Status report of the NA48 experiment at the CERN SPS

TL;DR

The NA48 experiment at CERN SPS aims to precisely measure direct CP violation in neutral kaon decays, leveraging high statistics and improved systematic controls to determine epsilon'/epsilon with high accuracy.

Contribution

This report details the experimental setup, detector performance, and advantages of NA48 over previous experiments in measuring CP violation.

Findings

High-precision measurement of epsilon'/epsilon targeted

Enhanced detector performance and systematic reduction

Achieved high statistical data collection

Abstract

The aim of the NA48 experiment at the CERN SPS is to measure direct CP violation in neutral kaon decays thus determining the parameter $\epsilon'/\epsilon$ with an accuracy of $2\times 10^{-4}$. The advantages of NA48 with respect to previous experiments are high statistics and reduced systematic effects. The principle of the experiment and the performance of the detector components are presented.