28 August 2011 to 2 September 2011
Fermilab
US/Central timezone
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Indirect searches for New Physics in rare kaon decays

1 Sep 2011, 15:50
20m
C: Hornets Nest WH8NX

C: Hornets Nest WH8NX

Speaker

Francesca Bucci (INFN Firenze)

Description

The ratio of charged kaon leptonic decay rates RK=BR(K --> e nu)/BR(K --> mu nu) is strongly suppressed and predicted to an excellent precision within the Standard Model. It therefore has a unique sensitivity to deviations from lepton universality arising in multi-Higgs new physics models, including SUSY. A new measurement of RK based on the full dedicated data sample collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2007 is reported. The record accuracy of 0.4% constrains the parameter space of models with extended Higgs sector.

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