Searches for lepton flavour and lepton number violation in K+ decays at NA62

NA62 Collaboration

Searches for lepton flavour and lepton number violation in K⁺ decays at NA62

NA62 Collaboration

School of Physics

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Abstract

A search for the lepton number violating K⁺ ? p^-µ^+e+ and lepton flavour violating K⁺ ? p^-µ^-e+ decays is reported using NA62 data collected in 2017 and 2018. No significant excess is observed above the background expectation and therefore upper limits are established on the branching ratios at 90% confidence level: B(K⁺ ? p^-µ^+e+) < 4.2 × 10^-11 and B(K⁺ ? p⁺µ^-e+) < 6.6 × 10^-11. These results improve over the previous limits by factors of 12 and 8 respectively.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Science
Volume	390
Publication status	Published - 15 Apr 2021
Event	40th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2020 - Virtual, Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 28 Jul 2020 → 6 Aug 2020

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Name	Proceedings of Science
Publisher	SISSA
ISSN (Print)	1824-8039

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Conference	40th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2020
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Virtual, Prague
Period	28/07/20 → 6/08/20

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abstract = "A search for the lepton number violating K+ ? p-µ+e+ and lepton flavour violating K+ ? p-µ-e+ decays is reported using NA62 data collected in 2017 and 2018. No significant excess is observed above the background expectation and therefore upper limits are established on the branching ratios at 90\% confidence level: B(K+ ? p-µ+e+) < 4.2 × 10-11 and B(K+ ? p+µ-e+) < 6.6 × 10-11. These results improve over the previous limits by factors of 12 and 8 respectively.",

author = "\{NA62 Collaboration\} and Joel Swallow and R. Aliberti and F. Ambrosino and R. Ammendola and B. Angelucci and A. Antonelli and G. Anzivino and R. Arcidiacono and T. Bache and A. Baeva and D. Baigarashev and M. Barbanera and J. Bernhard and A. Biagioni and L. Bician and C. Biino and A. Bizzeti and T. Blazek and B. Bloch-Devaux and V. Bonaiuto and M. Boretto and M. Bragadireanu and D. Britton and F. Brizioli and Brunetti, \{M. B.\} and D. Bryman and F. Bucci and T. Capussela and J. Carmignani and A. Ceccucci and P. Cenci and V. Cerny and C. Cerri and B. Checcucci and A. Conovaloff and Gil, \{E. Cortina\} and M. Corvino and F. Costantini and Ramusino, \{A. Cotta\} and D. Coward and G. D'Agostini and J. Dainton and P. Dalpiaz and H. Danielsson and \{de Simone\}, N. and \{Di Filippo\}, D. and \{Di Lella\}, L. and H. Heath and R. Page and S. Trilov",

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