Measurement of the rare decay K+- --> pi+- gamma gamma

29 Apr 2014, 17:30
20m
F (BUW)

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BUW

Oral presentation WG4: QCD and Hadronic Final States WG4: QCD and Hadronic Final States

Speaker

Plamen Rumenov Petrov (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))

Description

New final results from an analysis of about 400 K+- --> pi+- gamma gamma rare decay candidates collected by the NA48/2 and NA62 experiments at CERN during low intensity runs with minimum bias trigger configurations are presented. The results include a model-independent decay rate measurement and fits to Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) description. The data support the ChPT prediction for a cusp in the di-photon invariant mass spectrum at the two pion threshold.

Primary author

Cristina Lazzeroni (University of Birmingham (GB))

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