NA62 Experiment

The experiment aims to measure the very rare kaon decay K⁺ -> pi⁺ nu nubar in order to extract a 10% measurement of the CKM parameter |V_td|. The experiment will use 400 GeV/c protons from the SPS and aims to collect about 80 to 100 K⁺ -> pi⁺ nu nubar events at the SM prediction with a signal to background ratio of 10:1 in two years of data taking.

Talks and Documentation

• NA62/P326 official CERN website
• Status Report to the CERN SPSC: SPSC-SR-083.pdf
• Talk by Evgueni Goudzovski (2011): "NA62 and precision kaon experiments"
• Talk by Andreas Winhart "A precision test of lepton universality in K → lν decays by NA62 at CERN"
• Cristina Lazzeroni's 2008 talk "The NA62 Experiment"
• Dan Protopopescu's 2012 talk "Grid Support for NA62 Monte Carlo Simulations" (Siena)

PPE People

Currently, David Britton and DanProtopopescu are directly involved in this experiment.

Contributions

Our group, in collaboration with several UK sites, runs NA62's Monte Carlo simulations on the grid, with the aim to provide around 10⁸ events by late 2012. How they are done is documented in here. We started production in early June 2012:

• Production rounds: http://ppewww.physics.gla.ac.uk/~protopop/na62/mc/tools/index.php?task=production

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