Searches for lepton number violating $K^{+}\to {\pi }^{-}({\pi }^0)e^{+}{e}^{+}$ decays

Abstract

Searches for lepton number violating $K^{+}\to {\pi }^{-}{e}^{+}{e}^{+}$ and $K^{+}\to {\pi }^{-}{\pi }^0{e}^{+}{e}^{+}$ decays have been performed using the complete dataset collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2016-2018. Upper limits of $5.3\times 10^{-11}$ and $8.5\times 10^{-10}$ are obtained on the decay branching fractions at 90% confidence level. The former result improves by a factor of four over the previous best limit, while the latter result represents the first limit on the $K^{+}\to {\pi }^{-}{\pi }^0{e}^{+}{e}^{+}$ decay rate.

Updated version (8 May 2022) accepted for publication in Physics Letters B

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• The integrated low-level trigger and readout system of the CERN NA62 experiment