Seminaire de DPNC ================= Vendredi, 24 avril, 1998 14.00 - Auditoire Stuckelberg Universite de Geneve Departement de physique nucleaire et corpusculaire 24, quai Ernest-Ansermet 1211 Geneva 4 Tel. 022 702 6273 Fax. 022 781 2192 ****************************************************************************** Sujet: Evidence for the rare Kaon decay K^+ --> pi^+ nu nubar Par: Dr. Christoph Witzig, Brookhaven National Lab Resume: We report on the search for the rare Kaon decay K^+ --> pi^+ nu nubar done by the E787 collaboration at the AGS at Brookhaven National Laboratory. We give an overview of the theoretical interest in " K^+ --> pi^+ nu nubar" (the branching ratio of this decay is sensitive to the CKM Matrix element V_{td}) and describe the analysis done with the data taken in 1995 [Ref. PRL 79 (1997) 2204]