Status and prospects of rare decay searches at NA62
G. Tinti*  on behalf of the NA62 Collaboration
*: corresponding author
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Published on: December 05, 2025
Abstract
The $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \overline{\nu}$ decay is a golden mode for flavour physics. Its branching ratio is predicted with high precision by the Standard Model to be less than $10^{-10}$, and this decay mode is highly sensitive to indirect effects of new physics up to the highest mass scales. A new measurement of the $K^{+}\rightarrow\pi^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ decay by the NA62 experiment at
CERN using data collected in 2021 and 2022 is presented. This new
dataset was collected after modifications to the beamline and detectors and at a higher instantaneous beam intensity with respect to the previous 2016$-$2018 data taking. Using the complete datasets from 2016$-$2022, for the first time, the $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \overline{\nu}$ decay is observed with a significance exceeding $5\sigma$.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.489.0020
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