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An investigation of the very rare K+ to π+ νν- decay

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An investigation of the very rare K+ to π+ νν- decay. / NA62 Collaboration ; Carmignani, Joe; Jones, Roger William Lewis et al.
In: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2020, 42, 10.11.2020.

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NA62 Collaboration, Carmignani, J, Jones, RWL, Ruggiero, G & Dainton, J 2020, 'An investigation of the very rare K+ to π+ νν- decay', Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2020, 42. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2020)042

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NA62 Collaboration, Carmignani, J., Jones, R. W. L., Ruggiero, G., & Dainton, J. (2020). An investigation of the very rare K+ to π+ νν- decay. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020, Article 42. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2020)042

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NA62 Collaboration, Carmignani J, Jones RWL, Ruggiero G, Dainton J. An investigation of the very rare K+ to π+ νν- decay. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2020 Nov 10;2020:42. doi: 10.1007/JHEP11(2020)042

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NA62 Collaboration ; Carmignani, Joe ; Jones, Roger William Lewis et al. / An investigation of the very rare K+ to π+ νν- decay. In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2020 ; Vol. 2020.

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abstract = "The NA62 experiment reports an investigation of the K+ to π+ νν- mode from a sample of K+ decays collected in 2017 at the CERN SPS. The experiment has achieved a single event sensitivity of (0.389 ± 0.024) × 10−10, corresponding to 2.2 events assuming the Standard Model branching ratio of (8.4 ± 1.0) × 10−11. Two signal candidates are observed with an expected background of 1.5 events. Combined with the result of a similar analysis conducted by NA62 on a smaller data set recorded in 2016, the collaboration now reports an upper limit of 1.78 × 10−10 for the K+ to π+ νν- branching ratio at 90% CL. This, together with the corresponding 68% CL measurement of (0.48+0.72−0.48) × 10−10, are currently the most precise results worldwide, and are able to constrain some New Physics models that predict large enhancements still allowed by previous measurements.",
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