11–15 Oct 2010
INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati <!-- ID_UTENTE=503 -->
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Precision measurements of kaon radiative decays in NA48

12 Oct 2010, 16:00
25m
Auditorium B. Touschek - Chair: Antonio Di Domenico (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati <!-- ID_UTENTE=503 -->)

Auditorium B. Touschek - Chair: Antonio Di Domenico

INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati <!-- ID_UTENTE=503 -->

Via Enrico Fermi, 40 00044 Frascati Italy
oral Kaons Kaon Physics

Speaker

Monica Pepe (INFN Perugia)

Description

We report our final result on the measurement of direct photon emission (DE) in the decay K+- -> pi+- pi0 gamma and its interference (INT) with the inner bremsstrahlung amplitude. For this measurement the full NA48/2 data set with about 600k reconstructed K+- -> pi+- pi0 gamma decays was analyzed, which is factor of 30 larger than for previous experiments and a factor of three w.r.t. our preliminary result. From this, the sizes of both the DE and the INT amplitudes have been measured with high precision, with the INT amplitude being observed for the first time. In addition, the CP violating asymmetry between K+ and K- has been obtained to be less than 103 in this channel. We also report on the measurement of the branching fraction of the rare decay K+- -> pi+- gamma gamma using the full NA48/2 dataset of more than 5000 reconstructed decays from the full NA48/2 data set. From the spectrum of the invariant gamma gamma mass, the decay parameter c^ can be extracted with unprecedented precision. Finally, we report on the measurement of more than 200000 events of the decay K+- -> pi0 e+- nu_e gamma, recorded with the NA48/2 detector at CERN. These statistics, about two orders of magnitude more than previous experiments, allow measurements of the decay rate and of possible CP violation in this decay with per cent precision.

Primary author

Monica Pepe (INFN Perugia)

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