A. Bragadireanu

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20102025

most citedA New Measurement of Kaonic Hydrogen X rays

384 citations · 1.4k across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

hep-ex2025

Searches for hidden sectors using $K^{+} \to π^{+} X$ decays

NA62 Collaboration

Results from the study of the rare decays $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν ν ˉ$ , $K^{+} \to π^{+} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ and $K^{+} \to π^{+} γ γ$ at the NA62 experiment at CERN are interpreted in terms…

hep-ph2025

Kaon Physics: A Cornerstone for Future Discoveries

Jason Aebischer, Atakan Tugberk Akmete, Riccardo Aliberti +153

The kaon physics programme, long heralded as a cutting-edge frontier by the European Strategy for Particle Physics, continues to stand at the intersection of discovery and innovati…

hep-ex2025★ 5 cited

Search for hadronic decays of feebly-interacting particles at NA62

NA62 Collaboration

The NA62 experiment at CERN has the capability to collect data in a beam-dump mode, where 400 GeV protons are dumped on an absorber. In this configuration, New Physics particles, i…

hep-ex2024★ 13 cited

Observation of the $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν ν ˉ$ decay and measurement of its branching ratio

NA62 Collaboration

A measurement of the $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν ν ˉ$ decay by the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is presented, using data collected in 2021 and 2022. This dataset was recorded, afte…

hep-ex2024★ 3 cited

First detection of a tagged neutrino in the NA62 experiment

NA62 Collaboration

The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS reports the first detection of a tagged neutrino candidate based on the data collected in 2022. The candidate consists of a $K^+ \rightarrow μ^+…

hep-ex2023

Development of a new CEDAR for kaon identification at the NA62 experiment at CERN

The NA62 Collaboration

The NA62 experiment at CERN utilises a differential Cherenkov counter with achromatic ring focus (CEDAR) for tagging kaons within an unseparated monochromatic beam of charged hadro…

hep-ex2023★ 10 cited

Search for Leptonic Decays of Dark Photons at NA62

The NA62 collaboration

The NA62 experiment at CERN, configured in beam-dump mode, has searched for dark photon decays in flight to electron-positron pairs using a sample of $1.4 \times 1 0^{17}$ protons on…

hep-ex2023★ 5 cited

A study of the $K^{+} \to π^{0} e^{+} ν γ$ decay

The NA62 Collaboration

A sample of $1.3 \times 1 0^{5}$ $K^{+} \to π^{0} e^{+} ν γ$ candidates with less than 1% background was collected by the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS in 2017-2018. Branching fraction mea…

hep-ex2022★ 15 cited

A measurement of the $K^{+} \to π^{+} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ decay

NA62 Collaboration

A sample of $2.8 \times 1 0^{4}$ $K^{+} \to π^{+} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ candidates with negligible background was collected by the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS in 2017--2018. The model-inde…

hep-ex2022★ 3 cited

Performance of the NA62 trigger system

The NA62 Collaboration

The NA62 experiment at CERN targets the measurement of the ultra-rare $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν ν ˉ$ decay, and carries out a broad physics programme that includes probes for symmetry vio…

hep-ex2022★ 19 cited

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

NA62 collaboration

Searches for lepton number violating $K^{+} \to π^{-} e^{+} e^{+}$ and $K^{+} \to π^{-} π^{0} e^{+} e^{+}$ decays have been performed using the complete dataset collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 20…

hep-ex2021★ 28 cited

Search for lepton number and flavour violation in $K^{+}$ and $π^{0}$ decays

NA62 Collaboration

Searches for the lepton number violating $K^{+} \to π^{-} μ^{+} e^{+}$ decay and the lepton flavour violating $K^{+} \to π^{+} μ^{-} e^{+}$ and $π^{0} \rightarrow μ…

hep-ex2021★ 155 cited

Measurement of the very rare $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν ν ˉ$ decay

NA62 Collaboration

The NA62 experiment reports the branching ratio measurement BR $(K^{+} \to π^{+} ν ν ˉ) = (10. 6_{- 3.4}^{+ 4.0} ∣_{stat} \pm 0. 9_{syst}) \times 1 0^{- 11}$ at 68% CL, base…

hep-ex2020★ 82 cited

Search for heavy neutral lepton production in $K^{+}$ decays to positrons

NA62 collaboration

A search for heavy neutral lepton ( $N$ ) production in $K^{+} \to e^{+} N$ decays using the data sample collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2017--2018 is reported. Upper limits of…

hep-ex2019★ 46 cited

Searches for lepton number violating $K^{+}$ decays

NA62 collaboration

The NA62 experiment at CERN reports a search for the lepton number violating decays $K^{+} \to π^{-} e^{+} e^{+}$ and $K^{+} \to π^{-} μ^{+} μ^{+}$ using a data sample collected in 2017. No signals are ob…

hep-ex2019★ 72 cited

Search for production of an invisible dark photon in $π^{0}$ decays

NA62 collaboration

The results of a search for $π^{0}$ decays to a photon and an invisible massive dark photon at the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS are reported. From a total of $4.12 \times 1 0^{8}$ tagg…

hep-ex2018★ 71 cited

First search for $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν ν ˉ$ using the decay-in-flight technique

NA62 collaboration

The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS reports the first search for $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν ν ˉ$ using the decay-in-flight technique, based on a sample of $1.21 \times 1 0^{11}$ $K^{+}$ de…

physics.ins-det2018★ 1 cited

Detector setup of the VIP2 Underground Experiment at LNGS

J. Marton, A. Pichler, H. Shi +25

The VIP2 experiment tests the Pauli Exclusion Principle with high sensitivity, by searching for Pauli-forbidden atomic transitions from the 2p to the 1s shell in copper at about 8k…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 23 cited

Experimental search for the violation of Pauli Exclusion Principle

H. Shi, E. Milotti, S. Bartalucci +25

The VIolation of Pauli exclusion principle -2 experiment, or VIP-2 experiment, at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso searches for x-rays from copper atomic transition that are…

nucl-ex2018★ 3 cited

The kaonic atoms research program at DAΦNE: from SIDDHARTA to SIDDHARTA-2

A. Scordo, A. Amirkhani, M. Bazzi +31

The interaction of antikaons with nucleons and nuclei in the low-energy regime represents an active research field in hadron physics with still many important open questions. The i…

quant-ph2017★ 1 cited

Underground tests of quantum mechanics. Whispers in the cosmic silence?

C. Curceanu, S. Bartalucci, A. Bassi +25

By performing X-rays measurements in the "cosmic silence" of the underground laboratory of Gran Sasso, LNGS-INFN, we test a basic principle of quantum mechanics: the Pauli Exclusio…

nucl-ex2016★ 15 cited

$K$ -series X-ray yield measurement of kaonic hydrogen atoms in a gaseous target

M. Bazzi, G. Beer, G. Bellotti +29

We measured the $K$ -series X-rays of the $K^{-} p$ exotic atom in the SIDDHARTA experiment with a gaseous hydrogen target of 1.3 g/l, which is about 15 times the $ρ_{STP}$ of hy…

nucl-ex2016★ 1 cited

Strong interaction studies with kaonic atoms

J. Marton, M. Bazzi, G. Beer +30

The strong interaction of antikaons with nucleons and nuclei in the low-energy regime represents an active research field connected intrinsically with few-body physics. There are i…

quant-ph2016★ 17 cited

Spontaneously emitted X-rays: an experimental signature of the dynamical reduction models

C. Curceanu, S. Bartalucci, A. Bassi +29

We present the idea of searching for X-rays as a signature of the mechanism inducing the spontaneous collapse of the wave function. Such a signal is predicted by the continuous spo…

Searches for hidden sectors using K+→π+X decays

Kaon Physics: A Cornerstone for Future Discoveries

Search for hadronic decays of feebly-interacting particles at NA62

Observation of the K+→π+ννˉ decay and measurement of its branching ratio

First detection of a tagged neutrino in the NA62 experiment

Development of a new CEDAR for kaon identification at the NA62 experiment at CERN

Search for Leptonic Decays of Dark Photons at NA62

A study of the K+→π0e+νγ decay

A measurement of the K+→π+μ+μ− decay

Performance of the NA62 trigger system

Searches for lepton number violating K+→π−(π0)e+e+ decays

Search for lepton number and flavour violation in K+ and π0 decays

Measurement of the very rare K+→π+ννˉ decay

Search for heavy neutral lepton production in K+ decays to positrons

Searches for lepton number violating K+ decays

Search for production of an invisible dark photon in π0 decays

First search for K+→π+ννˉ using the decay-in-flight technique

Detector setup of the VIP2 Underground Experiment at LNGS

Experimental search for the violation of Pauli Exclusion Principle

The kaonic atoms research program at DAΦNE: from SIDDHARTA to SIDDHARTA-2

Underground tests of quantum mechanics. Whispers in the cosmic silence?

K-series X-ray yield measurement of kaonic hydrogen atoms in a gaseous target

Strong interaction studies with kaonic atoms

Spontaneously emitted X-rays: an experimental signature of the dynamical reduction models

Searches for hidden sectors using $K^{+} \to π^{+} X$ decays

Observation of the $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν ν ˉ$ decay and measurement of its branching ratio

A study of the $K^{+} \to π^{0} e^{+} ν γ$ decay

A measurement of the $K^{+} \to π^{+} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ decay

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

Search for lepton number and flavour violation in $K^{+}$ and $π^{0}$ decays

Measurement of the very rare $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν ν ˉ$ decay

Search for heavy neutral lepton production in $K^{+}$ decays to positrons

Searches for lepton number violating $K^{+}$ decays

Search for production of an invisible dark photon in $π^{0}$ decays

First search for $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν ν ˉ$ using the decay-in-flight technique

$K$ -series X-ray yield measurement of kaonic hydrogen atoms in a gaseous target