New physics limits from kaon decays

Abstract

Searches for lepton flavour violation and lepton number violation in kaon decays by the NA62 and NA48/2 experiments at CERN are presented. A new measurement of the ratio of charged kaon leptonic decay rates $R_K=\Gamma (K_{e2})/\Gamma (K_{\mu 2})$ to sub-percent relative precision is discussed. An improved upper limit on the lepton number violating $K^{\pm }\to {\pi }^{\mp }{\mu }^{\pm }{\mu }^{\pm }$ decay rate is also reported. The future 10% precision measurement of the branching ratio of the ultra-rare kaon decay $K^{+}\to {\pi }^{+}\nu \bar{\nu }$ with the NA62 experiment is finally reviewed.

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• Study of the decay K+ => pi+,nu,nubar in the momentum region 140<Ppi<199 MeV/c