NA62: a Hermetic Detector for Ultra Rare Kaon Decays

by Antonino Sergi (CERN)

Friday 13 May 2011, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr (CERN)

The NA62 experiment at CERN aims at a precision measurement of the ultra-rare decay K+ -> pi+ nu nubar; the required background suppression is O(10^10). To achieve this goal the beam line and the detector have been designed to maximize the beam intensity, the kinematical rejection and the hermeticity to photons. Given the weak experimental signature of the signal, additional capabilities like PID, vetoing for charged particles and muons are also necessary, while the ~750MHz rate of beam particles calls for fine time resolution. An overview of the experiment and the detector is presented, with special attention to a few subdetectors. A minimal setup for physics will be ready for data taking in fall 2012.

Slides Seminar_2011-05-13.pdf