Speaker
Mauro Piccini
(PG)
Description
Measurement of the helicity suppressed ratio of charged kaon leptonic decay rates
BR(K --> e nu)/BR(K --> mu nu) has long been considered as an excellent test of
lepton universality and the Standard Model (SM) description of weak interactions.
It was realised recently that the suppression of the SM contribution might enhance
the sensitivity to SUSY-induced effects to an experimentally accessible level. The NA62
experiment at the CERN SPS has collected a record number of over 10^5 K --> e nu
decays during a dedicated run in 2007, aiming at achieving 0.5% precision. Experimental strategy, details of the analysis and results will be discussed.
Primary author
Dr
Cristina Lazzeroni Lazzeroni
(University of Birmingham)
