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## The Gigatracker: An ultra-fast and low-mass silicon pixel detector for the NA62 experiment

The Gigatracker is a hybrid silicon pixel detector developed to track the highly intense NA62 hadron beam with a time resolution of 150 ps (rms). The beam spectrometer of the experiment is composed of three Gigatracker stations installed in vacuum in order to precisely measure momentum, time and direction of every traversing particle. Precise tracking demands a very low mass of the detector assembly (o0:5% X0 per station) in order to limit multiple scattering and beam hadronic interactions. The high rate and especially the high timing precision requirements are very demanding: two R&D options are ongoing and the corresponding prototype read-out chips have been recently designed and produced in 0:13 mm CMOS technology. One solution makes use of a constant fraction discriminator and on-pixel analogue-based time-to-digital-converter (TDC)...

## Measurement of the direct emission and interference terms and search for CP violation in the decay K ±→π ± π 0 γ

We report on the measurement of the direct emission (DE) and interference (INT) terms of the K ±→π ± π 0 γ decay by the NA48/2 experiment at the CERN SPS. From the data collected during 2003 and 2004 about 600k such decay candidates have been selected. The relative amounts of DE and INT with respect to the internal bremsstrahlung (IB) contribution have been measured in the range MeV: where is the kinetic energy of the charged pion in the kaon rest frame. This is the first observation of an interference term in K ±→π ± π 0 γ decays, thus allowing the normalised electric and magnetic amplitudes to be measured, giving X E =(−24±6) GeV−4, and X M =(254±9) GeV−4. In addition, a limit on the CP violating asymmetry in the K + and K − branching ratios for this channel has been determined to be less than 1.5×10−3 at 90% confidence level.

## Empirical parameterization of the K±→π±π0π0 decay Dalitz plot

As first observed by the NA48/2 experiment at the CERN SPS, the π0π0 invariant mass (M00) distribution from K±→π±π0π0 decay shows a cusp-like anomaly at M00=2m+, where m+ is the charged pion mass. An analysis to extract the ππ scattering lengths in the isospin I=0 and I=2 states, a0 and a2, respectively, has been recently reported. In the present work the Dalitz plot of this decay is fitted to a new empirical parameterization suitable for practical purposes, such as Monte Carlo simulations of K±→π±π0π0 decays.

## New high statistics measurement of $K_{e4}$ decay form factors and $\pi\pi$ scattering phase shifts

We report results from a new measurement of the $K_{e4}$ decay $K^{\pm} \pi^{+}\pi^{-}e^{\pm}\nu$ by the NA48/2 collaboration at the CERN SPS, based on a partial sample of more than 670 000 $K_{e4}$ decays in both charged modes collected in 2003. The form factors of the hadronic current (F,G,H) and $\pi\pi$ phase difference ($\delta=\delta_s-\delta_p$) have been measured in ten independent bins of the $\pi\pi$ mass spectrum to investigate their variation. A sizeable acceptance at large $\pi\pi$ mass, a low background and a very good resolution contribute to an improved experimental accuracy, a factor two better than in the previous measurement, when extracting the $\pi\pi$ scattering lengths a00 and a20 . Under the assumption of isospin symmetry and using numerical solutions of the Roy equations, the following values are obtained in th...

## First Observation and Measurement of the Decay K+- -> pi+- e+ e- gamma

Using the full data set of the NA48/2 experiment, the decay K+- -> pi+- e+ e- gamma is observed for the first time, selecting 120 candidates with 7.3 +- 1.7 estimated background events. With K+- -> pi+- pi0D as normalisation channel, the branching ratio is determined in a model-independent way to be Br(K+- -> pi+- e+ e- gamma, m_eegamma > 260 MeV/c^2) = (1.19 +- 0.12_stat +- 0.04_syst) x 10^-8. This measured value and the spectrum of the e+ e- gamma invariant mass allow a comparison with predictions of Chiral Perturbation Theory.

## Measurement of the Spin-Dependence of the pbar-p Interaction at the AD-Ring

Comment: 51 pages, 23 figures, proposal submitted to the SPS committee of CERN

## Protons in near earth orbit

The proton spectrum in the kinetic energy range 0.1 to 200 GeV was measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) during space shuttle flight STS-91 at an altitude of 380km. Above the geomagnetic cutoff the observed spectrum is parameterized by a power law. Below the geomagnetic cutoff a substantial second spectrum was observed concentrated at equatorial latitudes with a flux ~70m2s1sr1. Most of these second spectrum protons follow a complicated trajectory and originate from a restricted geographic region.

## Search for antihelium in cosmic rays

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) was flown on the space shuttle Discovery during flight STS-91 in a 51.7 degree orbit at altitudes between 320 and 390 km. A total of 2.86 * 10^6 helium nuclei were observed in the rigidity range 1 to 140 GV. No antihelium nuclei were detected at any rigidity. An upper limit on the flux ratio of antihelium to helium of < 1.1 * 10^-6 is obtained.

## SuperB Progress Reports -- Detector

This report describes the present status of the detector design for SuperB. It is one of four separate progress reports that, taken collectively, describe progress made on the SuperB Project since the publication of the SuperB Conceptual Design Report in 2007 and the Proceedings of SuperB Workshop VI in Valencia in 2008. The other three reports relate to Physics, Accelerator and Computing.