
Published: 2020

16. NA62 RICH performance: measurement and optimization

Author: F. Brizioli, Viacheslav Duk, E. Iacopini, G. Anzivino, E. Imbergamo, Antonio Cassese, Jürgen Engelfried, Mauro Piccini, R. Lollini, Giuseppe Latino, R. Volpe, M. Lenti, M. Pepe, B. Checcucci, F. Bucci, Andrea Bizzeti, Roberto Ciaranfi, N. Estrada-Tristan, P. Cenci, and Mattia Barbanera
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Instrumentation, RICH detector, Ring (chemistry), NA62 experiment, Detector performance, Kaon decays, 01 natural sciences, Ring-imaging Cherenkov detector, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Positron, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, business.industry, Resolution (electron density), Radius, High Energy Physics::Experiment, business
Abstract: The Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector of the NA62 experiment at CERN SPS was commissioned in 2014, but the optimal performance was achieved in 2016 after the precise mirror alignment with reconstructed tracks. The measurement and monitoring of basic performance parameters is discussed: ring radius resolution, ring centre resolution, single hit resolution and mean number of hits per ring. The performance is measured with 2016 data on the positron sample. Different contributions to the resolutions are calculated.
Published: 2020

17. The RICH detector of the NA62 experiment

Author: 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, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, B Brunetti, M, Bryman, D, Bucci, F, Capussela, T, Carmignani, J, Ceccucci, A, Cenci, P, Cerny, V, Cerri, C, Checcucci, B, Conovaloff, A, Cooper, P, E Cortina Gil, Corvino, M, Costantini, F, A Cotta Ramusino, Coward, D, D’Agostini, G, Dainton, J, Dalpiaz, P, Danielsson, H, N De Simone, D Di Filippo, L Di Lella, Doble, N, Dobrich, B, Duval, F, Duk, V, Engelfried, J, Enik, T, Estrada-Tristan, N, Falaleev, V, Fantechi, R, Fascianelli, V, Federici, L, Fedotov, S, Filippi, A, Fiorini, M, Fry, J, J, F, Fucci, A, Fulton, L, Gamberini, E, Gatignon, L, Georgiev, G, Ghinescu, S, Gianoli, A, Giorgi, M, Giudici, S, Gonnella, F, Goudzovski, E, Graham, C, Guida, R, Gushchin, E, Hahn, F, Heath, H, B Holzer, E, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Imbergamo, E, Jenninger, B, Jerhot, J, W Jones, R, Kampf, K, Kekelidze, V, Kholodenko, S, Khoriauli, G, Khotyantsev, A, Kleimenova, A, Korotkova, A, Koval, M, Kozhuharov, V, Kucerova, Z, Kudenko, Y, Kunze, J, Kurochka, V, Kurshetsov, V, Lanfranchi, G, Lamanna, G, Lari, E, Latino, G, Laycock, P, Lazzeroni, C, Lenti, M, G Lehmann Miotto, Leonardi, E, Lichard, P, Litov, L, Lollini, R, Lomidze, D, Lonardo, A, Lubrano, P, Lupi, M, Lurkin, N, Madigozhin, D, Mannelli, I, Mannocchi, G, Mapelli, A, Marchetto, F, Marchevski, R, Martellotti, S, Massarotti, P, Massri, K, Maurice, E, Medvedeva, M, Mefodev, A, Menichetti, E, Migliore, E, Minucci, E, Mirra, M, Misheva, M, Molokanova, N, Moulson, M, Movchan, S, Napolitano, M, Neri, I, Newson, F, Norton, A, Noy, M, Numao, T, Obraztsov, V, Ostankov, A, Padolski, S, Page, R, Palladino, V, Parenti, A, Parkinson, C, Pedreschi, E, Pepe, M, Perrin-Terrin, M, Peruzzo, L, Petrov, P, Petrov, Y, Petrucci, F, Piandani, R, Piccini, M, Pinzino, J, Polenkevich, I, Pontisso, L, Potrebenikov, Y, Protopopescu, D, Raggi, M, Romano, A, Rubin, P, Ruggiero, G, Ryjov, V, Salamon, A, Santoni, C, Saracino, G, Sargeni, F, Schuchmann, S, Semenov, V, Sergi, A, Shaikhiev, A, Shkarovskiy, S, Soldi, D, Sugonyaev, V, Sozzi, M, Spadaro, T, Spinella, F, Sturgess, A, Swallow, J, Trilov, S, Turisini, M, Valente, P, Velghe, B, Venditti, S, Vicini, P, Volpe, R, Vormstein, M, Wahl, H, Wanke, R, Wrona, B, Yushchenko, O, Zamkovsky, M, and Zinchenko, A
Subjects: Physics, History, Optics, business.industry, Settore FIS/04, Detector, NA62 experiment, business, Computer Science Applications, Education
Abstract: The RICH detector of the NA62 experiment is one of the key detectors to achieve the muon rejection needed in the search for the K + → π + ν ν ¯ decay, performed by NA62. Since BR(K + → µ + ν) is higher than BR( K + → π + ν ν ¯ ) by more than 9 orders of magnitude, it represents one of the most relevant background contributions. Its rejection is performed with kinematic reconstruction of the event and identification of the charged particles in the final state (π + against µ +). The pion identification efficiency using the RICH detector is measured to be 83% in the momentum range between 15 and 35 GeV/c, with a misidentification probability for muons of 0.2%, while the track crossing time is measured with a resolution of 70 ps. The RICH detector is also exploited to provide trigger for charged particles with an efficiency greater than 99%.
Published: 2020

18. Study of the performance of the NA62 small-angle calorimeter at the DAΦNE Linac

Author: M. Moulson, A. Antonelli, V. Kozhuharov, Mauro Raggi, T. Spadaro, and Francesco Gonnella
Subjects: Shashlyk, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Photon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Electromagnetic calorimeter, Photon veto, Instrumentation, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, Linear particle accelerator, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, 010306 general physics, physics.ins-det, Physics, Test facility, Calorimeter (particle physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Resolution (electron density), Background suppression, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Beam (structure)
Abstract: The measurement of $BR(K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar{\nu})$ with 10% precision by the NA62 experiment requires extreme background suppression. The Small Angle Calorimeter aims to provide an efficient veto for photons flying at angles down to zero with respect to the kaon flight direction. The initial prototype was upgraded and tested at the Beam Test Facility of the DA$\Phi$NE Linac at Frascati. The energy resolution and the efficiency were measured and are presented., Comment: 5 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2018

19. New CHOD detector for the NA62 experiment at CERN

Author: A A Kleymenova, S A Fedotov, and A. N. Khotjantsev
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Scintillation, Large Hadron Collider, Pixel, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Photodetector, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, Optics, Hodoscope, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, business, Dark current
Abstract: The New CHOD is a scintillation hodoscope with a pad structure featuring a total of 148 counters. The signal from each pad is read out using wavelength-shifting fibers and two or four SensL SiPMs with a sensitive area of 3 × 3 mm2. This photodetector has 4774 pixels 35 × 35 μm2 in size. The key parameters (photon detection efficiency, dark current, crosstalk, and gain) were measured for 500 SiPMs.
Published: 2018

20. The kaon identification system in the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS

Author: Nicolas Lurkin and Piero Vicini
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cherenkov detector, Branching fraction, Hadron, Detector, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Pion, law, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation
Abstract: The fixed target experiment NA62 at CERN aims at measuring the ultra-rare decay K+→π+νν¯, whose branching ratio is of the order of 10−11. The main challenges faced by the experiment to achieve a 10% precision measurement are the required beam intensity and background rejection factor. The differential Cherenkov detector KTAG must be able to tag charged kaons in an unseparated hadron beam with an average particle rate of 750 MHz, of which 45 MHz are kaons, with a time precision of at least 100 ps and an efficiency higher than 95%. The additional pion contamination must be kept lower than 10−4. The RICH has been designed to separate charged pions from muons in the momentum range 15
Published: 2017

21. Search forK+→π+νν‾at NA62

Author: R. Volpe, G. Aglieri Rinella, R. Aliberti, F. Ambrosino, R. Ammendola, B. Angelucci, A. Antonelli, G. Anzivino, R. Arcidiacono, I. Azhinenko, S. Balev, M. Barbanera, J. Bendotti, A. Biagioni, L. Bician, C. Biino, A. Bizzeti, T. Blazek, A. Blik, B. Bloch-Devaux, V. Bolotov, V. Bonaiuto, M. Boretto, M. Bragadireanu, D. Britton, G. Britvich, M.B. Brunetti, D. Bryman, F. Bucci, F. Butin, E. Capitolo, C. Capoccia, T. Capussela, A. Cassese, A. Catinaccio, A. Cecchetti, A. Ceccucci, P. Cenci, V. Cerny, C. Cerri, B. Checcucci, O. Chikilev, S. Chiozzi, R. Ciaranfi, G. Collazuol, A. Conovaloff, P. Cooke, P. Cooper, G. Corradi, E. Cortina Gil, F. Costantini, F. Cotorobai, 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, S. Di Lorenzo, N. Dixon, N. Doble, B. Dobrich, V. Duk, V. Elsha, J. Engelfried, T. Enik, N. Estrada, V. Falaleev, R. Fantechi, V. Fascianelli, L. Federici, S. Fedotov, M. Fiorini, J. Fry, J. Fu, A. Fucci, L. Fulton, S. Gallorini, S. Galeotti, E. Gamberini, L. Gatignon, G. Georgiev, A. Gianoli, M. Giorgi, S. Giudici, L. Glonti, A. Goncalves Martins, F. Gonnella, E. Goudzovski, R. Guida, E. Gushchin, F. Hahn, B. Hallgren, H. Heath, F. Herman, T. Husek, O. Hutanu, D. Hutchcroft, L. Iacobuzio, E. Iacopini, E. Imbergamo, O. Jamet, P. Jarron, E. Jones, T. Jones, K. Kampf, J. Kaplon, V. Kekelidze, S. Kholodenko, G. Khoriauli, A. Khotyantsev, A. Khudyakov, Yu. Kiryushin, A. Kleimenova, K. Kleinknecht, A. Kluge, M. Koval, V. Kozhuharov, M. Krivda, Z. Kucerova, Yu. Kudenko, J. Kunze, G. Lamanna, G. Latino, C. Lazzeroni, G. Lehmann-Miotto, R. Lenci, M. Lenti, E. Leonardi, P. Lichard, R. Lietava, L. Litov, R. Lollini, D. Lomidze, A. Lonardo, M. Lupi, N. Lurkin, K. McCormick, D. Madigozhin, G. Maire, C. Mandeiro, I. Mannelli, G. Mannocchi, A. Mapelli, F. Marchetto, R. Marchevski, S. Martellotti, P. Massarotti, K. Massri, P. Matak, E. Maurice, A. Mefodev, E. Menichetti, E. Minucci, M. Mirra, M. Misheva, N. Molokanova, J. Morant, M. Morel, M. Moulson, S. Movchan, D. Munday, M. Napolitano, I. Neri, F. Newson, A. Norton, M. Noy, G. Nuessle, T. Numao, V. Obraztsov, A. Ostankov, S. Padolski, R. Page, V. Palladino, G. Paoluzzi, C. Parkinson, E. Pedreschi, M. Pepe, F. Perez Gomez, M. Perrin-Terrin, L. Peruzzo, P. Petrov, F. Petrucci, R. Piandani, M. Piccini, D. Pietreanu, J. Pinzino, I. Polenkevich, L. Pontisso, Yu. Potrebenikov, D. Protopopescu, F. Raffaelli, M. Raggi, P. Riedler, A. Romano, P. Rubin, G. Ruggiero, V. Russo, V. Ryjov, A. Salamon, G. Salina, V. Samsonov, C. Santoni, G. Saracino, F. Sargeni, V. Semenov, A. Sergi, M. Serra, A. Shaikhiev, S. Shkarovskiy, I. Skillicorn, D. Soldi, A. Sotnikov, V. Sugonyaev, M. Sozzi, T. Spadaro, F. Spinella, R. Staley, A. Sturgess, P. Sutcliffe, N. Szilasi, D. Tagnani, S. Trilov, M. Valdata-Nappi, P. Valente, M. Vasile, T. Vassilieva, B. Velghe, M. Veltri, S. Venditti, P. Vicini, M. Vormstein, H. Wahl, R. Wanke, P. Wertelaers, A. Winhart, R. Winston, B. Wrona, O. Yushchenko, M. Zamkovsky, and A. Zinchenko
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics beyond the Standard Model, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, Measure (mathematics), Nuclear physics, Quality (physics), 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics
Abstract: Among the meson decays, K → π ν ν ‾ are the cleanest environment, from the theoretical point of view, where to search for new physics effects. The NA62 Experiment at CERN SPS aims to measure the BR ( K + → π + ν ν ‾ ) with a 10% precision by the end of 2018. It has been commissioned with technical runs in 2014 and 2015, and some preliminary results of the detector performances and quality of data are here reported.
Published: 2017

22. KLEVER: An experiment to measure BR($K_L \rightarrow \pi^0\nu\bar{\nu}$) at the CERN SPS

Author: Klever and Matthew Moulson
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Photon, Neutral current, Unitarity, hep-ex, Physics beyond the Standard Model, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, NA62 experiment, Lambda, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutron, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, physics.ins-det, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Precise measurements of the branching ratios for the flavor-changing neutral current decays $K\to\pi\nu\bar{\nu}$ can provide unique constraints on CKM unitarity and, potentially, evidence for new physics. It is important to measure both decay modes, $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$ and $K_L\to\pi^0\nu\bar{\nu}$, since different new physics models affect the rates for each channel differently. The goal of the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is to measure the BR for the charged channel to within 10%. For the neutral channel, the BR has never been measured. KOTO, an experiment at J-PARC, should have enough data for the first observation of the decay by about 2021. We are designing the KLEVER experiment to measure BR($K_L\to\pi^0\nu\bar{\nu}$) to $\sim$20% using a high-energy neutral beam at the CERN SPS starting in Run 4. The boost from the high-energy beam facilitates the rejection of background channels such as $K_L\to\pi^0\pi^0$ by detection of the additional photons in the final state. On the other hand, the layout poses particular challenges for the design of the small-angle vetoes, which must reject photons from $K_L$ decays escaping through the beam pipe amidst an intense background from soft photons and neutrons in the beam. Background from $\Lambda \to n\pi^0$ decays in the beam must also be kept under control. We present findings from our design studies, with an emphasis on the challenges faced and the potential sensitivity for the measurement of BR($K_L\to\pi^0\nu\bar{\nu}$).
Published: 2019

23. NA62 sensitivity to heavy neutral leptons in the low scale seesaw model

Author: Jan Hajer
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Scale (ratio), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, NA62 experiment, law.invention, Seesaw molecular geometry, law, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Sensitivity (control systems), Beam dump, Neutrino oscillation, Scale type, Lepton
Abstract: I present our study on heavy neutral leptons in the low scale type I seesaw model at the fixed target experiment NA62. First, I show the constraints on the heavy neutrino mixing parameter from the neutrino oscillation data. Afterwards, I present sensitivity estimates of the NA62 experiment in the beam dump mode for different benchmark scenarios.
Published: 2019

24. Search for production of an invisible dark photon in (0) decays

Author: T. Numao, Paolo Valente, G. Mannocchi, Milena Misheva, M. Perrin-Terrin, Mattia Barbanera, S. Martellotti, A. Salamon, Dave Britton, B. Angelucci, L. Iacobuzio, E. B. Holzer, F. Brizioli, J. Jerhot, A. Ceccucci, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, Andrea Bizzeti, P. Cenci, Paul Laycock, F. Hahn, E. Pedreschi, V. Kurochka, N. A. Molokanova, M. Mirra, R. Page, A. Sturgess, J. B. Dainton, P. Lubrano, Roberta Arcidiacono, D. Soldi, S. Schuchmann, E. Gushchin, K. Massri, R. Fantechi, V. Cerny, Tomáš Husek, M. Napolitano, J. Kunze, N. De Simone, S. Padolski, Vladimir Kekelidze, D. T. Madigozhin, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, Evgueni Goudzovski, G. Lanfranchi, E. Maurice, L. Fulton, F. Duval, A. M. Bragadireanu, Rainer Wanke, L. Peruzzo, Cristina Biino, E. Minucci, M. Vormstein, M. Moulson, M. Lenti, P. F. Dalpiaz, R. Marchevski, H. D. Wahl, Andrea Biagioni, R. Volpe, M. Fiorini, B. Bloch-Devaux, S. Ghinescu, G. Khoriauli, E. Imbergamo, E. Menichetti, L. Di Lella, F. Newson, Tommaso Spadaro, Karol Kampf, G. D'Agostini, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, E. Gamberini, Matteo Lupi, C. Cerri, Fabrizio Petrucci, G. Saracino, Y. Petrov, M. Boretto, Leander Litov, F. Ambrosino, M. Pepe, S. Trilov, V. Fascianelli, Yu.A. Kudenko, V. Sugonyaev, Z. Kucerova, S. Shkarovskiy, A. Korotkova, M. Koval, M. Sozzi, Antonino Sergi, Jacopo Pinzino, Yu. Potrebenikov, Georgi P. Georgiev, O. Hutanu, B. Wrona, B. Jenninger, V. Palladino, A. Fucci, G. Anzivino, Viacheslav Duk, Jürgen Engelfried, R. Aliberti, P. Petrov, Mauro Raggi, A. Norton, Ilaria Neri, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, H. O. Danielsson, D. Coward, Sergei Fedotov, Roberto Ammendola, Vladimir Ryjov, V. Obraztsov, A. Khotyantsev, A. Mefodev, D. E. Hutchcroft, A. Mapelli, P. Rubin, O. Yushchenko, Luca Pontisso, I. Mannelli, F. Marchetto, L. Federici, Piero Vicini, S. Giudici, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, V. E. Semenov, V. Kurshetsov, Claudio Santoni, N. Estrada-Tristan, S. Kholodenko, Francesco Gonnella, G. Lehmann Miotto, J. Fu, C. Graham, P. Lichard, A. Filippi, Tomas Blazek, A. I. Zinchenko, B. Checcucci, E. Iacopini, A. Cotta Ramusino, P. Cooper, L. Gatignon, M. Corvino, L. Bician, T. Capussela, V. Falaleev, V. Kozhuharov, J. Swallow, M. Zamkovsky, A. Gianoli, Roberto Guida, D. Protopopescu, Paolo Massarotti, R. W. L. Jones, Babette Döbrich, Nicolas Lurkin, E. Lari, M. B. Brunetti, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, C. J. Parkinson, A. Conovaloff, Emilio Leonardi, A P Ostankov, I. Polenkevich, N. Doble, Matthew Noy, Helen F Heath, M. Medvedeva, Giuseppe Ruggiero, D. Lomidze, F. Costantini, T. Bache, M. Piccini, G. Lamanna, A. Kleimenova, Johannes Bernhard, A. Parenti, F. Spinella, R. Lollini, Ernesto Migliore, G. Latino, J. R. Fry, Alessandro Lonardo, E. Cortina Gil, Roberto Piandani, B. Velghe, J. Carmignani, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), NA62, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Ambrosino, F., Capussela, T., Corvino, M., Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Mirra, M., Napolitano, M., Saracino, G., and UCL - SST/IRMP - Institut de recherche en mathématique et physique
Subjects: Exotics, Photon, S009:Desig=15, Beyond Standard Model, Exotics, Fixed target experiments, Rare decay, NA62 experiment, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Dark photon, NA62, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Economica, photon: mass, photon: coupling, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], pi0: branching ratio: upper limit, +pi%2B+pi0%22">K+ --> pi+ pi0, Physics, S029HPH, photon: invisible decay, Coupling (probability), K+: hadronic decay, mass dependence, Fixed target experiment, Fixed target experiments, Production (computer science), S009.15, K+: secondary beam, beyond standard model, Particle Physics - Experiment, Exotic, rare decay, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Meson, pi0: radiative decay, coupling constant: upper limit, Partícules (Física nuclear), PE2_2, 0103 physical sciences, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, +photon+neutrino+antineutrino%22">pi0 --> photon neutrino antineutrino, 010306 general physics, fixed target experiments, photon: hidden sector, pi0: electromagnetic decay, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, exotics, CERN SPS, Rare decay, Orders of magnitude (time), Beyond Standard Model, lcsh:QC770-798, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Camps, Teoria quàntica de, experimental results
Abstract: The results of a search for π decays to a photon and an invisible massive dark photon at the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS are reported. From a total of 4.12 × 10 tagged π mesons, no signal is observed. Assuming a kinetic-mixing interaction, limits are set on the dark photon coupling to the ordinary photon as a function of the dark photon mass, improving on previous searches in the mass range 60–110 MeV/c. The present results are interpreted in terms of an upper limit of the branching ratio of the electro-weak decay π→ γνν¯ , improving the current limit by more than three orders of magnitude.
Published: 2019

25. The Gigatracker, the silicon beam tracker for the NA62 experiment at CERN

Author: E. Cortina Gil, E. Minucci, Roberta Arcidiacono, A. Ceccucci, L. Perktold, A. Kleimenova, F. Petrucci, S. Bonacini, G. Romagnoli, B. Velghe, J. Noël, Matthew Noy, J. Degrange, J. Kaplon, Giuseppe Ruggiero, Alexander Kluge, Massimiliano Fiorini, F. Marchetto, Ernesto Migliore, S. Chiozzi, A. Mapelli, Paolo Petagna, Cristina Biino, M. Morel, D. Alvarez Feito, A. Gianoli, E. Gamberini, L. Federici, H. Wahl, G. Aglieri Rinella, K. Poltorak, M. Perrin-Terrin, A. Cotta Ramusino, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Tracking detector, Silicon detector, Silicon, chemistry.chemical_element, Micro-channels cooling, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Fluence, Gigatracker, NA62, 99-00, Economica, PE2_2, Optics, semiconductor detector: pixel, 0103 physical sciences, Irradiation, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Hybrid silicon detector, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Resolution (electron density), Detector, Material budget, Time resolution, GTK, Pixel detector, 00-01, chemistry, business, Beam (structure), performance, semiconductor detector: design
Abstract: The Gigatracker is the NA62 beam tracker. It is made of three 63 . 1 m m × 29 . 3 m m stations of 300 μ m × 300 μ m hybrid silicon pixel detectors installed in vacuum ( ∼ 1 0 − 6 m b a r ). The beam particles, flowing at 750 M H z , are traced in 4-dimensions by mean of time-stamping pixels with a design resolution of 200 p s . This performance has to be maintained despite the beam irradiation amounting to a yearly fluence of 2 × 1 0 14 1 MeV n eq ∕ cm 2 . The detector material minimization is paramount, as the detector faces the full beam. The station material budget is reduced to 0 . 5 % X 0 by using (HEP world first) micro-channels cooling. We will describe the detector design and performances during the NA62 runs.
Published: 2019

26. Physics beyond the SM with kaons at NA62

Author: 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, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, Brunetti, Mb, Bryman, D, Bucci, F, Capussela, T, Carmignani, J, Ceccucci, A, Cenci, P, Cerny, V, Cerri, C, Checcucci, B, Conovaloff, A, Cooper, P, Cortina Gil, E, Corvino, M, Costantini, F, Cottaramusino, A, Coward, D, D’Agostini, G, Dainton, J, Dalpiaz, P, Danielsson, H, De Simone, N, Di Filippo, D, Di Lella, L, Doble, N, Dobrich, B, Duval, F, Duk, V, Engelfried, J, Enik, T, Estrada-Tristan, N, Falaleev, V, Fantechi, R, Fascianelli, V, Federici, L, Fedotov, S, Filippi, A, Fiorini, M, Fry, J, Fu, J, Fucci, A, Fulton, L, Gamberini, E, Gatignon, L, Georgiev, G, Ghinescu, S, Gianoli, A, Giorgi, M, Giudici, S, Gonnella, F, Goudzovski, E, Graham, C, Guida, R, Gushchin, E, Hahn, F, Heath, H, Holzer, Eb, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Imbergamo, E, Jenninger, B, Jerhot, J, Jones, Rw, Kampf, K, Kekelidze, V, Kholodenko, S, Khoriauli, G, Khotyantsev, A, Kleimenova, A, Korotkova, A, Koval, M, Kozhuharov, V, Kucerova, Z, Kudenko, Y, Kunze, J, Kurochka, V, Kurshetsov, V, Lanfranchi, G, Lamanna, G, Lari, E, Latino, G, Laycock, P, Lazzeroni, C, Lenti, M, Lehmann Miotto, G, Leonardi, E, Lichard, P, Litov, L, Lollini, R, Lomidze, D, Lonardo, A, Lubrano, P, Lupi, M, Lurkin, N, Madigozhin, D, Mannelli, I, Mannocchi, G, Mapelli, A, Marchetto, F, Marchevski, R, Martellotti, S, Massarotti, P, Massri, K, Maurice, E, Medvedeva, M, Mefodev, A, Menichetti, E, Migliore, E, Minucci, E, Mirra, M, Misheva, M, Molokanova, N, Moulson, M, Movchan, S, Napolitano, M, Neri, I, Newson, F, Norton, A, Noy, M, Numao, T, Obraztsov, V, Ostankov, A, Padolski, S, Page, R, Palladino, V, Parenti, A, Parkinson, C, Pedreschi, E, Pepe, M, Perrin-Terrin, M, Peruzzo, L, Petrov, P, Petrov, Y, Petrucci, F, Piandani, R, Piccini, M, Pinzino, J, Polenkevich, I, Pontisso, L, Potrebenikov, Y, Protopopescu, D, Raggi, M, Romano, A, Rubin, P, Ruggiero, G, Ryjov, V, Salamon, A, Santoni, C, Saracino, G, Sargeni, F, Schuchmann, S, Semenov, V, Sergi, A, Shaikhiev, A, Shkarovskiy, S, Soldi, D, Sugonyaev, V, Sozzi, M, Spadaro, T, Spinella, F, Sturgess, A, Swallow, J, Trilov, S, Valente, P, Velghe, B, Venditti, S, Vicini, P, Volpe, R, Vormstein, M, Wahl, H, Wanke, R, Wrona, B, Yushchenko, O, Zamkovsky, M, and Zinchenko, A
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Branching fraction, Physics beyond the Standard Model, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, NA62 experiment, Lepton number, Charged particle, Standard Model, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton
Abstract: The decay $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+} v \overline{v}$, with a very precisely predicted branching ratio of less than $10^{-10}$, is one of the best candidates to reveal indirect effects of new physics at the highest mass scales. The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is designed to measure the branching ratio of the $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+} v \overline{v}$ with a decay-in-flight technique. NA62 took data so far in 2016-2018. Statistics collected in 2016 allowed NA62 to reach the Standard Model sensitivity for $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+} v \overline{v}$, entering the domain of $10^{-10}$ single event sensitivity and showing the proof of principle of the experiment. Thanks to the statistics collected in 2017, NA62 surpasses the present best sensitivity. The analysis strategy is reviewed and the preliminary result from the 2017 data set is presented.The NA62 experiment at CERN collected a large sample of charged kaon decays into final states with multiple charged particles in 2016-2018. The sensitivity to a range of lepton flavour and lepton number violating kaon decays provided by this data set improves over the previously reported measurements. Results from the searches for these processes with a partial NA62 data sample are presented.
Published: 2019

27. The RICH detector of the NA62 experiment at CERN

Author: Brizioli, F., Aliberti, R., Ambrosino, F., Ammendola, R., Angelucci, B., Antonelli, A., Anzivino, G., Arcidiacono, R., Bache, T., Barbanera, M., Bernhard, J., Bia-Gioni, A., Bician, L., Biino, C., Bizzeti, A., Blazek, T., Bloch-Devaux, B., Bonaiuto, V., Boretto, M., Bragadireanu, M., Britton, D., Brunetti, M. B., Bry-Man, D., Bucci, F., Capussela, T., Carmignani, J., Ceccucci, A., Cenci, P., Cerny, V., Cerri, C., Checcucci, B., Conovaloff, A., Cooper, P., Cortina Gil, E., Corvino, M., Costantini, F., Cotta Ramusino, A., Coward, D., D'Agostini, G., Dainton, J., Dalpiaz, P., Danielsson, H., De Simone, N., DI Filippo, D., DI Lella, L., Doble, N., Dobrich, B., Duval, F., Duk, V., Engelfried, J., Enik, T., Estrada-Tristan, N., Falaleev, V., Fantechi, R., Fascianelli, V., Federici, L., Fedotov, S., Filippi, A., Fiorini, M., Fry, J., Fu, J., Fucci, A., Fulton, L., Gamberini, E., Gatignon, L., Georgiev, G., Ghinescu, S., Gianoli, A., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Gonnella, F., Goudzovski, E., Graham, C., Guida, R., Gushchin, E., Hahn, F., Heath, H., Holzer, E. B., Husek, T., Hutanu, O., Hutchcroft, D., Iacobuzio, L., Iacopini, E., Imbergamo, E., Jenninger, B., Jerhot, J., Jones, R. W., Kampf, K., Kekelidze, V., Kholodenko, S., Khoriauli, G., Khotyantsev, A., Kleimenova, A., Korotkova, A., Koval, M., Kozhuharov, V., Kucerova, Z., Kudenko, Y., Kunze, J., Kurochka, V., Kurshetsov, V., Lanfranchi, G., Lamanna, G., Lari, E., Latino, G., Laycock, P., Lazzeroni, C., Lenti, M., Lehmann Miotto, G., Leonardi, E., Lichard, P., Litov, L., Lollini, R., Lomidze, D., Lonardo, A., Lubrano, P., Lupi, M., Lurkin, N., Madigozhin, D., Mannelli, I., Mannocchi, G., Mapelli, A., Marchetto, F., Marchevski, R., Martellotti, S., Massarotti, P., Massri, K., Maurice, E., Medvedeva, M., Mefodev, A., Menichetti, E., Migliore, E., Minucci, E., Mirra, M., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Moulson, M., Movchan, S., Napoli-Tano, M., Neri, I., Newson, F., Norton, A., Noy, M., Numao, T., Obraztsov, V., Ostankov, A., Padolski, S., Page, R., Palladino, V., Parenti, A., Parkinson, C., Pedreschi, E., Pepe, M., Perrin-Terrin, M., Peruzzo, L., Petrov, P., Petrov, Y., Petrucci, F., Piandani, R., Piccini, M., Pinzino, J., Polenkevich, I., Pon-Tisso, L., Potrebenikov, Yu., Protopopescu, D., Raggi, M., Romano, A., Rubin, P., Ruggiero, G., Ryjov, V., Salamon, A., Santoni, C., Saracino, G., Sargeni, F., Schuchmann, S., Semenov, V., Sergi, A., Shaikhiev, A., Shkarovskiy, S., Soldi, D., Sugonyaev, V., Sozzi, M., Spadaro, T., Spinella, F., Sturgess, A., Swallow, J., Trilov, S., Turisini, M., Valente, P., Velghe, B., Venditti, S., Vicini, P., Volpe, R., Vormstein, M., Wahl, H., Wanke, R., Wrona, B., Yushchenko, O., Zamkovsky, M., Zinchenko, A., Ambrosino, F., Corvino, M., Massarotti, P., Mirra, M., Napolitano, M., and Saracino, G.
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Cherenkov detector, Settore FIS/04, NA62 experiment, Charged particle, Ring-imaging Cherenkov detector, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Pion, Orders of magnitude (time), law, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Bar (unit)
Abstract: The RICH detector of the NA62 experiment is one of the key detectors to achieve the muon rejection needed in the search for the ${K^ + } \to {\pi ^ + }\nu \bar \nu $ decay, performed by NA62. Since $BR({K^ + } \to {\mu ^ + }\nu )$ is higher than $BR({K^ + } \to {\pi ^ + }\nu \bar \nu )$ by more than 9 orders of magnitude, it represents one of the most relevant background contributions. Its rejection is performed with kinematic reconstruction of the event and identification of the charged particles in the final state (pions against muons). The Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector (RICH) gives a muon rejection higher than a factor 100 in the momentum range 15-35 GeV/c, and measures the track crossing time with a resolution better than 100 ps. It is also exploited to provide trigger for charged particles. In this contribution the RICH detector will be described, together with its basic performance, the mirrors alignment procedure and its usage in ${K^ + } \to {\pi ^ + }\nu \bar \nu $ search.
Published: 2019

28. Search for Exotic Decays with NA62

Author: 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, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, Brunetti, Mb, Bryman, D, Bucci, F, Capussela, T, Carmignani, J, Ceccucci, A, Cenci, P, Cerny, V, Cerri, C, Checcucci, B, Conovaloff, A, Cooper, P, Cortina Gil, E, Corvino, M, Costantini, F, Cotta Ramusino, A, Coward, D, D’Agostini, G, Dainton, J, Dalpiaz, P, Danielsson, H, De Simone, N, Di Filippo, D, Di Lella, L, Doble, N, Dobrich, B, Duval, F, Duk, V, Engelfried, J, Enik, T, Estrada-Tristan, N, Falaleev, V, Fantechi, R, Fascianelli, V, Federici, L, Fedotov, S, Filippi, A, Fiorini, M, Fry, J, Fu, J, Fucci, A, Fulton, L, Gamberini, E, Gatignon, L, Georgiev, G, Ghinescu, S, Gianoli, A, Giorgi, M, Giudici, S, Gonnella, F, Goudzovski, E, Graham, C, Guida, R, Gushchin, E, Hahn, F, Heath, H, Holzer, Eb, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Imbergamo, E, Jenninger, B, Jerhot, J, Jones, Rw, Kampf, K, Kekelidze, V, Kholodenko, S, Khoriauli, G, Khotyantsev, A, Kleimenova, A, Korotkova, A, Koval, M, Kozhuharov, V, Kucerova, Z, Kudenko, Y, Kunze, J, Kurochka, V, Kurshetsov, V, Lanfranchi, G, Lamanna, G, Lari, E, Latino, G, Laycock, P, Lazzeroni, C, Lenti, M, Lehmann Miotto, G, Leonardi, E, Lichard, P, Litov, L, Lollini, R, Lomidze, D, Lonardo, A, Lubrano, P, Lupi, M, Lurkin, N, Madigozhin, D, Mannelli, I, Mannocchi, G, Mapelli, A, Marchetto, F, Marchevski, R, Martellotti, S, Massarotti, P, Massri, K, Maurice, E, Medvedeva, M, Mefodev, A, Menichetti, E, Migliore, E, Minucci, E, Mirra, M, Misheva, M, Molokanova, N, Moulson, M, Movchan, S, Napolitano, M, Neri, I, Newson, F, Norton, A, Noy, M, Numao, T, Obraztsov, V, Ostankov, A, Padolski, S, Page, R, Palladino, V, Parenti, A, Parkinson, C, Pedreschi, E, Pepe, M, Perrin-Terrin, M, Peruzzo, L, Petrov, P, Petrov, Y, Petrucci, F, Piandani, R, Piccini, M, Pinzino, J, Polenkevich, I, Pontisso, L, Potrebenikov, Y, Protopopescu, D, Raggi, M, Romano, A, Rubin, P, Ruggiero, G, Ryjov, V, Salamon, A, Santoni, C, Saracino, G, Sargeni, F, Schuchmann, S, Semenov, V, Sergi, A, Shaikhiev, A, Shkarovskiy, S, Soldi, D, Sugonyaev, V, Sozzi, M, Spadaro, T, Spinella, F, Sturgess, A, Swallow, J, Trilov, S, Valente, P, Velghe, B, Venditti, S, Vicini, P, Volpe, R, Vormstein, M, Wahl, H, Wanke, R, Wrona, B, Yushchenko, O, Zamkovsky, M, and Zinchenko, A
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Photon, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Mass scale, NA62 experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton, Standard Model, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare
Abstract: Fixed-target experiments present a complementary tool for studies of the beyond Standard Model physics in either direct searches for weakly coupled states in $\mathcal{O}(10^{7})$ − $\mathcal{O}(10^{9}) eV/ c^{2}$ mass scale or indirect searches for deviations in known processes induced by physics of much higher energy scales. The NA62 experiment dedicated to study of ultra-rare kaon decays is competitive on both these fronts thanks to its immense sensitivity and possibility of data-taking inbeam-dump mode,in which statistics of $\mathcal{O}(10^{16})\mathrm{POT}$ has been collected and another $\mathcal{O}(10^{18})\mathrm{POT}$ will follow in 2021-2023 run. This proceedings will present the published results, discuss the current status and show the future prospects of searches for exotic particles at NA62, specifically heavy neutral leptons, dark photons and axion-like particles.
Published: 2019

29. Searches for lepton number violating $K^+$ decays

Author: Tomáš Husek, D. T. Madigozhin, A. Sturgess, J. B. Dainton, Matteo Lupi, P. F. Dalpiaz, R. Marchevski, E. Gamberini, Jürgen Engelfried, T. Bache, G. Latino, Claudio Santoni, A. Filippi, A. I. Zinchenko, M. Medvedeva, J. R. Fry, E. Maurice, T. Capussela, A. Gianoli, Alessandro Lonardo, E. Cortina Gil, Roberto Piandani, Giuseppe Ruggiero, H. O. Danielsson, Roberto Guida, V. Kurochka, Luca Pontisso, M. Piccini, Yu. Potrebenikov, G. Lehmann Miotto, A. Kleimenova, Vladimir Ryjov, L. Federici, C. Graham, F. Bucci, D. Coward, B. Velghe, J. Carmignani, M. Boretto, L. Di Lella, Tommaso Spadaro, M. Vormstein, S. Schuchmann, V. Falaleev, M. Misheva, F. Costantini, N. Doble, Babette Döbrich, G. Mannocchi, G. D'Agostini, M. Pepe, A. Mapelli, B. Wrona, S. Giudici, P. Cenci, Fabrizio Petrucci, G. Saracino, O. Hutanu, C. J. Parkinson, David Hutchcroft, Emilio Leonardi, P. Rubin, Leander Litov, V. Kozhuharov, I. Polenkevich, M. Zamkovsky, A. Salamon, G. Khoriauli, Antonino Sergi, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, G. Anzivino, A. Mefodev, I. Mannelli, A P Ostankov, M. Koval, E. Iacopini, F. Brizioli, Roberta Arcidiacono, E. Gushchin, P. Lubrano, T. Numao, Paolo Valente, Matthew Noy, R. W. L. Jones, M. Perrin-Terrin, M. Sozzi, Helen F Heath, Ilaria Neri, Y. Petrov, F. Hahn, Johannes Bernhard, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, Sergei Fedotov, M. Lenti, F. Newson, N. A. Molokanova, R. Fantechi, N. De Simone, E. Pedreschi, G. Lamanna, S. Shkarovskiy, V. Palladino, A. Parenti, F. Spinella, A. Korotkova, A. Fucci, R. Lollini, Evgueni Goudzovski, M. Napolitano, E. Minucci, Georgi P. Georgiev, Viacheslav Duk, M. Mirra, F. Marchetto, Piero Vicini, Ernesto Migliore, C. Cerri, P. Lichard, A. M. Bragadireanu, S. Trilov, Roberto Ammendola, Cristina Biino, Mauro Raggi, B. Jenninger, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, M. Moulson, V. Fascianelli, Karol Kampf, V. Sugonyaev, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, L. Gatignon, S. Padolski, M. Corvino, D. Protopopescu, L. Bician, J. Swallow, Nicolas Lurkin, M. B. Brunetti, R. Aliberti, A. Norton, Andrea Biagioni, R. Volpe, A. Conovaloff, J. Kunze, M. Fiorini, D. Lomidze, O. Yushchenko, V. Kurshetsov, S. Kholodenko, B. Checcucci, P. Cooper, Paolo Massarotti, Rainer Wanke, E. Lari, A. Shaikhiev, Francesco Gonnella, Vladimir Kekelidze, Tomas Blazek, Mattia Barbanera, A. Cotta Ramusino, Jacopo Pinzino, S. Martellotti, V. Obraztsov, B. Angelucci, L. Iacobuzio, E. B. Holzer, Dave Britton, N. Estrada-Tristan, V. E. Semenov, A. Ceccucci, R. Page, Andrea Bizzeti, J. Jerhot, P. Petrov, H. D. Wahl, V. Cerny, E. Menichetti, A. Khotyantsev, D. Soldi, K. Massri, L. Fulton, F. Duval, Yu. G. Kudenko, A. Antonelli, L. Peruzzo, J. L. Fu, B. Bloch-Devaux, E. Imbergamo, S. Venditti, Z. Kucerova, Paul Laycock, S. Ghinescu, G. Lanfranchi, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), NA62, European Commission, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ambrosino, F., Capussela, T., Corvino, M., Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Mirra, M., Napolitano, M., Saracino, G., and UCL - SST/IRMP - Institut de recherche en mathématique et physique
Subjects: branching ratio: upper limit, K+: rare decay, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, NA62, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, High Energy Physics - Experiment, electron: pair production, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Economica, K+: branching ratio, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], K meson decay, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Electroweak interaction, lcsh:QC1-999, muon: pair production, lepton number violation, K+: semileptonic decay, K+: secondary beam, Particle Physics - Experiment, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, CERN Lab, S010.46, FOS: Physical sciences, kaons, S010:Desig=46, +pi-+2muon%2B%22">K+ --> pi- 2muon+, Partícules (Física nuclear), PE2_2, Violació CP (Física nuclear), 0103 physical sciences, Kaon decays, lepton number violation, K meson, K meson decay, 010306 general physics, lepton number: violation, Kaon decays, Lepton Number Violation, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, S010:Desig=19, CERN SPS, K meson, Lepton number, +pi-+electron+positron%22">K+ --> pi- electron positron, Kaon Physics, Lepton Flavour Violation, S010.19, lcsh:Physics, experimental results
Abstract: The NA62 experiment at CERN reports a search for the lepton number violating decays K+ -> pi(-)e(+)e(+) and K+ -> pi(-)mu(+)mu(+) using a data sample collected in 2017. No signals are observed, and upper limits on the branching fractions of these decays of 2.2 x 10(-10) and 4.2 x 10(-11) are obtained, respectively, at 90% confidence level. These upper limits improve on previously reported measurements by factors of 3 and 2, respectively., It is a pleasure to express our appreciation to the staff of the CERN laboratory and the technical staffs of the participating laboratories and universities for their efforts in the operation of the experiment and data processing. The cost of the experiment and its auxiliary systems was supported by the funding agencies of the Collaboration Institutes. We are particularly indebted to: F.R.S.-FNRS (Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS), Belgium; BMES (Ministry of Education, Youth and Science), Bulgaria; NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council), Canada; NRC (National Research Council Canada) contribution to TRIUMF, Canada; MEYS (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports), Czech Republic; BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) contracts 05H12UM5, 05H15UMCNA and 05H18UMCNA, Germany; INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Italy; MIUR (Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca), Italy; CONACyT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología), Mexico; IFA (Institute of Atomic Physics), Romania; INR-RAS (Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow, Russia; JINR (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research), Dubna, Russia; NRC (National Research Center) “Kurchatov Institute” and MESRF (Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation), Russia; MESRS (Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic), Slovakia; CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Switzerland; STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council), United Kingdom; NSF (National Science Foundation) Award Number 1506088, U.S.A.; ERC (European Research Council) “UniversaLepto” advanced grant 268062, “KaonLepton” starting grant 336581, Europe. Individuals have received support from: Charles University Research Center (UNCE/SCI/013), Czech Republic; Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR “Futuro in ricerca 2012” grant RBFR12JF2Z, Project GAP), Italy; Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR grants 18-32-00072, 18-32-00245), Russia; the Royal Society (grants UF100308, UF0758946), United Kingdom; STFC (Rutherford fellowships ST/J00412X/1, ST/M005798/1), United Kingdom; ERC (grants 268062, 336581 and starting grant 802836 “AxScale”).
Published: 2019

30. The NA62 GigaTracKer: a low mass high intensity beam 4D tracker with 65 ps time resolution on tracks

Author: Roberto Malaguti, E. Cortina Gil, B. Velghe, M. Morel, K. Poltorak, E. Gamberini, Fabrizio Petrucci, Augusto Ceccucci, Roberta Arcidiacono, H. Wahl, Luca Federici, G. Aglieri Rinella, S. Chiozzi, A. Kleimenova, Flavio Marchetto, Massimiliano Fiorini, G. Nuessle, D. Alvarez Feito, A. Gianoli, J. Noël, J. Degrange, J. Kaplon, Cristina Biino, E. Martin Albarran, H. O. Danielsson, M. Perrin-Terrin, A. Mapelli, L. Perktold, A. Cotta Ramusino, Matthew Noy, P. Petagna, Giuseppe Ruggiero, G. Romagnoli, S. Bonacini, E. Minucci, Alexander Kluge, Ernesto Migliore, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, NA62 experiment, Tracking (particle physics), 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Timing detectors, NA62, High Energy Physics - Experiment, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 03 medical and health sciences, Economica, PE2_2, 0302 clinical medicine, Optics, semiconductor detector: pixel, heat engineering, Detector cooling and thermo-stabilization, Particle tracking detectors, 0103 physical sciences, tracking detector, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Detectors and Experimental Techniques, physics.ins-det, Instrumentation, time resolution, Mathematical Physics, detector: design, activity report, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Pixel, Spectrometer, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Particle tracking detectors (Solid-state detectors), Measuring instrument, business, Particle Physics - Experiment, Beam (structure), performance
Abstract: International audience; The GigaTracKer (GTK) is the beam spectrometer of the CERN NA62 experiment. The detector features challenging design specifications, in particular a peak particle flux reaching up to 2.0 MHz/mm$^2$, a single hit time resolution smaller than 200 ps and, a material budget of 0.5% X$_0$ per tracking plane. To fulfill these specifications, novel technologies were especially employed in the domain of silicon hybrid time-stamping pixel technology and micro-channel cooling. This article describes the detector design and reports on the achieved performance.
Published: 2019

31. Searches for exotic particles at NA62

Author: Aliberti, R, Ambrosino, F, Ammendola, R, Angelucci, B, Antonelli, A, Anzivino, G, Arcidiacono, R, Bar-banera, M, Biagioni, A, Bician, L, Biino, C, Bizzeti, A, Blazek, T, Bloch-Devaux, B, Bonaiuto, V, Boretto, M, Bra-gadireanu, M, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, Brunetti, Mb, Bryman, D, Bucci, F, Capussela, T, Ceccucci, A, Cenci, P, Cerny, V, Cerri, C, Checcucci, B, Conovaloff, A, Cooper, P, Cortina Gil, E, Corvino, M, Costantini, F, Cotta Ramusino, A, Cow-ard, D, D’Agostini, G, Dainton, J, Dalpiaz, P, Danielsson, H, De Simone, N, Di Filippo, D, Di Lella, L, Doble, N, Do-brich, B, Duval, F, Duk, V, Engelfried, J, Enik, T, Estrada-Tristan, N, Falaleev, V, Fantechi, R, Fascianelli, V, Federici, L, Fedotov, S, Filippi, A, Fiorini, M, Fry, J, Fu, J, Fucci, A, Fulton, L, Gamberini, E, Gatignon, L, Georgiev, G, Gh-inescu, S, Gianoli, A, Giorgi, M, Giudici, S, Gonnella, F, Goudzovski, E, Graham, C, Guida, R, Gushchin, E, Hahn, F, Heath, H, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Imbergamo, E, Jenninger, B, Kampf, K, Kekelidze, V, Kholodenko, S, Khoriauli, G, Khotyantsev, A, Kleimenova, A, Korotkova, A, Koval, M, Kozhuharov, V, Kucerova, Z, Kudenko, Y, Kunze, J, Kurochka, V, Kurshetsov, V, Lanfranchi, G, Lamanna, G, Latino, G, Laycock, P, Lazzeroni, C, Lenti, M, Lehmann Miotto, G, Leonardi, E, Lichard, P, Litov, L, Lollini, R, Lomidze, D, Lonardo, A, Lubrano, P, Lupi, M, Lurkin, N, Madigozhin, D, Mannelli, I, Mannocchi, G, Mapelli, A, Marchetto, F, Marchevski, R, Martellotti, S, Massarotti, P, Massri, K, Maurice, E, Medvedeva, M, Mefodev, A, Menichetti, E, Migliore, E, Min-ucci, E, Mirra, M, Misheva, M, Molokanova, N, Moulson, M, Movchan, S, Napolitano, M, Neri, I, Newson, F, Norton, A, Noy, M, Numao, T, Obraztsov, V, Ostankov, A, Padolski, S, Page, R, Palladino, V, Parkinson, C, Pedreschi, E, Pepe, M, Perrin-Terrin, M, Peruzzo, L, Petrov, P, Petrucci, F, Piandani, R, Piccini, M, Pinzino, J, Polenkevich, I, Pontisso, L, Potrebenikov, Y, Protopopescu, D, Raggi, M, Romano, A, Rubin, P, Ruggiero, G, Ryjov, V, Salamon, A, San-toni, C, Saracino, G, Sargeni, F, Semenov, V, Sergi, A, Shaikhiev, A, Shkarovskiy, S, Soldi, D, Sougonyaev, V, Sozzi, M, Spadaro, T, Spinella, F, Sturgess, A, Swallow, J, Trilov, S, Valente, P, Velghe, B, Venditti, S, Vicini, P, Volpe, R, Vormstein, M, Wahl, H, Wanke, R, Wrona, B, Yushchenko, O, Zamkovsky, M, and Zinchenko, A
Subjects: Physics, Range (particle radiation), Photon, Large Hadron Collider, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, NA62 experiment, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Beam energy, Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton
Abstract: Fixed target experiments are a useful tool in the search for very weakly coupled particles in the MeV-GeV range, which are of interest, e.g. as potential dark-matter mediators. The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is currently taking data for rare kaon decay measurements. Due to the high beam energy and hermetic detector coverage, NA62 also has the opportunity to directly search for a multitude of long-lived beyond-Standard-Model particles, such as dark photons, dark scalars, axion-like particles, and heavy neutral leptons. We review the status of these searches and give prospects for future data taking at NA62.
Published: 2019

32. Search for $K^+\to \pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$ at CERN

Author: Temur Enik and Piero Vicini
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Branching fraction, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Domain (ring theory), High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Sensitivity (control systems), NA62 experiment, Measure (mathematics), Standard Model, Bar (unit)
Abstract: The decay $K^+\to \pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$, with a very precisely predicted branching ratio of less than $10^{-10}$, is one of the best candidates to reveal indirect effects of new physics at the highest mass scales. The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is designed to measure the branching ratio of the $K^+\to \pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$ with a decay-in-flight technique, novel for this channel. NA62 took data in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Statistics collected in 2016 allows NA62 to reach the Standard Model sensitivity for $K^+\to \pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$, entering the domain of $10^{-10}$ single event sensitivity and showing the proof of principle of the experiment. The data analysis is reviewed and the preliminary result from the 2016 data set presented.
Published: 2019

33. Heavy Neutral Lepton Search at NA62

Author: Aliberti, R, Ambrosino, F, Ammendola, R, Angelucci, B, Antonelli, A, Anzivino, G, Arcidiacono, R, Barbanera, M, Biagioni, A, Bician, L, Biino, C, Bizzeti, A, Blazek, T, Bloch-Devaux, B, Bonaiuto, V, Boretto, M, Bragadireanu, M, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, Brunetti, Mb, Bryman, D, Bucci, F, Capussela, T, Ceccucci, A, Cenci, P, Cerny, V, Cerri, C, Checcucci, B, Conovaloff, A, Cooper, P, Cortina Gil, E, Corvino, M, Costantini, F, Cotta Ramusino, A, Coward, D, D’Agostini, G, Dainton, J, Dalpiaz, P, Danielsson, H, De Simone, N, Di Filippo, D, Di Lella, L, Doble, N, Dobrich, B, Duval, F, Duk, V, Engelfried, J, Enik, T, Estrada-Tristan, N, Falaleev, V, Fantechi, R, Fascianelli, V, Federici, L, Fedotov, S, Filippi, A, Fiorini, M, Fry, J, Fu, J, Fucci, A, Fulton, L, Gamberini, E, Gatignon, L, Georgiev, G, Ghinescu, S, Gianoli, A, Giorgi, M, Giudici, S, Gonnella, F, Goudzovski, E, Graham, C, Guida, R, Gushchin, E, Hahn, F, Heath, H, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Imbergamo, E, Jenninger, B, Kampf, K, Kekelidze, V, Kholodenko, S, Khoriauli, G, Khotyantsev, A, Kleimenova, A, Korotkova, A, Koval, M, Kozhuharov, V, Kucerova, Z, Kudenko, Y, Kunze, J, Kurochka, V, Kurshetsov, V, Lanfranchi, G, Lamanna, G, Latino, G, Laycock, P, Lazzeroni, C, Lenti, M, Lehmann Miotto, G, Leonardi, E, Lichard, P, Litov, L, Lollini, R, Lomidze, D, Lonardo, A, Lubrano, P, Lupi, M, Lurkin, N, Madigozhin, D, Mannelli, I, Mannocchi, G, Mapelli, A, Marchetto, F, Marchevski, R, Martellotti, S, Massarotti, P, Massri, K, Maurice, E, Medvedeva, M, Mefodev, A, Menichetti, E, Migliore, E, Minucci, E, Mirra, M, Misheva, M, Molokanova, N, Moulson, M, Movchan, S, Napolitano, M, Neri, I, Newson, F, Norton, A, Noy, M, Numao, T, Obraztsov, V, Ostankov, A, Padolski, S, Page, R, Palladino, V, Parkinson, C, Pedreschi, E, Pepe, M, Perrin-Terrin, M, Peruzzo, L, Petrov, P, Petrucci, F, Piandani, R, Piccini, M, Pinzino, J, Polenkevich, I, Pontisso, L, Potrebenikov, Y, Protopopescu, D, Raggi, M, Romano, A, Rubin, P, Ruggiero, G, Ryjov, V, Salamon, A, Santoni, C, Saracino, G, Sargeni, F, Semenov, V, Sergi, A, Shaikhiev, A, Shkarovskiy, S, Soldi, D, Sougonyaev, V, Sozzi, M, Spadaro, T, Spinella, F, Sturgess, A, Swallow, J, Trilov, S, Valente, P, Velghe, B, Venditti, S, Vicini, P, Volpe, R, Vormstein, M, Wahl, H, Wanke, R, Wrona, B, Yushchenko, O, Zamkovsky, M, and Zinchenko, A
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Range (particle radiation), Large Hadron Collider, Minimum bias, Settore FIS/04, Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Production (computer science), Nuclear Experiment, NA62 experiment, Lepton
Abstract: In this paper we present the results of the search for heavy neutral lepton (HNL) production in charged kaon decays using a data sample collected with a minimum bias trigger by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2015. Upper limits at the $10^{-7}$–$10^{-6}$ level are established on the elements $|U_{e4}|$ and $|U_{\mu 4}|$ of the extended neutrino mixing matrix for HNL masses in the range 170–448 $\text {MeV/c}^2$ and 250–376 $\text {MeV/c}^2$, respectively.
Published: 2019

34. Search for $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$ at NA62

Author: F. Newson, Paul Laycock, S. Shkarovskiy, J. B. Dainton, L. Iacobuzio, Emilio Leonardi, I. Polenkevich, Yu. Kudenko, M. Medvedeva, F. Costantini, A. Mefodev, I. Mannelli, G. Lanfranchi, M. Perrin-Terrin, Tommaso Spadaro, Tomáš Husek, A. Salamon, D. T. Madigozhin, F. Brizioli, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, K. Massri, M. Lenti, Matteo Lupi, E. Cortina Gil, Roberto Piandani, G. Khoriauli, Paolo Valente, L. Bician, Luca Federici, J. Swallow, G. Saracino, Georgi P. Georgiev, J. R. Fry, Viacheslav Duk, C. Cerri, Dave Britton, N. Estrada-Tristan, Claudio Santoni, A. Filippi, S. Trilov, Roberto Ammendola, E. Imbergamo, A. Ceccucci, B. Checcucci, T. Capussela, Andrea Bizzeti, A. Gianoli, Christopher John Parkinson, M. Sozzi, Angelo Biagioni, J. L. Fu, N. Doble, D. Protopopescu, J. Pinzino, F. Spinella, Ilaria Neri, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, Vladimir Kekelidze, G. Anzivino, R. Lollini, Emilie Maurice, A. Conovaloff, Nicolas Lurkin, M. B. Brunetti, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, Sergei Fedotov, E. Gamberini, R. Aliberti, H. D. Wahl, A. Norton, H. O. Danielsson, A. Sturgess, Ernesto Migliore, Vladimir Ryjov, D. Coward, V. Sougonyaev, A. Mapelli, Luca Pontisso, S. Giudici, P. Lubrano, P. S. Cooper, B. Angelucci, R. D. page, Alessandro Lonardo, G. Lamanna, M. Koval, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, Yu. Potrebenikov, Giuseppe Latino, Francesco Gonnella, V. Kurochka, R. Guida, P. F. Dalpiaz, Tomas Blazek, M. Fiorini, L. Di Lella, V. Kozhuharov, J. Kunze, M. Zamkovsky, Cristina Biino, A. Cotta Ramusino, S. Ghinescu, Jürgen Engelfried, M. Bragadireanu, T. Numao, D. E. Hutchcroft, S. Padolski, A. Korotkova, N. A. Molokanova, O. Yushchenko, M. Napolitano, N. De Simone, V. Kurshetsov, Mauro Piccini, Fabrizio Petrucci, V. Falaleev, S. Martellotti, Leander Litov, A. Kleimenova, S. Kholodenko, B. Wrona, Paolo Massarotti, P. Petrov, M. Pepe, Mattia Barbanera, A. Fucci, M. Noy, A. Khotyantsev, M. Moulson, Karol Kampf, V. Cerny, Rainer Wanke, E. Menichetti, P. Rubin, L. Gatignon, M. Corvino, V. Obraztsov, V. E. Semenov, Evgueni Goudzovski, B. Velghe, B. Jenninger, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, G. Mannocchi, F. Hahn, R. Marchevski, Antonino Sergi, E. Minucci, D. Soldi, A.I. Zinchenko, V. Fascianelli, G. D'Agostini, G. Lehmann Miotto, C. Graham, Babette Döbrich, O. Hutanu, V. Palladino, F. Marchetto, Piero Vicini, P. Lichard, E. Iacopini, L. Fulton, F. Duval, David Lomidze, E. Pedreschi, M. Mirra, G. Ruggiero, M. Boretto, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, M. Vormstein, P. Cenci, A P Ostankov, R. Volpe, Roberta Arcidiacono, F. Bucci, E. Gushchin, Milena Misheva, R. Fantechi, A. Antonelli, L. Peruzzo, B. Bloch-Devaux, Mauro Raggi, Helen F Heath, and Z. Kucerova
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Branching fraction, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Pi, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Sensitivity (control systems), Atomic physics, NA62 experiment, Measure (mathematics), Particle Physics - Experiment, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Bar (unit)
Abstract: The decay $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu\overline{\nu}$ has a very precisely predicted branching ratio ($\sim 8\times 10^{-11}$) and it is one of the best candidates to reveal indirect effects of new physics. The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is designed to measure the branching ratio of the $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu\overline{\nu}$ with a decay-in-flight technique, novel for this channel. NA62 has taken data firstly in 2016 with the aim to reach the SM sensitivity. It has then collected 10 times more statistics in 2017 and a similar amount of data is expected from the 2018 run. The preliminary result on the full 2016 data set and the prospects for future developments are presented here.
Published: 2018

35. The NA62 GigaTracker

Author: Massimiliano Fiorini, E. Cortina Gil, Paolo Petagna, L. Perktold, J. Degrange, J. Kaplon, E. Minucci, Alexander Kluge, S. Chiozzi, J. Noël, M. Perrin-Terrin, Roberta Arcidiacono, G. Romagnoli, A. Ceccucci, M. Morel, A. Cotta Ramusino, E. Gamberini, F. Petrucci, B. Velghe, G. Ruggiero, Matthew Noy, F. Marchetto, S. Bonacini, K. Poltorak, H. Wahl, G. Aglieri Rinella, D. Alvarez Feito, A. Gianoli, Cristina Biino, and A. Mapelli
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Silicon detector, Silicon, Socio-culturale, chemistry.chemical_element, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, NA62, Particle detector, 99-00, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, GigaTracker, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, business.industry, Detector, 00-01, Semiconductor detector, GTK, chemistry, Measuring instrument, business, Ultra fast
Abstract: The GigaTracker is a hybrid silicon pixel detector built for the NA62 experiment aiming at measuring the branching fraction of the ultra-rare kaon decay K+→π+νν¯ at the CERN SPS. The detector has to track particles in a beam with a flux reaching 1.3 MHz/mm2 and provide single-hit timing with 200 ps RMS resolution for a total material budget of less than 0.5% X0 per station. The tracker comprises three 60.8 mm×27 mm stations installed in vacuum (∼10$^{−6}$mbar) and cooled with liquid C6F14 circulating through micro-channels etched inside a few hundred micron thick silicon plates. Each station is composed of a 200 μm thick silicon sensor read out by 2×5 custom 100 μm thick ASICs, called TDCPix. Each chip contains 40×45 asynchronous pixels, 300 μm×300 μm each and is instrumented with 100 ps bin time-to-digital converters. In order to cope with the high rate, the TDCPix is equipped with four 3.2 Gb/s serialisers sending out the data. We will describe the detector and the results from the 2014 and 2015 NA62 runs.
Published: 2017

36. Search for K+→π+vv¯ at CERN

Author: Aliberti, R, Ambrosino, F, Ammendola, R, Angelucci, B, Antonelli, A, Anzivino, G, Arcidiacono, R, Barbanera, M, Biagioni, A, Bician, L, Biino, C, Bizzeti, A, Blazek, T, Bloch-Devaux, B, Bonaiuto, V, Boretto, M, Bragadireanu, M, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, Brunetti, Mb, Bryman, D, Bucci, F, Capussela, T, Ceccucci, A, Cenci, P, Cerny, V, Cerri, C, Checcucci, B, Conovaloff, A, Cooper, P, Cortina Gil, E, Corvino, M, Costantini, F, Cotta Ramusino, A, Coward, D, D’Agostini, G, Dainton, J, Dalpiaz, P, Danielsson, H, De Simone, N, Di Filippo, D, Di Lella, L, Doble, N, Dobrich, B, Duval, F, Duk, V, Engelfried, J, Enik, T, Estrada-Tristan, N, Falaleev, V, Fantechi, R, Fascianelli, V, Federici, L, Fedotov, S, Filippi, A, Fiorini, M, Fry, J, Fu, J, Fucci, A, Fulton, L, Gamberini, E, Gatignon, L, Georgiev, G, Ghinescu, S, Gianoli, A, Giorgi, M, Giudici, S, Gonnella, F, Goudzovski, E, Graham, C, Guida, R, Gushchin, E, Hahn, F, Heath, H, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Imbergamo, E, Jenninger, B, Kampf, K, Kekelidze, V, Kholodenko, S, Khoriauli, G, Khotyantsev, A, Kleimenova, A, Korotkova, A, Koval, M, Kozhuharov, V, Kucerova, Z, Kudenko, Y, Kunze, J, Kurochka, V, Kurshetsov, V, Lanfranchi, G, Lamanna, G, Latino, G, Laycock, P, Lazzeroni, C, Lenti, M, Lehmann Miotto, G, Leonardi, E, Lichard, P, Litov, L, Lollini, R, Lomidze, D, Lonardo, A, Lubrano, P, Lupi, M, Lurkin, N, Madigozhin, D, Mannelli, I, Mannocchi, G, Mapelli, A, Marchetto, F, Marchevski, R, Martellotti, S, Massarotti, P, Massri, K, Maurice, E, Medvedeva, M, Mefodev, A, Menichetti, E, Migliore, E, Minucci, E, Mirra, M, Misheva, M, Molokanova, N, Moulson, M, Movchan, S, Napolitano, M, Neri, I, Newson, F, Norton, A, Noy, M, Numao, T, Obraztsov, V, Ostankov, A, Padolski, S, Page, R, Palladino, V, Parkinson, C, Pedreschi, E, Pepe, M, Perrin-Terrin, M, Peruzzo, L, Petrov, P, Petrucci, F, Piandani, R, Piccini, M, Pinzino, J, Polenkevich, I, Pontisso, L, Potrebenikov, Y, Protopopescu, D, Raggi, M, Romano, A, Rubin, P, Ruggiero, G, Ryjov, V, Salamon, A, Santoni, C, Saracino, G, Sargeni, F, Semenov, V, Sergi, A, Shaikhiev, A, Shkarovskiy, S, Soldi, D, Sougonyaev, V, Sozzi, M, Spadaro, T, Spinella, F, Sturgess, A, Swallow, J, Trilov, S, Valente, P, Velghe, B, Venditti, S, Vicini, P, Volpe, R, Vormstein, M, Wahl, H, Wanke, R, Wrona, B, Yushchenko, O, Zamkovsky, M, and Zinchenko, A
Subjects: Physics, History, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Branching fraction, Settore FIS/04, Physics beyond the Standard Model, NA62 experiment, Measure (mathematics), Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Computer Science Applications, Education, Standard Model, Data analysis, Event (probability theory)
Abstract: The decay K + → π + v v ¯ , with a very precisely predicted branching ratio of less than 10−10, is one of the best candidates to reveal indirect effects of new physics at the highest mass scales. The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is designed to measure the branching ratio of the K + → π + v v ¯ with a decay-in-flight technique, novel for this channel. NA62 took data in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Statistics collected in 2016 allows NA62 to reach the Standard Model sensitivity for K + → π + v v ¯ , entering the domain of 10−10 single event sensitivity and showing the proof of principle of the experiment. The analysis data is reviewed and the preliminary result from the 2016 data set presented.
Published: 2020

37. New veto hodoscope ANTI-0 for the NA62 experiment at CERN

Author: V. Sugonyaev, H. O. Danielsson, P. A. Giudici, V. Obraztsov, S. Kholodenko, R. Wanke, O. Gavrishchuk, I. Mannelli, M. Kholodenko, and Evgueni Goudzovski
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Veto, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Nuclear physics, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Hodoscope, 0103 physical sciences, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Nuclear Experiment, physics.ins-det, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Halo
Abstract: The NA62 experiment is a fixed-target experiment at CERN SPS. The main goal of the experiment is to measure the branching ratio of the ultra-rare kaon decay $K^{+}\to\pi^{+}\nu\bar\nu$. The NA62 detector allows also to study other rare kaon decays and to search for very weakly coupled particles of MeV-GeV mass-scale. The new ANTI-0 hodoscope is proposed and designed to veto events with charged halo particles entering the decay volume. It is now being assembled at CERN. The detector design, the performance simulation and the results of measurements with cosmic rays and test beams for the individual elements are presented. The commissioning and the first run of data-taking is scheduled for after the end of LS2 long shutdown (April 2021)., Comment: INSTR20: Instrumentation for Colliding Beam Physics
Published: 2020

38. Performance of the NA62 ring imaging Cherenkov detector

Author: 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, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, Brunetti, Mb, Bryman, D, Bucci, F, Capussela, T, Carmignani, J, Ceccucci, A, Cenci, P, Cerny, V, Cerri, C, Checcucci, B, Conovaloff, A, Cooper, P, Cortina Gil, E, Corvino, M, Costantini, F, Cotta Ramusino, A, Coward, D, D’Agostini, G, Dainton, J, Dalpiaz, P, Danielsson, H, De Simone, N, Di Filippo, D, Di Lella, L, Doble, N, Dobrich, B, Duval, F, Duk, V, Engelfried, J, Enik, T, Estrada-Tristan, N, Falaleev, V, Fantechi, R, Fascianelli, V, Federici, L, Fedotov, S, Filippi, A, Fiorini, M, Fry, J, Fu, J, Fucci, A, Fulton, L, Gamberini, E, Gatignon, L, Georgiev, G, Ghinescu, S, Gianoli, A, Giorgi, M, Giudici, S, Gonnella, F, Goudzovski, E, Graham, C, Guida, R, Gushchin, E, Hahn, F, Heath, H, Holzer, Eb, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Imbergamo, E, Jenninger, B, Jerhot, J, Jones, Rw, Kampf, K, Kekelidze, V, Kholodenko, S, Khoriauli, G, Khotyantsev, A, Kleimenova, A, Korotkova, A, Koval, M, Kozhuharov, V, Kucerova, Z, Kudenko, Y, Kunze, J, Kurochka, V, Kurshetsov, V, Lanfranchi, G, Lamanna, G, Lari, E, Latino, G, Laycock, P, Lazzeroni, C, Lenti, M, Lehmann Miotto, G, Leonardi, E, Lichard, P, Litov, L, Lollini, R, Lomidze, D, Lonardo, A, Lubrano, P, Lupi, M, Lurkin, N, Madigozhin, D, Mannelli, I, Mannocchi, G, Mapelli, A, Marchetto, F, Marchevski, R, Martellotti, S, Massarotti, P, Massri, K, Maurice, E, Medvedeva, M, Mefodev, A, Menichetti, E, Migliore, E, Minucci, E, Mirra, M, Misheva, M, Molokanova, N, Moulson, M, Movchan, S, Napolitano, M, Neri, I, Newson, F, Norton, A, Noy, M, Numao, T, Obraztsov, V, Ostankov, A, Padolski, S, Page, R, Palladino, V, Parenti, A, Parkinson, C, Pedreschi, E, Pepe, M, Perrin-Terrin, M, Peruzzo, L, Petrov, P, Petrov, Y, Petrucci, F, Piandani, R, Piccini, M, Pinzino, J, Polenkevich, I, Pontisso, L, Potrebenikov, Y, Protopopescu, D, Raggi, M, Romano, A, Rubin, P, Ruggiero, G, Ryjov, V, Salamon, A, Santoni, C, Saracino, G, Sargeni, F, Schuchmann, S, Semenov, V, Sergi, A, Shaikhiev, A, Shkarovskiy, S, Soldi, D, Sugonyaev, V, Sozzi, M, Spadaro, T, Spinella, F, Sturgess, A, Swallow, J, Trilov, S, Valente, P, Velghe, B, Venditti, S, Vicini, P, Volpe, R, Vormstein, M, Wahl, H, Wanke, R, Wrona, B, Yushchenko, O, Zamkovsky, M, and Zinchenko, A
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Range (particle radiation), Large Hadron Collider, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, Charged particle, Particle identification, Ring-imaging Cherenkov detector, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, RICH detectors, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Kaon decays, Instrumentation, 010306 general physics
Abstract: The Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector of the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is a key element of particle identification in the NA62 experimental strategy. According to the NA62 requirements, the RICH identifies π + and μ + in the momentum range between 15 and 35 GeV/c with a muon rejection factor of O(10 2 ), measures the arrival time of charged particles with a precision better than 100 ps and is one of the main components of the NA62 trigger system. After the commissioning in 2014–2015, the RICH detector has been successfully operated during the 2016, 2017 and 2018 data taking periods of NA62. The main design aspects and operational characteristics of the NA62 RICH are described and results on its performance, directly measured with data, are presented.
Published: 2020

39. Microfabricated silicon substrates for pixel detectors assembly and thermal management a.k.a. Silicon Microchannel Cooling Plates

Author: A. Mapelli
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Microchannel, Silicon, Pixel, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Microfluidics, chemistry.chemical_element, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Upgrade, chemistry, 0103 physical sciences, Optoelectronics, business, Instrumentation
Abstract: At CERN, the Detector Technologies (DT) group of the Experimental Physics (EP) department is actively investigating a number of innovative solutions for heat management and detector module assembly in HEP experiments. Among these, recent research carried out at EP-DT has focused on the development of microfluidic devices to cool silicon pixel detectors. In this respect, continuous advances in microengineering have opened the door to smaller and more efficient cooling devices capable of handling increasing power densities with a minimum mass penalty. In 2014, the NA62 experiment has pioneered the use of a silicon microfluidic system with single-phase liquid C 6F14 for the thermal management of its GigaTracKer (GTK) pixel detectors. Following the NA62 success, LHCb became the first LHC experiment to adopt a similar solution. The future upgrade of the LHCb Vertex Locator (VELO) will combine multiple silicon plates with embedded microchannels with an evaporative CO2 system to cool fifty-two pixel detector modules dissipating a total of about 2 kW. This paper will present the implementation of this novel approach for the construction and thermal management of the NA62 GTK and LHCb VELO pixel detectors. Future developments such as 3D-printed microfluidics and microchannels embedded on monolithic pixel detectors will also be discussed.
Published: 2020

40. The role of the NA62 RICH in the BR(K+→π+νν̄) measurement

Author: F. Brizioli, N. Estrada-Tristan, F. Bucci, Andrea Bizzeti, A. Piluso, G. Anzivino, Antonio Cassese, Mauro Piccini, E. Iacopini, Jürgen Engelfried, Mattia Barbanera, A. Papi, M. Bizzarri, E. Imbergamo, F. Maletta, Roberto Ciaranfi, V. Carassiti, Roberto Piandani, R. Lollini, G. Scolieri, Viacheslav Duk, C. Campeggi, M. Pepe, Giuseppe Latino, M. Lenti, D. Aisa, R. Volpe, and P. Cenci
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Range (particle radiation), Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, Measure (mathematics), Particle identification, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Calorimeter, Momentum, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Pion, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation
Abstract: The NA62 experiment aims to measure the B R ( K + → π + ν ν ) with a 10% precision. One of the main backgrounds comes from the decay K + → μ + ν , therefore a highly powerful pion/muon separation is needed. The NA62 RICH, together with the calorimeter system, provides an accurate particle identification which has been essential to obtain the first results of the NA62 K + → π + ν ν analysis, based on 2016 data. Two different algorithms have been exploited which, used in combination, allowed to get a pion reconstruction and identification efficiency of 75%, with a muon suppression factor of about 500, in the momentum range 15–35 GeV/c.
Published: 2020

41. L0TP+: the Upgrade of the NA62 Level-0 Trigger Processor

Author: G. Lamanna, M. Sozzi, Piero Vicini, Luca Pontisso, Francesca Lo Cicero, Francesco Simula, Roberto Ammendola, Alessandro Lonardo, Andrea Salamon, Roberto Piandani, Andrea Biagioni, D. Soldi, Paolo Cretaro, Ottorino Frezza, and Andrea Ciardiello
Subjects: Virtex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Firmware, business.industry, Computer science, Physics, QC1-999, Control reconfiguration, computer.software_genre, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, Upgrade, High-level synthesis, Embedded system, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Field-programmable gate array, business, computer, PCI Express
Abstract: The L0TP+ initiative is aimed at the upgrade of the FPGA-based Level-0 Trigger Processor (L0TP) of the NA62 experiment at CERN for the post-LS2 data taking, which is expected to happen at 100% of design beam intensity, corresponding to about 3.3 × 1012 protons per pulse on the beryllium target used to produce the kaons beam. Although tests performed at the end of 2018 showed a substantial robustness of the L0TP system also at full beam intensity, there are several reasons to motivate such an upgrade: i) avoid FPGA platform obsolescence, ii) make room for improvements in the firmware design leveraging a more capable FPGA device, iii) add new functionalities, iv) support the 4 beam intensity increase foreseen in future experiment upgrades. We singled out the Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ VCU118 development board as the ideal platform for the project. L0TP+ seamless integration into the current NA62 TDAQ system and exact matching of L0TP functionalities represent the main requirements and focus of the project; nevertheless, the final design will include additional features, such as a PCIe RDMA engine to enable processing on CPU and GPU accelerators, and the partial reconfiguration of trigger firmware starting from a high level language description (C/C++). The latter capability is enabled by modern High Level Synthesis (HLS) tools, but to what extent this methodology can be applied to perform complex tasks in the L0 trigger, with its stringent latency requirements and the limits imposed by single FPGA resources, is currently being investigated. As a test case for this scenario we considered the online reconstruction of the RICH detector rings on an HLS generated module, using a dedicated primitives data stream with PM hits IDs. Besides, the chosen platform supports the Virtex Ultrascale+ FPGA wide I/O capabilities, allowing for straightforward integration of primitive streams from additional sub-detectors in order to improve the performance of the trigger.
Published: 2020

42. Search for K + → π + ν ν ̄ $K^{+}\rightarrow \pi ^{+}\nu \bar \nu $ at CERN

Author: Massimo Lenti and Piero Vicini
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Condensed Matter Physics, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, Measure (mathematics), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Standard Model, 0103 physical sciences, Sensitivity (control systems), Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 010306 general physics, Bar (unit)
Abstract: The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS was designed to measure the $BR(K^{+}\rightarrow \pi ^{+}\nu \bar \nu )$ with a decay-in-flight technique. NA62 took data in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Statistics collected in 2016 allowed NA62 to reach the Standard Model sensitivity and to show the proof of principle of the experiment. The preliminary result from the 2016 data set is presented.
Published: 2018

43. The Gigatracker detector of the NA62 experiment at CERN SPS

Author: M. Perrin-Terrin, Paolo Petagna, E. Cortina Gil, S. Chiozzi, Cristina Biino, H. Wahl, L. Perktold, B. Velghe, G. Aglieri Rinella, J. Degrange, J. Kaplon, Massimiliano Fiorini, E. Gamberini, A. Kleimenova, F. Marchetto, D. Alvarez Feito, A. Gianoli, A. Mapelli, Alexander Kluge, Roberta Arcidiacono, J. Noël, L. Federici, Matthew Noy, F. Petrucci, M. Morel, Ernesto Migliore, G. Romagnoli, A. Ceccucci, Giuseppe Ruggiero, E. Minucci, A. Cotta Ramusino, K. Poltorak, S. Bonacini, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Pixel detectors, Silicon, Hadron, Micro cooling channels, chemistry.chemical_element, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Gigatracker, NA62, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Nuclear physics, 03 medical and health sciences, Tracking detectors, 0302 clinical medicine, Data acquisition, semiconductor detector: pixel, +pi%2B+neutrino+antineutrino%22">K+ --> pi+ neutrino antineutrino, 0103 physical sciences, GTK, Hybrid silicon detectors, Material budget, Silicon detectors, Time resolution, Instrumentation, tracking detector, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, detector: design, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, background, Detector, Ambientale, K+: decay, chemistry, High Energy Physics::Experiment, branching ratio, Beam (structure)
Abstract: The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is a fixed target experiment designed to measure the branching ratio of the ultra-rare Kaon decay K + → π + ν ν . The experiment uses an high-momentum K + decay in-flight technique to increase the rejection power of the main background: K + → π + π 0 . The Gigatracker is a hybrid silicon pixel detector, exposed to a 750 MHz high-energy charged hadron beam, built to give an accurate measurement of K + momentum and direction together with an high precision measurement of the beam particle arrival time (115 ps RMS resolution per plane). It comprises three stations placed right before the K + decay region and inserted around two achromats. The detector works in vacuum ( ∼ 1 0 − 6 mbar ) at about − 10 ° C . Each station is made of a 200 μ m thick silicon sensor readout by 10 TDCPix, custom 100 μ m thick ASICs, and cooled by an innovative double circuit silicon micro-channel cooling system. All these parts are designed to minimize the total material budget which, in the final detector, amounts to less than 1.5% X 0 for the three stations. In order to sustain the high rate of incoming particles, each TDCPix, operating in a self triggered mode, is equipped with four 3.2 Gb/s serializers sending data to the detector DAQ system based on a read-out card per TDCPix chip sending trigger-matched hits to 6 PC servers. I will describe the whole detector and present some of the results from data collected during the 2016 NA62 runs.
Published: 2018

44. Search for heavy neutral lepton production in K+ decays

Author: K. Massri, L. Di Lella, M. Misheva, M. Perrin-Terrin, V. Sugonyaev, H. O. Danielsson, L. Peruzzo, S. Giudici, B. Bloch-Devaux, L. Bician, Luca Federici, J. Swallow, B. Wrona, E. Imbergamo, G. D'Agostini, M. Pepe, Luca Pontisso, R. Aliberti, J. R. Fry, V. Palladino, Francesco Gonnella, G. Saracino, O. Hutanu, F. Bucci, A. Norton, Tomas Blazek, A. Fucci, A. Cotta Ramusino, M. Boretto, A. Conovaloff, Z. Kucerova, D. Soldi, G. Mannocchi, P. Cenci, Piero Vicini, Vladimir Ryjov, I. Mannelli, A. Mefodev, Alessandro Lonardo, P. Lichard, S. Movchan, L. Gatignon, A. Mapelli, J. Kunze, F. Ambrosino, T. Numao, Paolo Valente, L. Fulton, F. Duval, F. Hahn, Paul Laycock, V. Kekelidze, E. Cortina Gil, A. Salamon, G. Khoriauli, A. Korotkova, M. Koval, M. Corvino, Jürgen Engelfried, Roberto Piandani, D. Coward, Dave Britton, N. Estrada-Tristan, G. Anzivino, Leander Litov, F. Brizioli, A. Kleimenova, A. Romano, Fausto Sargeni, M. Sozzi, D. Lomidze, Yu. G. Kudenko, Evgueni Goudzovski, S. Padolski, A P Ostankov, Matthew Noy, R. Fantechi, Ilaria Neri, P. Petrov, O. Yushchenko, Cristina Biino, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, Andrea Bizzeti, T. Enik, Douglas Bryman, Sergei Fedotov, Cristina Lazzeroni, D. Protopopescu, Nicolas Lurkin, M. B. Brunetti, A. Khotyantsev, B. Velghe, Mattia Barbanera, V. Kurochka, B. Jenninger, A. Antonelli, V. Kurshetsov, G. Lanfranchi, A. Zinchenko, S. Kholodenko, M. Vormstein, R. Wanke, P. F. Dalpiaz, Mario Giorgi, D. Di Filippo, B. Checcucci, V. Cerny, G. Latino, P. Cooper, Andrea Biagioni, R. Volpe, G. Lamanna, E. Gamberini, D. Madigozhin, Georgi P. Georgiev, Viacheslav Duk, E. Menichetti, V. Kozhuharov, M. Fiorini, S. Martellotti, M. Zamkovsky, A. Filippi, Roberto Ammendola, P. Lubrano, B. Angelucci, F. Spinella, R. Lollini, T. Spadaro, Ernesto Migliore, H. D. Wahl, M. Piccini, N. Doble, David Hutchcroft, S. Trilov, R. Page, E. Maurice, Helen F Heath, V. Obraztsov, A. Sturgess, N. De Simone, C. Cerri, V. E. Semenov, A. M. Bragadireanu, P. Rubin, Paolo Massarotti, M. Moulson, F. Marchetto, Karol Kampf, N. A. Molokanova, M. Napolitano, J. Pinzino, E. Iacopini, Mauro Raggi, J. L. Fu, S. Venditti, A. Shaikhiev, S. Ghinescu, Claudio Santoni, T. Capussela, A. Gianoli, Roberto Guida, F. Petrucci, Tomáš Husek, Yu. Potrebenikov, Matteo Lupi, R. Marchevski, Antonino Sergi, G. Lehmann Miotto, C. Graham, V. Falaleev, M. Lenti, Babette Döbrich, F. Newson, C. J. Parkinson, S. Shkarovskiy, E. Minucci, J. B. Dainton, V. Fascianelli, L. Iacobuzio, Emilio Leonardi, I. Polenkevich, M. Medvedeva, Roberta Arcidiacono, E. Gushchin, Giuseppe Ruggiero, A. Ceccucci, E. Pedreschi, M. Mirra, F. Costantini, Cortina Gil, E., Minucci, E., Padolski, S., Petrov, P., Velghe, B., Georgiev, G., Kozhuharov, V., Litov, L., Numao, T., Bryman, D., Fu, J., Husek, T., Kampf, K., Zamkovsky, M., Aliberti, R., Khoriauli, G., Kunze, J., Lomidze, D., Marchevski, R., Peruzzo, L., Vormstein, M., Wanke, R., Dalpiaz, P., Fiorini, M., Gamberini, E., Neri, I., Norton, A., Petrucci, F., Wahl, H., Cotta Ramusino, A., Gianoli, A., Iacopini, E., Latino, G., Lenti, M., Bizzeti, A., Bucci, F., Volpe, R., Antonelli, A., Gonnella, F., Lamanna, G., Lanfranchi, G., Mannocchi, G., Martellotti, S., Moulson, M., Raggi, M., Spadaro, T., Ambrosino, F., Capussela, T., Corvino, Michele, Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Mirra, M., Napolitano, M., Saracino, G., Anzivino, G., Brizioli, F., Imbergamo, E., Lollini, R., Santoni, C., Barbanera, M., Cenci, P., Checcucci, B., Duk, V., Lubrano, P., Lupi, M., Pepe, M., Piccini, M., Costantini, F., Di Lella, L., Doble, N., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Pedreschi, E., Sozzi, M., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Piandani, R., Pinzino, J., Pontisso, L., Spinella, F., Mannelli, I., D'Agostini, G., Biagioni, A., Leonardi, E., Lonardo, A., Valente, P., Vicini, P., Ammendola, R., Bonaiuto, V., De Simone, N., Federici, L., Fucci, A., Salamon, A., Sargeni, F., Arcidiacono, R., Bloch-Devaux, B., Boretto, M., Iacobuzio, L., Menichetti, E., Migliore, E., Soldi, D., Biino, C., Filippi, A., Marchetto, F., Engelfried, J., Estrada-Tristan, N., Bragadireanu, A. M., Ghinescu, S. A., Hutanu, O. E., Enik, T., Falaleev, V., Kekelidze, V., Korotkova, A., Madigozhin, D., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Movchan, S., Polenkevich, I., Potrebenikov, Yu., Shkarovskiy, S., Zinchenko, A., Fedotov, S., Gushchin, E., Khotyantsev, A., Kleimenova, A., Kudenko, Y., Kurochka, V., Medvedeva, M., Mefodev, A., Shaikhiev, A., Kholodenko, S., Kurshetsov, V., Obraztsov, V., Ostankov, A., Semenov, V., Sugonyaev, V., Yushchenko, O., Bician, L., Blazek, T., Cerny, V., Koval, M., Kucerova, Z., Ceccucci, A., Danielsson, H., Duval, F., Döbrich, B., Gatignon, L., Guida, R., Hahn, F., Jenninger, B., Laycock, P., Lehmann Miotto, G., Lichard, P., Mapelli, A., Noy, M., Palladino, V., Perrin-Terrin, M., Ruggiero, G., Ryjov, V., Venditti, S., Brunetti, M. B., Fascianelli, V., Goudzovski, E., Lazzeroni, C., Lurkin, N., Newson, F., Parkinson, C., Romano, A., Sergi, A., Sturgess, A., Swallow, J., Heath, H., Page, R., Trilov, S., Angelucci, B., Britton, D., Graham, C., Protopopescu, D., Dainton, J. B., Fry, J. R., Fulton, L., Hutchcroft, D., Massri, K., Maurice, E., Wrona, B., Conovaloff, A., Cooper, P., Coward, D., and Rubin, P.
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, lepton, Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix, heavy neutral leptons, neutrino mixing, FOS: Physical sciences, k meson, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, neutrino mixing, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, decay, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, neutrino, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Minimum bias, Economica, Bounds, neutrinos, masses, tests, TheoryofComputation_ANALYSISOFALGORITHMSANDPROBLEMCOMPLEXITY, 0103 physical sciences, heavy neutral leptons, lepton, k meson, decay, neutrino, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, Range (particle radiation), Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, hep-ex, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Ambientale, lcsh:QC1-999, High Energy Physics::Experiment, lcsh:Physics, Particle Physics - Experiment, Lepton
Abstract: A search for heavy neutral lepton production in $K^+$ decays using a data sample collected with a minimum bias trigger by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2015 is reported. Upper limits at the $10^{-7}$ to $10^{-6}$ level are established on the elements of the extended neutrino mixing matrix $|U_{\ell 4}|^2$ ($\ell=e,\mu$) for heavy neutral lepton mass in the range $170-448~{\rm MeV}/c^2$. This improves on the results from previous production searches in $K^+$ decays, setting more stringent limits and extending the mass range., Comment: Version accepted for publication in Phys.Lett.B (12/01/2018)
Published: 2018

45. Level Zero Trigger Processor for the NA62 experiment

Author: Dario Soldi and S. Chiozzi
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Computer science, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Topology (electrical circuits), NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, 010306 general physics, Field-programmable gate array, Instrumentation, physics.ins-det, Mathematical Physics, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, hep-ex, Gigabit Ethernet, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Super Proton Synchrotron, Programmable logic device, business, Energy (signal processing), Computer hardware, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The NA62 experiment is designed to measure the ultra-rare decay $K^+ \rightarrow \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$ branching ratio with a precision of $\sim 10\%$ at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). The trigger system of NA62 consists in three different levels designed to select events of physics interest in a high beam rate environment. The L0 Trigger Processor (L0TP) is the lowest level system of the trigger chain. It is hardware implemented using programmable logic. The architecture of the NA62 L0TP system is a new approach compared to existing systems used in high-energy physics experiments. It is fully digital, based on a standard gigabit Ethernet communication between detectors and the L0TP Board. The L0TP Board is a commercial development board, mounting a programmable logic device (FPGA). The primitives generated by sub-detectors are sent asynchronously using the UDP protocol to the L0TP during the entire beam spill period. The L0TP realigns in time the primitives coming from seven different sources and performs a data selection based on the characteristics of the event such as energy, multiplicity and topology of hits in the sub-detectors. It guarantees a maximum latency of 1 ms. The maximum input rate is about 10 MHz for each sub-detector, while the design maximum output trigger rate is 1 MHz. A description of the trigger algorithm is presented here., Comment: 15 pages
Published: 2018

46. New limits on heavy neutrinos at NA62

Author: Aliberti, R, Ambrosino, F, Ammendola, R, Angelucci, B, Antonelli, A, Anzivino, G, Arcidiacono, R, Barbanera, M, Biagioni, A, Bician, L, Biino, C, Bizzeti, A, Blazek, T, Bloch-Devaux, B, Bonaiuto, V, Boretto, M, Bragadireanu, M, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, Brunetti, Mb, Bryman, D, Bucci, F, Capussela, T, Ceccucci, A, Cenci, P, Cerny, V, Cerri, C, Checcucci, B, Conovaloff, A, Cooper, P, Cortina Gil, E, Corvino, M, Costantini, F, Cottaramusino, A, Coward, D, D’Agostini, G, Dainton, J, Dalpiaz, P, Danielsson, H, De Simone, N, Di Filippo, D, Di Lella, L, Doble, N, Dobrich, B, Duk, V, Duval, F, Engelfried, J, Enik, T, Estrada-Tristan, N, Falaleev, V, Fantechi, R, Fascianelli, V, Federici, L, Fedotov, S, Filippi, A, Fiorini, M, Fry, J, Fu, J, Fucci, A, Fulton, L, Gamberini, E, Gatignon, L, Georgiev, G, Ghinescu, S, Gianoli, A, Giorgi, M, Giudici, S, Gonnella, F, Goudzovski, E, Graham, C, Guida, R, Gushchin, E, Hahn, F, Heath, H, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Imbergamo, E, Jenninger, B, Kampf, K, Kekelidze, V, Kholodenko, S, Khoriauli, G, Khotyantsev, A, Kleimenova, A, Korotkova, A, Koval, M, Kozhuharov, V, Kucerova, Z, Kudenko, Y, Kunze, J, Kurochka, V, Kurshetsov, V, Lamanna, G, Lanfranchi, G, Latino, G, Laycock, P, Lazzeroni, C, Lehmann Miotto, G, Lenti, M, Leonardi, E, Lichard, P, Litov, L, Lollini, R, Lomidze, D, Lonardo, A, Lubrano, P, Lupi, M, Lurkin, N, Madigozhin, D, Mannelli, I, Mannocchi, G, Mapelli, A, Marchetto, F, Marchevski, R, Martellotti, S, Massarotti, P, Massri, K, Maurice, E, Medvedeva, M, Mefodev, A, Menichetti, E, Migliore, E, Minucci, E, Mirra, M, Misheva, M, Molokanova, N, Moulson, M, Movchan, S, Napolitano, M, Neri, I, Newson, F, Norton, A, Noy, M, Numao, T, Obraztsov, V, Ostankov, A, Padolski, S, Page, R, Palladino, V, Parkinson, C, Pedreschi, E, Pepe, M, Perrin-Terrin, M, Peruzzo, L, Petrov, P, Petrucci, F, Piandani, R, Piccini, M, Pinzino, J, Polenkevich, I, Pontisso, L, Potrebenikov, Y, Protopopescu, D, Raggi, M, Romano, A, Rubin, P, Ruggiero, G, Ryjov, V, Salamon, A, Santoni, C, Saracino, G, Sargeni, F, Semenov, V, Sergi, A, Shaikhiev, A, Shkarovskiy, S, Soldi, D, Sougonyaev, V, Sozzi, M, Spadaro, T, Spinella, F, Sturgess, A, Swallow, J, Trilov, S, Valente, P, Velghe, B, Venditti, S, Vicini, P, Volpe, R, Vormstein, M, Wahl, H, Wanke, R, Wrona, B, Yushchenko, O, Zamkovsky, M, and Zinchenko, A
Subjects: Physics, Range (particle radiation), Large Hadron Collider, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Creative commons, NA62 experiment, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, Minimum bias, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Heavy neutrino, Neutrino, Nuclear Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: © 2017 Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons. The NA62 experiment at CERN collected a large sample of charged kaon decays in flight with a minimum bias trigger in 2007. Upper limits on the rate of the charged kaon decay into a muon and a heavy neutrino obtained from this data are reported for a range of heavy neutrino masses. Prospects for similar searches using data collected in 2015 are also reported.
Published: 2018

47. K+ to pi+ nu nu first NA62 results

Author: Aliberti, R, Ambrosino, F, Ammendola, R, Angelucci, B, Antonelli, A, Anzivino, G, Arcidiacono, R, Barbanera, M, Biagioni, A, Bician, L, Biino, C, Bizzeti, A, Blazek, T, Bloch-Devaux, B, Bonaiuto, V, Boretto, M, Bragadireanu, M, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, Brunetti, Mb, Bryman, D, Bucci, F, Capussela, T, Ceccucci, A, Cenci, P, Cerny, V, Cerri, C, Checcucci, B, Conovalo, A, Cooper, P, Cortina Gil, E, Corvino, M, Costantini, F, Cotta Ramusino, A, Coward, D, Dagostini, G, Dainton, J, Dalpiaz, P, Danielsson, H, De Simone, N, Di Filippo, D, Laycock, P, Di Lella, L, Doble, N, Dobrich, B, Duval, F, Duk, V, Engelfried, J, Enik, T, Estrada-Tristan, N, Falaleev, V, Fan- techi, R, Fascianelli, V, Federici, L, Fedotov, S, Filippi, A, Fiorini, M, Fry, J, Fu, J, Fucci, A, Fulton, L, Gamberini, E, Gatignon, L, Georgiev, G, Ghinescu, S, Gianoli, A, Giorgi, M, Giudici, S, Gonnella, F, Goudzovski, E, Graham, C, Guida, R, Gushchin, E, Hahn, F, Heath, H, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Im- bergamo, E, Jenninger, B, Kampf, K, Kekelidze, V, Kholodenko, S, Khoriauli, G, Khotyantsev, A, Kleimenova, A, Korotkova, A, Koval, M, Kozhuharov, V, Kucerova, Z, Kudenko, Y, Kunze, J, Kurochka, V, Kurshetsov, V, Lanfranchi, G, Lamanna, G, Latino, G, Lazzeroni, C, Lehmann Miotto, G, Lenti, M, Leonardi, E, Lichard, P, Litov, L, Lollini, R, Lomidze, D, Lonardo, A, Lubrano, P, Lupi, M, Lurkin, N, Madigozhin, D, Mannelli, I, Mannocchi, G, Mapelli, A, Marchetto, F, Marchevski, R, Martellotti, S, Massarotti, P, Massri, K, Maurice, E, Medvedeva, M, Mefodev, A, Menichetti, E, Migliore, E, Minucci, E, Mirra, M, Misheva, M, Molokanova, N, Moulson, M, Movchan, S, Napoli- tano, M, Neri, I, Newson, F, Norton, A, Noy, M, Numao, T, Obraztsov, V, Ostankov, A, Padolski, S, Page, R, Palladino, V, Parkinson, C, Pedreschi, E, Pepe, M, Perrin-Terrin, M, Peruzzo, L, Petrov, P, Petrucci, F, Piandani, R, Piccini, M, Pinzino, J, Polenkevich, I, Pontisso, L, Potrebenikov, Y, Protopopescu, D, Raggi, M, Romano, A, Rubin, P, Ruggiero, G, Ryjov, V, Salamon, A, Santoni, C, Saracino, G, Sargeni, F, Semenov, V, Sergi, A, Shaikhiev, A, Shkarovskiy, S, Soldi, D, Sougonyaev, V, Sozzi, M, Spadaro, T, Spinella, F, Sturgess, A, Swallow, J, Trilov, S, Valente, P, Velghe, B, Venditti, S, Vicini, P, Volpe, R, Vormstein, M, Wahl, H, Wanke, R, Wrona, B, Yushchenko, O, Zamkovsky, M, and Zinchenko, A
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Branching fraction, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Pi, NA62 experiment, Measure (mathematics), Standard Model, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare
Abstract: The K+ → π+νν decay is characterised by a very precise prediction in the Standard Model (SM). Its branching ratio, which is expected to be less than 10−10 is one of the best candidates to indicate indirect effects of new physics beyond SM at the highest mass scales. The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is designed to measure the branching ratio of the K+ → π+νν decay with an in-fight technique, never used before for this measurement. NA62 is taking data since in 2016 with the goal to reach the SM sensitivity, an accuracy of the order of 10%. In 2017 it has then collected 10 times more statistics and a similar amount of data is expected from the 2018 run. The preliminary result on K+ → π+νν from the full 2016 data set and prospects for future developments are presented.
Published: 2018

48. Search for Hidden Sector particles at NA62

Author: Aliberti, R, Ambrosino, F, Ammendola, R, Angelucci, B, Antonelli, A, Anzivino, G, Arcidiacono, R, Barbanera, M, Biagioni, A, Bician, L, Biino, C, Bizzeti, A, Blazek, T, Bloch-Devaux, B, Bonaiuto, V, Boretto, M, Bragadireanu, M, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, Brunetti, Mb, Bryman, D, Bucci, F, Capussela, T, Ceccucci, A, Cenci, P, Cerny, V, Cerri, C, Checcucci, B, Conovaloff, A, Cooper, P, Cortina Gil, E, Corvino, M, Costan-tini, F, Cotta Ramusino, A, Coward, D, D’Agostini, G, Dainton, J, Dalpiaz, P, Danielsson, H, De Simone, N, Di Filippo, D, Di Lella, L, Doble, N, Dobrich, B, Duk, V, Duval, F, Engelfried, J, Enik, T, Estrada-Tristan, N, Falaleev, V, Fantechi, R, Fascianelli, V, Federici, L, Fedotov, S, Filippi, A, Fiorini, M, Fry, J, Fu, J, Fucci, A, Fulton, L, Gamberini, E, Gatignon, L, Georgiev, G, Ghinescu, S, Gianoli, A, Giorgi, M, Giudici, S, Gonnella, F, Goudzovski, E, Graham, C, Guida, R, Gushchin, E, Hahn, F, Heath, H, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Imbergamo, E, Jen-ninger, B, Kampf, K, Kekelidze, V, Kholodenko, S, Khoriauli, G, Khotyantsev, A, Kleimenova, A, Korotkova, A, Koval, M, Kozhuharov, V, Kucerova, Z, Kudenko, Y, Kunze, J, Kurochka, V, Kurshetsov, V, Lamanna, G, Lanfranchi, G, Latino, G, Laycock, P, Lazzeroni, C, Lehmann Miotto, G, Lenti, M, Leonardi, E, Lichard, P, Litov, L, Lollini, R, Lomidze, D, Lonardo, A, Lubrano, P, Lupi, M, Lurkin, N, Madigozhin, D, Mannelli, I, Mannocchi, G, Mapelli, A, Marchetto, F, Marchevski, R, Martellotti, S, Massarotti, P, Massri, K, Maurice, E, Medvedeva, M, Mefodev, A, Menichetti, E, Migliore, E, Minucci, E, Mirra, M, Misheva, M, Molokanova, N, Moulson, M, Movchan, S, Napolitano, M, Neri, I, Newson, F, Norton, A, Noy, M, Numao, T, Obraztsov, V, Ostankov, A, Padolski, S, Page, R, Palladino, V, Parkinson, C, Pe-dreschi, E, Pepe, M, Perrin-Terrin, M, Peruzzo, L, Petrov, P, Petrucci, F, Piandani, R, Piccini, M, Pinzino, J, Polenkevich, I, Pontisso, L, Potrebenikov, Y, Protopopescu, D, Raggi, M, Romano, A, Rubin, P, Ruggiero, G, Ryjov, V, Salamon, A, Santoni, C, Saracino, G, Sargeni, F, Semenov, V, Sergi, A, Shaikhiev, A, Shkarovskiy, S, Soldi, D, Sougonyaev, V, Sozzi, M, Spadaro, T, Spinella, F, Sturgess, A, Swallow, J, Trilov, S, Valente, P, Velghe, B, Venditti, S, Vicini, P, Volpe, R, Vormstein, M, Wahl, H, Wanke, R, Wrona, B, Yushchenko, O, Zamkovsky, M, and Zinchenko, A
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Dark matter, NA62 experiment, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, law.invention, Hidden sector, Baryon asymmetry, law, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Beam dump, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Fixed target experiments are a particularly useful tool in the search of very weakly coupled particles in the MeV-GeV range that could explain the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, the nature of the Dark Matter and the origin of the neutrino masses and oscillations. The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is currently taking data to measure the rare decay $K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+} v \bar v$. Owing to the high beam-energy and high beam intensity, a long decay volume and a hermetic detector coverage, NA62 also has the opportunity to directly search for a plethora of hidden-sector particles, both in visible or invisible final states. We will detail on status and prospects of these searches, with special focus on those that can be performed with the experiment operated in beam-dump mode.
Published: 2018

49. Precise mirror alignment and basic performance of the RICH detector of the NA62 experiment at CERN

Author: B. Checcucci, R. Lollini, R. Ciaranfi, Mattia Barbanera, Jürgen Engelfried, E. Iacopini, M. Piccini, Viacheslav Duk, M. Lenti, R. Volpe, F. Bucci, N. Estrada-Tristan, F. Brizioli, E. Imbergamo, Andrea Bizzeti, P. Cenci, M. Pepe, G. Latino, Antonio Cassese, and G. Anzivino
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Instrumentation, FOS: Physical sciences, Ring (chemistry), NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, Ring-imaging Cherenkov detector, Cherenkov detectors, Particle identification methods, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Mathematical Physics, 010306 general physics, physics.ins-det, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, hep-ex, Detector, Resolution (electron density), Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Charged particle, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, business, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector is crucial for the identification of charged particles in the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS. The detector commissioning was completed in 2016 by the precise alignment of mirrors using reconstructed tracks. The alignment procedure and measurement of the basic performance are described. Ring radius resolution, ring centre resolution, single hit resolution and mean number of hits per ring are evaluated for positron tracks. The contribution of the residual mirror misalignment to the performance is calculated., Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2018

50. First results on the K+ → π+vv¯ decay search from NA62

Author: Aliberti, R, Ambrosino, F, Ammendola, R, Angelucci, B, Antonelli, A, Anzivino, G, Arcidiacono, R, Barbanera, M, Biagioni, A, Bician, L, Biino, C, Bizzeti, A, Blazek, T, Bloch-Devaux, B, Bonaiuto, V, Boretto, M, Bragadireanu, M, Britton, D, Brizioli, F, Brunetti, Mb, Bryman, D, Bucci, F, Capussela, T, Ceccucci, A, Cenci, P, Cerny, V, Cerri, C, Checcucci, B, Conovaloff, A, Cooper, P, Cortina Gil, E, Corvino, M, Costantini, F, Cotta Ramusino, A, Coward, D, D'Agostini, G, Dainton, J, Dalpiaz, P, Danielsson, H, De Simone, N, Di Filippo, D, Di Lella, L, Doble, N, Dobrich, B, Duval, F, Duk, V, Engelfried, J, Enik, T, Estrada-Tristan, N, Falaleev, V, Fantechi, R, Fascianelli, V, Federici, L, Fedotov, S, Filippi, A, Fiorini, M, Fry, J, Fu, J, Fucci, A, Fulton, L, Gamberini, E, Gatignon, L, Georgiev, G, Ghinescu, S, Gianoli, A, Giorgi, M, Giudici, S, Gonnella, F, Goudzovski, E, Graham, C, Guida, R, Gushchin, E, Hahn, F, Heath, H, Husek, T, Hutanu, O, Hutchcroft, D, Iacobuzio, L, Iacopini, E, Imbergamo, E, Jenninger, B, Kampf, K, Kekelidze, V, Kholodenko, S, Khoriauli, G, Khotyantsev, A, Kleimenova, A, Korotkova, A, Koval, M, Kozhuharov, V, Kucerova, Z, Kudenko, Y, Kunze, J, Kurochka, V, Kurshetsov, V, Lanfranchi, G, Lamanna, G, Latino, G, Laycock, P, Lazzeroni, C, Lenti, M, Lehmann Miotto, G, Leonardi, E, Lichard, P, Litov, L, Lollini, R, Lomidze, D, Lonardo, A, Lubrano, P, Lupi, M, Lurkin, N, Madigozhin, D, Mannelli, I, Mannocchi, G, Mapelli, A, Marchetto, F, Marchevski, R, Martellotti, S, Massarotti, P, Massri, K, Maurice, E, Medvedeva, M, Mefodev, A, Menichetti, E, Migliore, E, Minucci, E, Mirra, M, Misheva, M, Molokanova, N, Moulson, M, Movchan, S, Napolitano, M, Neri, I, Newson, F, Norton, A, Noy, M, Numao, T, Obraztsov, V, Ostankov, A, Padolski, S, Page, R, Palladino, V, Parkinson, C, Pedreschi, E, Pepe, M, Perrin-Terrin, M, Peruzzo, L, Petrov, P, Petrucci, F, Piandani, R, Piccini, M, Pinzino, J, Polenkevich, I, Pontisso, L, Potrebenikov, Y, Protopopescu, D, Raggi, M, Romano, A, Rubin, P, Ruggiero, G, Ryjov, V, Salamon, A, Santoni, C, Saracino, G, Sargeni, F, Semenov, V, Sergi, A, Shaikhiev, A, Shkarovskiy, S, Soldi, D, Sougonyaev, V, Sozzi, M, Spadaro, T, Spinella, F, Sturgess, A, Swallow, J, Trilov, S, Valente, P, Velghe, B, Venditti, S, Vicini, P, Volpe, R, Vormstein, M, Wahl, H, Wanke, R, Wrona, B, Yushchenko, O, Zamkovsky, M, and Zinchenko, A
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Physics beyond the Standard Model, QC1-999, NA62 experiment, 01 natural sciences, Standard Model, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Data set, 0103 physical sciences, Sensitivity (control systems), 010306 general physics, Event (particle physics)
Abstract: The precise measurement of the branching ratio of an ultrarare decay K+ → π+vv¯ (~10-10 according to the calculation within the Standard Model) allows to probe New Physics via indirect effects at mass scales higher than those accessible at the LHC. The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is aimed at measuring this branching ratio with the 10% precision. To achieve such level of precision, a novel decay-in-flight technique is used. The statistics collected during the first NA62 physics run in 2016 allowed to demonstrate the proof of the experimental method and obtain O(10-10) single event sensitivity. The preliminary results based on the 2016 data set are described.
Published: 2018

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