Precision Tests of the Standard Model using Kaon Decays

by Dr Evgueni Goudzovski

Thursday 14 Oct 2010, 13:00 → 14:00 Europe/Brussels

E/3rd floor-E.349 - Seminar room (E.349) (Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve))

Kaons, as a minimal flavour laboratory, have been instrumental in establishing the foundations of Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. The focus of the present kaon experiments has shifted towards testing the SM and searching for new physics at ever improving precision. The measurements of semileptonic decays lead to precision CKM unitarity tests. The studues of purely leptonic decay rates place constraints on the SM extensions with two Higgs doublets. Finally, the measurements of ultra-rare decays represent a unique probe into a variety of new physics models. Recent experimental results and prospects of kaon physics will be discussed.