[Submitted on 27 Mar 2024] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Prospects for PIONEER
Pion decay, , offers a pristine way to measure the CKM matrix element in a purely mesonic system, with excellent control over the hadronic matrix elements. We review the physics goals and current status of the PIONEER experiment, which aims at major improvements in the branching fractions for the decay in Phase I and for pion decay in Phases II and III of its experimental program, potentially leading to a measurement of competitive with determinations from decays involving nucleons.
- Comments:
- 6+3 pages, 4 figures; presented at the 12th Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, 18-22 September 2023, Santiago de Compostela
- Subjects:
- High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
- arXiv:
- 2403.18889 [pdf]