Published May 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Future charged kaon decay experiments

  • 1. INFN Sezione di Roma 'La Sapienza', P.le Aldo Moro, 2, I-00185 Roma (Italy)

Description

Future experiments aiming to perform precise measurement of rare kaon decays are briefly reviewed; in particular those experimental programs designed to gain new insight on the Unitarity triangle and on the CKM mechanism by observing an hundred of events of the K+→π+νν-bar decay are considered. This rare process, BR ∼10-10, is computed with very small theoretical errors, providing one of the cleanest tests of the Standard Model (SM) and, possibly, it could give some hints on the flavour structure of New Physics. A target accuracy of order 10% should be reached, thus making experiments in this field very challenging projects, expecially with respect to backgrounds suppression, particle identification capabilities and detector efficiency, while keeping costs and complexity at a reasonable level

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2006.12.038;
PII
S0920-5632(06)01045-0;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
167
Journal Page Range
p. 3-6
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
7. international conference on hyperons, charm and beauty hadrons
Dates
2-8 Jul 2006
Place
Lancaster (United Kingdom)

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.