NA62

The NA62 experiment aims to study rare kaon decays, which can give insights into how top quarks decay – and help to check the consistency of the Standard Model

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NA62 experiment at CERN observes ultra-rare particle decay

In the Standard Model of particle physics, the odds of this decay occurring are less than one in 10 billion

Press release
Physics
25 September, 2024
Physics
Press release
25 September, 2024

NA62 announces its first search for long-lived particles

CERN’s kaon factory pushes the energy frontier to probe uncharted territories of many beyond-the-Standard-Model theories

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Physics
09 August, 2024

Dark boson searches at CERN’s North Area

With their latest dark-matter searches, both the NA62 and NA64 experiments start probing several well motivated light dark-matter models

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Experiments
21 August, 2023
Experiments
News
21 August, 2023

NA62 sees first significant evidence of rare process

The result paves the way for searching for signs of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics

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Physics
12 August, 2020

NA62 spots two potential instances of rare particle decay

The NA62 experiment has detected two candidate events for the decay of a positively charged kaon into a pion and a neutrino–antineutrino pair

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Physics
23 September, 2019

CERN’s SPS experiments restart

Experiments resume at CERN’s second-largest accelerator, the Super Proton Synchrotron

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Accelerators
19 April, 2018
Accelerators
News
19 April, 2018

CERN experiment sees hints of a rare kaon decay

The NA62 experiment has observed a candidate event for an ultra-rare charged kaon decay

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Experiments
27 March, 2018

First results published from the new NA62

This first paper improves the limits for heavy neutral lepton production searches in kaon decays

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Experiments
22 December, 2017
Experiments
News
22 December, 2017

A very cool cooling system for NA62

The sensor on the NA62 Gigtracker has a cooling system that might become the precursor to a completely new detector technique

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Experiments
09 September, 2015
Experiments
News
09 September, 2015

LS1 report: NA62 readies for beam

On Wednesday, 10 September, the last NA62 straw tracker chamber was lowered into position in the experiment

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Accelerators
08 October, 2014
Accelerators
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08 October, 2014

New straw trackers for NA62

The NA62 straw tracker is using pioneering CERN technology to measure charged particles from rare kaon decays

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Experiments
11 June, 2012
Experiments
News
11 June, 2012

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