OKA (Russian: ОКА — Опыты с КАонами, in liberal translation "Observations of KAons") is a particle physics detector experiment at the U-70 accelerator in the Institute for High Energy Physics located in Protvino near Moscow (Russia). OKA is specialized experiment with separated charge kaons beam.
Superconducting high radio-frequency separator produces a beam of charged kaons intensity (4 ÷ 6) · 106 K for a cycle with momenta 12.5 and 18 GeV. Experimental complex includes the decay volume with veto system, the wide-aperture magnetic spectrometer consists of a set of proportional chambers, straw tubes, drift tubes and hodoscope, the Cherenkov counters for charged particle identification, the electromagnetic calorimeter known as GAMS-2000 detector, the total absorption hadron calorimeter and the muon counters.
The research program of the experiment has the following items:
The sensitivity of the OKA experiment will enable to observe decays with branching fractions of about 10−8.