Very Rare Kaon Decays (Physics)

这一行动将为布鲁克黑文国家实验室(E791)继续开发和运行一项研究非常罕见的介子衰变的实验提供资金。这项实验在大约三年半前得到了布鲁克海文的高度优先考虑。这项实验将检验我们目前对目前公认的电弱相互作用“标准模型”的理解的局限性。标准模型最近在数量上取得了巨大的成功，但众所周知是不完整的。对介子衰变为带电轻子对的拟议研究将为许多拟议的“标准模型”的扩展提供指导。如果观察到这些衰变模式，那将是一项重大发现。

This action will provide funds for the continued development and operation of an experiment to study very rare kaon decays at Brookhaven National Laboratory (E791). The experiment was approved about three and one half years ago with very high priority by Brookhaven. The experiment will test the limitations of our present understanding of the currently accepted "standard model" of the electro-weak interaction. The standard model has recently had great quantitative success but is known to be incomplete. The proposed search for the decay of kaons into pairs of charged leptons would provide guidance about the many proposed extensions of the "standard model". If these decay modes were observed, it would constitute a major discovery.