The NA62 experiment at CERN: towards the first physics run.

by Riccardo Fantechi (PI)

Monday 19 Dec 2011, 15:00 → 17:00 Europe/Rome

131 (INFN Edificio C)

The NA62 experiment is planning to measure the branching ratio of the decay K+->pi+ nu nubar (expected in the SM to be (8.5+-0.7)*10^-11) with an accuracy of 10% collecting O(100) events, to be able to possibly identify effects due to extensions of the Standard Model. The construction of the NA62 detectors is well advanced: few of them will be installed along a new beam line in the ECN3 hall at CERN and a first setup run is scheduled for late spring 2012, followed by a first physics run during autumn 2012. The entire detector will be assembled throughout 2013, during the LHC shutdown, and NA62 will be ready in 2014 to take data for the first measurement of the above mentioned branching ratio. The seminar will review the measurement technique and the concept of the detectors and their actual status. It will also illustrate how the installation is progressing in the experimental area and the goals for the 2012 runs.

Slides Fantechi_19_12_2011.pdf