The NA62 experiment at CERN

The goal of the NA62 experiment at CERN is to collect O(100) events of the ultrarare K\(^{+}\rightarrow \pi ^{+}\nu \bar {\nu }\) decay in two years. After a long R&D phase and a successful pilot run in 2014, the first data-taking phase took place in 2015. In this paper the importance of the experiment’s physics goal, as well as the experimental solutions adopted in order to attain it, will be reviewed.