First observation and study of the $K^{\pm} \rightarrow \pi^{0} \pi^{0} \mu^{\pm} \nu$ decay

Autor: Collaboration, NA48/2, Batley, J. R., Kalmus, G., Lazzeroni, C., Munday, D. J., Slater, M. W., Wotton, S. A., Arcidiacono, R., Ceccucci, A., Bocquet, G., Cabibbo, N., Cundy, D., Falaleev, V., Gatignon, L., Fidecaro, M., Gonidec, A., Kubischta, W., Maier, A., Norton, A., Patel, M., Peters, A., Balev, S., Frabetti, P. L., Gersabeck, E., Goudzovski, E., Hristov, P., Kekelidze, V., Madigozhin, D., Molokanova, N., Polenkevich, I., Potrebenikov, Yu., Korotkova, A., Stoynev, S., Zinchenko, A., Kozhuharov, V., Litov, L., Monnier, E., Swallow, E., Winston, R., Rubin, P., Walker, A., Baldini, W., Ramusino, A. Cotta, Dalpiaz, P., Damiani, C., Fiorini, M., Gianoli, A., Martini, M., Petrucci, F., Savrié, M., Scarpa, M., Wahl, H., Bizzeti, A., Veltri, M., Calvetti, M., Celeghini, E., Iacopini, E., Lenti, M., Ruggiero, G., Behler, M., Eppard, K., Hita-Hochgesand, M., Kleinknecht, K., Marouelli, P., Masetti, L., Moosbrugger, U., Morales, C. Morales, Renk, B., Wache, M., Winhart, A., Wanke, R., Coward, D., Dabrowski, A., Martin, T. Fonseca, Shieh, M., Szleper, M., Velasco, M., Wood, M. D., Cenci, P., Pepe, M., Petrucci, M. C., Anzivino, G., Imbergamo, E., Nappi, A., Piccini, M., Raggi, M., Valdata-Nappi, M., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Collazuol, G., Di Lella, L., Lamanna, G., Mannelli, I., Michetti, A., Costantini, F., Doble, N., Fiorini, L., Giudici, S., Pierazzini, G., Sozzi, M., Venditti, S., Bloch-Devaux, B., Peyaud, B., Cheshkov, C., Chèze, J. B., De Beer, M., Derré, J., Marel, G., Mazzucato, E., Vallage, B., Holder, M., Ziolkowski, M., Biino, C., Cartiglia, N., Marchetto, F., Bifani, S., Clemencic, M., Lopez, S. Goy, Dibon, H., Jeitler, M., Markytan, M., Mikulec, I., Neuhofer, G., Widhalm, L.

Publikováno v: JHEP 03(2024)137

The NA48/2 experiment at CERN reports the first observation of the $K^{\pm} \rightarrow \pi^{0} \pi^{0} \mu^{\pm} \nu$ decay based on a sample of 2437 candidates with 15% background contamination collected in 2003--2004. The decay branching ratio in

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20295

ChPT tests at the NA48 and NA62 experiments at CERN

Autor: NA48/2, Collaborations, NA62, Ambrosino, F., Antonelli, A., Anzivino, G., Arcidiacono, R., Baldini, W., Balev, S., Batley, J. R., Behler, M., Bifani, S., Biino, C., Bizzeti, A., Bloch-Devaux, B., Bocquet, G., Bolotov, V., Bucci, F., Cabibbo, N., Calvetti, M., Cartiglia, N., Ceccucci, A., Cenci, P., Cerri, C., Cheshkov, C., Chèze, J. B., Clemencic, M., Collazuol, G., Costantini, F., Ramusino, A. Cotta, Coward, D., Cundy, D., Dabrowski, A., D'Agostini, G., Dalpiaz, P., Damiani, C., Danielsson, H., De Beer, M., Dellacasa, G., Derré, J., Dibon, H., Di Filippo, D., DiLella, L., Doble, N., Duk, V., Engelfried, J., Eppard, K., Falaleev, V., Fantechi, R., Fidecaro, M., Fiorini, L., Fiorini, M., Martin, T. Fonseca, Frabetti, P. L., Fucci, A., Gallorini, S., Gatignon, L., Gersabeck, E., Gianoli, A., Giudici, S., Gonidec, A., Goudzovski, E., Lopez, S. Goy, Gushchin, E., Hallgren, B., Hita-Hochgesand, M., Holder, M., Hristov, P., Iacopini, E., Imbergamo, E., Jeitler, M., Kalmus, G., Kekelidze, V., Kleinknecht, K., Kozhuharov, V., Kubischta, W., Kurshetsov, V., Lamanna, G., Lazzeroni, C., Lenti, M., Leonardi, E., Litov, L., Madigozhin, D., Maier, A., Mannelli, I., Marchetto, F., Marel, G., Markytan, M., Marouelli, P., Martini, M., Masetti, L., Massarotti, P., Mazzucato, E., Michetti, A., Mikulec, I., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Monnier, E., Moosbrugger, U., Morales, C. Morales, Moulson, M., Movchan, S., Munday, D. J., Napolitano, M., Nappi, A., Neuhofer, G., Norton, A., Numao, T., Obraztsov, V., Palladino, V., Patel, M., Pepe, M., Peters, A., Petrucci, F., Petrucci, M. C., Peyaud, B., Piandani, R., Piccini, M., Pierazzini, G., Polenkevich, I., Popov, I., Potrebenikov, Yu., Raggi, M., Renk, B., Retière, F., Riedler, P., Romano, A., Rubin, P., Ruggiero, G., Salamon, A., Saracino, G., Savrié, M., Scarpa, M., Semenov, V., Sergi, A., Serra, M., Shieh, M., Shkarovskiy, S., Slater, M. W., Sozzi, M., Spadaro, T., Stoynev, S., Swallow, E., Szleper, M., Valdata-Nappi, M., Valente, P., Vallage, B., Velasco, M., Veltri, M., Venditti, S., Wache, M., Wahl, H., Walker, A., Wanke, R., Widhalm, L., Winhart, A., Winston, R., Wood, M. D., Wotton, S. A., Yushchenko, O., Zinchenko, A., Ziolkowski, M.

Publikováno v: PoS HQL2014 (2014) 022

The NA48/2 Collaboration at CERN has accumulated unprecedented statistics of rare kaon decays in the Ke4 modes: Ke4(+-) ($K^\pm \to \pi^+ \pi^- e^\pm \nu$) and Ke4(00) ($K^\pm \to \pi^0 \pi^0 e^\pm \nu$) with nearly one percent background contaminati

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.08014

Measurement and simulation of the muon-induced neutron yield in lead

Autor: Reichhart, L., Lindote, A., Akimov, D. Yu., Araujo, H. M., Barnes, E. J., Belov, V. A., Bewick, A., Burenkov, A. A., Chepel, V., Currie, A., DeViveiros, L., Edwards, B., Francis, V., Ghag, C., Hollingsworth, A., Horn, M., Kalmus, G. E., Kobyakin, A. S., Kovalenko, A. G., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Lebedenko, V. N., Lopes, M. I., Luscher, R., Majewski, P., Murphy, A. St J., Neves, F., Paling, S. M., da Cunha, J. Pinto, Preece, R., Quenby, J. J., Scovell, P. R., Silva, C., Solovov, V. N., Smith, N. J. T., Smith, P. F., Stekhanov, V. N., Sumner, T. J., Thorne, C., Walker, R. J.

Publikováno v: Astroparticle Physics 47 (2013) 67-76

A measurement is presented of the neutron production rate in lead by high energy cosmic-ray muons at a depth of 2850 m water equivalent (w.e.) and a mean muon energy of 260 GeV. The measurement exploits the delayed coincidences between muons and the

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4275

Position Reconstruction in a Dual Phase Xenon Scintillation Detector

Autor: Solovov, V. N., Belov, V. A., Akimov, D. Yu., Araújo, H. M., Barnes, E. J., Burenkov, A. A., Chepel, V., Currie, A., DeViveiros, L., Edwards, B., Ghag, C., Hollingsworth, A., Horn, M., Kalmus, G. E., Kobyakin, A. S., Kovalenko, A. G., Lebedenko, V. N., Lindote, A., Lopes, M. I., Lüscher, R., Majewski, P., Murphy, A. St J., Neves, F., Paling, S. M., da Cunha, J. Pinto, Preece, R., Quenby, J. J., Reichhart, L., Scovell, P. R., Silva, C., Smith, N. J. T., Smith, P. F., Stekhanov, V. N., Sumner, T. J., Thorne, C., Walker, R. J.

We studied the application of statistical reconstruction algorithms, namely maximum likelihood and least squares methods, to the problem of event reconstruction in a dual phase liquid xenon detector. An iterative method was developed for in-situ reco

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1481

Quenching Factor for Low Energy Nuclear Recoils in a Plastic Scintillator

Autor: Reichhart, L., Akimov, D. Yu., Araujo, H. M., Barnes, E. J., Belov, V. A., Burenkov, A. A., Chepel, V., Currie, A., DeViveiros, L., Edwards, B., Francis, V., Ghag, C., Hollingsworth, A., Horn, M., Kalmus, G. E., Kobyakin, A. S., Kovalenko, A. G., Lebedenko, V. N., Lindote, A., Lopes, M. I., Luscher, R., Majewski, P., Murphy, A. St J., Neves, F., Paling, S. M., da Cunha, J. Pinto, Preece, R., Quenby, J. J., Scovell, P. R., Silva, C., Solovov, V. N., Smith, N. J. T., Smith, P. F., Stekhanov, V. N., Sumner, T. J., Thorne, C., Walker, R. J.

Plastic scintillators are widely used in industry, medicine and scientific research, including nuclear and particle physics. Although one of their most common applications is in neutron detection, experimental data on their response to low-energy nuc

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2248