17–31 Jul 2025
Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece
Europe/Athens timezone
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New measurement of $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ branching ratio at the NA62 experiment

24 Jul 2025, 17:30
25m
Room 1

Room 1

Talk High Energy Particle Physics High Energy Particle Physics

Speaker

Ilaria Panichi (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))

Description

The $K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ decay is a golden mode for flavour physics. Its branching ratio is predicted with high precision by the Standard Model to be less than $10^{-10}$, and this decay mode is highly sensitive to indirect effects of new physics up to the highest mass scales. A new measurement of the $K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ decay by the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is presented, using data collected in 2021 and 2022. This new dataset was collected after modifications to the beamline and detectors and at a higher instantaneous beam intensity with respect to the previous 2016-2018 data taking. Using the NA62 datasets from 2016-2022, a new measurement of $\mathcal{B} (K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}) = \left(13.0^{+ 3.3}_{- 2.9} \right)\times 10^{-11} $ is reported, and for the first time the $K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ decay is observed with a significance exceeding $5\sigma$.

Details

Dr. Ilaria Panichi (ilaria.panichi@cern.ch), INFN Firenze, Italy, https://www.fi.infn.it/index.php/it/

Internet talk No
Is this an abstract from experimental collaboration? Yes
Name of experiment and experimental site NA62 experiment at CERN
Is the speaker for that presentation defined? Yes

Authors

Angela Romano (University of Birmingham (GB)) Ilaria Panichi (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))

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