Experiments with K-Meson Decays

Abstract

Recent results and future prospects of the particle physics experiments with neutral and charged K-meson (kaon) decays are reviewed. Topics include CP violation, rare decays, leptons in kaon decays, tests of CPT and quantum mechanics, radiative decays, hadrons in kaon decays, basic observables, Vus and CKM unitarity, and exotic searches. Experimental techniques developed for the kaon decay experiments are discussed.

40 pages, 22 figures, to be published in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 2012

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• Study of the decay K+ => pi+,nu,nubar in the momentum region 140<Ppi<199 MeV/c
• Two-Loop Electroweak Corrections for the K -> pi nu anti-nu Decays
• Correlations among new CP violating effects in Delta F = 2 observables
• Improved estimates of rare K decay matrix-elements from Kl3 decays
• Possible Indications of New Physics in Bd-mixing and in sin(2 beta) Determinations
• The Standard Model prediction for R_{e/mu}^{(pi,K)}
• Precise Measurements of Direct CP Violation, CPT Symmetry, and Other Parameters in the Neutral Kaon System
• Electroweak Corrections to the Charm Quark Contribution to K+ -> pi+ nu nu-bar
• Cusps in K --> 3 pi decays
• Resolution of puzzles from the LSND, KARMEN, and MiniBooNE experiments
• Search for direct CP violating charge asymmetries in $K^{\pm }\to {\pi }^{\pm }{\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ and $K^{\pm }\to {\pi }^{\pm }{\pi }^0{\pi }^0$ decays
• KL to pi0 e+ e- and KL to pi0 mu+ mu- : A binary star on the stage of flavor physics
• New measurement of the K+- --> pi+-mu+mu- decay
• Radiative corrections in K --> 3 pi decays
• Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays of the Neutral Kaon
• Isospin breaking in Kl4 decays
• Has HyperCP Observed a Light Higgs Boson?
• Beam-Beam Issues for Colliding Schemes with Large Piwinski Angle and Crabbed Waist
• Measurement of the Form-Factor Slopes for the Decay KLe3 with the KLOE Detector
• Anatomy and Phenomenology of the Lepton Flavor Universality in SUSY Theories
• Scalar QED, NLO and PHOTOS Monte Carlo
• Test of Lepton Flavour Universality in K+ --> l+nu Decays
• Detailed Study of the KL -> 3pi0 Dalitz Plot
• New physics correlations in rare decays
• The Physics of DAFNE and KLOE
• The NA62 experiment at CERN: status and perspectives
• Measurements of the Decay $K_L\to e^{+}{e}^{-}\gamma$
• Measurement of the Decay KL -> pi0 e+ e- gamma
• Search for the decay $K_L^0\to 3\gamma$