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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• Roy equation analysis of pi pi scattering
• Study of the decay K+ => pi+,nu,nubar in the momentum region 140<Ppi<199 MeV/c
• $K_L\to {\pi }^0\nu \bar{\nu }$ Beyond the Standard Model
• Kaon Decays in the Standard Model
• Two-Loop Electroweak Corrections for the K -> pi nu anti-nu Decays
• Physics with the KLOE-2 experiment at the upgraded DA$\varphi$NE
• An evaluation of |Vus| and precise tests of the Standard Model from world data on leptonic and semileptonic kaon decays
• New limit on the lepton-flavour violating decay mu -> e gamma
• A precision measurement of direct CP violation in the decay of neutral kaons into two pions
• Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order Charm-Quark Contribution to the CP Violation Parameter epsilon_K and Delta M_K
• Correlations among new CP violating effects in Delta F = 2 observables
• Improved estimates of rare K decay matrix-elements from Kl3 decays
• The Standard Model prediction for R_{e/mu}^{(pi,K)}
• Possible Indications of New Physics in Bd-mixing and in sin(2 beta) Determinations
• Precise Measurements of Direct CP Violation, CPT Symmetry, and Other Parameters in the Neutral Kaon System
• Charm Quark Contribution to K+ -> pi+ nu anti-nu at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order
• Measurements of Direct CP Violation, CPT Symmetry, and Other Parameters in the Neutral Kaon System
• On the short-distance constraints from K_{L,S} -> mu^+ mu^-
• The pi pi S-wave scattering lengths
• The MiniBooNE anomaly and heavy neutrino decay
• Evidence for the Decay K+ --> pi+ nu anti-nu
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• Cusps in K --> 3 pi decays
• Search for the Rare Decay KL --> pi0 ee
• A precise measurement of the direct CP violation parameter Re(epsilon'/epsilon)
• High statistics measurement of Ke4 decay properties
• Determination of the a0-a2 pion scattering length from K->pi+ pi0 pi0 decay
• B, D and K decays
• FCNC portals to the dark sector
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• New, high statistics measurement of the K+ -> pi0 e+ nu (Ke3) branching ratio
• New measurement of the K+- --> pi+-mu+mu- decay
• Precise measurement of the K+- --> pi+-e+e- decay
• Determination of the S-wave pi pi scattering lengths from a study of K+- -> pi+- pi0 pi0 decays
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• Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays of the Neutral Kaon
• Isospin breaking in Kl4 decays
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• Observation of the rare decay Ks->pi0e+e-
• K -> pi gamma decays and space-time noncommutativity
• Precise measurement of B(K\to eν(γ))/B(K\to μν(γ)) and study of K\to eνγ
• Final Results from the KTeV Experiment on the Decay KL -> pi0 gamma gamma
• Has HyperCP Observed a Light Higgs Boson?
• Monte Carlo simulation for radiative kaon decays
• Determination of $\pi \pi$ scattering lengths from measurement of ${\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ atom lifetime
• Search for the Decay K_L -> pi^0 nu nubar using pi^0 -> e^+ e^- gamma
• 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
• Observation of the rare decay K_S -> pi^0mu^+mu^-
• Kaon Physics with Light Sgoldstinos and Parity Conservation
• Scalar QED, NLO and PHOTOS Monte Carlo
• An Improved upper limit on the decay K^+ -> pi^+ mu^+ e^-
• Search for the decay K+ to pi+ gamma gamma in the pi+ momentum region P>213 MeV/c
• Test of Lepton Flavour Universality in K+ --> l+nu Decays
• Measurement of K^{0}_{\mu3} form factors
• Electromagnetic corrections to non-leptonic two-body B and D decays
• New limits on effective Majorana neutrino masses from rare kaon decays
• Apparatus for a Search for T-violating Muon Polarization in Stopped-Kaon Decays
• KL -> pi0 nu nu-bar as a Probe of New Physics
• Detailed Study of the KL -> 3pi0 Dalitz Plot
• Radiative Corrections to K^0_{l3} Decays
• Search for a light pseudoscalar particle in the decay $K_L^0\to {\pi }^0{\pi }^{0}X$
• Dispersive analysis of K_{L mu3} and K_{L e3} scalar and vector form factors using KTeV data
• Measurement of the direct emission and interference terms and search for CP violation in the decay K\pm -> π\pmπ^0 g
• Search for the decay K_L-> pi^0 nu nubar
• New physics correlations in rare decays
• The s ---> d gamma decay in and beyond the Standard Model
• Search for the Decay K+ -> pi+ pi0 nu nubar
• Precision Measurement of KS Meson Lifetime with the KLOE detector
• The Physics of DAFNE and KLOE
• Search for the K_S -> e+e- decay with the KLOE detector
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• Search for Heavy Neutrino in K->mu nu_h(nu_h-> nu gamma) Decay at ISTRA+ Setup
• Extraction of Kaon Formfactors from K^- -> mu^- nu_mu gamma Decay at ISTRA+ Setup
• First Observation and Measurement of the Decay K+- -> pi+- e+ e- gamma
• Study of the K0(L) --> pi0 pi0 nu nu-bar decay
• Search for light pseudoscalar sgoldstino in K- decays
• Empirical parameterization of the K+- -> pi+- pi0 pi0 decay Dalitz plot
• Rare B Decays with a HyperCP Particle of Spin One
• Search for the Rare Decays KL->pi0pi0mu+mu- and KL->pi0pi0X0->pi0pi0mu+mu-
• Observation of the radiative kaon decay K- --> mu-pi0gammanu
• The NA62 experiment at CERN: status and perspectives
• First measurement of the T-violating muon polarization in the decay K^+ --> mu^+ nu gamma
• Measurements of the Decay $K_L\to e^{+}{e}^{-}\gamma$
• Measurement of the Decay KL -> pi0 e+ e- gamma
• Search for the decay $K_L^0\to 3\gamma$
• A Study of the Radiative Ke3 Decay and Search for Direct Photon Emission with the KLOE Detector
• Measurement of the K+ -> pi0 mu+ nu_mu gamma Branching Ratio
• Project-X: A new high intensity proton accelerator complext at Fermilab
• Current and future kaon experiments

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• On the amplitudes for the CP-conserving $K^{\pm }(K_S)\to {\pi }^{\pm }({\pi }^0){\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}$ rare decay modes
• $K\to \pi {\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}$ form factor in the Large-N${}_c$ and cut-off regularization method
• Study of $s\to d\nu \bar{\nu }$ rare hyperon decays within the Standard Model and new physics
• Decay rate and asymmetries of ${\Sigma }^{+}\to p{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$
• Top-quark flavor-changing $tqZ$ couplings and rare $\Delta F=1$ processes