The NA48 experiment at the CERN SPS

✍ Scribed by Giuseppina Anzivino

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 451 KB
• Volume: 78
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(99)00523-x

✦ Synopsis

For the NA48 Collaboration *

The NA48 experiment at the CERN SPS aims at measuring the direct CP violation parameter, N(e'/s) , in the system of neutral kaons with a precision of ,,~ 2 x 10 -4. The measurement is performed comparing KL and Ks decay rates into pairs of charged and neutral pions. The status of the experiment will be presented: after a description of the apparatus, with special attention to some of its components, the detector performances and the achievements of the 1997 run will be presented together with the improvements of the 1998 run.