A Proposal to study Rare Kaon Decays at the CERN-SPS

par Augusto Ceccucci - CERN

lundi 27 mars 2006, 00:00 → 00:00 US/Central

Amphi Pierre Lehmann (LAL)

Rare Kaon Decays provide us with an excellent opportunity to shed light on the flavour structure within the Standard Model and beyond. This is because these processes are dominated by short distance physics and the prediction in the Standard Theory are not affected by hadronic uncertainties, a condition seldomly realised in meson decays. After a brief physics introduction and a review of the experimental state-of-the art, the speaker will illustrate a new experiment proposed at the SPS to measure about 100 SM events of the decay K⁺--> p⁺nn -bar. The proposal builds on the infrastructure and expertise of the previous CERN kaon experiment (NA48) to provide excellent physics potential at relatively small marginal cost.

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