Publications (20)
First observation of a tau neutrino charged current interaction with charm production in the Opera experiment
N. Agafonova, A. Alexandrov, A. Anokhina +124
An event topology with two secondary vertices compatible with the decay of short-lived particles was found in the analysis of neutrino interactions in the Opera target. The observe…
Evidence for appearance in the CNGS neutrino beam with the OPERA experiment
N. Agafonova, A. Aleksandrov, A. Anokhina +168
The OPERA experiment is designed to search for oscillations in appearance mode i.e. through the direct observation of the lepton in charged c…
Final results on neutrino oscillation parameters from the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam
OPERA Collaboration, N. Agafonova, A. Alexandrov +124
The OPERA experiment has conclusively observed the appearance of tau neutrinos in the muon neutrino CNGS beam. Exploiting the OPERA detector capabilities, it was possible to isolat…
Updated constraints on sterile neutrino mixing in the OPERA experiment using a new identification method
N. Agafonova, A. Alexandrov, A. Anokhina +123
This paper describes a new identification method specifically designed to improve the low-energy () identification efficiency attained by enlargin…
Procedure for short-lived particle detection in the OPERA experiment and its application to charm decays
N. Agafonova, A. Anokhina, S. Aoki +135
The OPERA experiment, designed to perform the first observation of oscillations in appearance mode through the detection of the leptons produced in $Î…
Measurement of TeV atmospheric muon charge ratio with the full OPERA data
N. Agafonova, A. Anokhina, S. Aoki +134
The OPERA detector, designed to search for oscillations in the CNGS beam, is located in the underground Gran Sasso laboratory, a privileged location to study TeV-…
Observation of nu_tau appearance in the CNGS beam with the OPERA experiment
OPERA Collaboration, N. Agafonova, A. Aleksandrov +145
The OPERA experiment is searching for nu_mu -> nu_tau oscillations in appearance mode i.e. via the direct detection of tau leptons in nu_tau charged current interactions. The evide…
Determination of the muon charge sign with the dipolar spectrometers of the OPERA experiment
OPERA Collaboration, N. Agafonova, A. Aleksandrov +141
The OPERA long-baseline neutrino-oscillation experiment has observed the direct appearance of in the CNGS beam. Two large muon magnetic spectrometers are used to id…
Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
The OPERA Collaboration, T. Adam, N. Agafonova +188
The OPERA neutrino experiment at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory has measured the velocity of neutrinos from the CERN CNGS beam over a baseline of about 730 km. The measureme…
New results on appearance with the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam
OPERA Collaboration, N. Agafonova, A. Aleksandrov +167
The OPERA neutrino experiment is designed to perform the first observation of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the channel, via the detection of…
Limits on muon-neutrino to tau-neutrino oscillations induced by a sterile neutrino state obtained by OPERA at the CNGS beam
OPERA Collaboration, N. Agafonova, A. Aleksandrov +128
The OPERA experiment, exposed to the CERN to Gran Sasso beam, collected data from 2008 to 2012. Four oscillated Charged Current interaction candidates have been det…
Latest results of the OPERA experiment on nu-tau appearance in the CNGS neutrino beam
N. Agafonova, A. Alexandrov, A. Anokhina +132
OPERA is a long-baseline experiment designed to search for oscillations in appearance mode. It was based at the INFN Gran Sasso laboratory (LNGS) and took data from…
Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam using the 2012 dedicated data
The OPERA Collaboration, T. Adam, N. Agafonova +168
In spring 2012 CERN provided two weeks of a short bunch proton beam dedicated to the neutrino velocity measurement over a distance of 730 km. The OPERA neutrino experiment at the u…
Measurement of charm production in neutrino charged-current interactions
A. Kayis-Topaksu, G. Ãnengüt, R. van Dantzig +85
The nuclear emulsion target of the CHORUS detector was exposed to the wide-band neutrino beam of the CERN SPS of 27 GeV average neutrino energy from 1994 to 1997. In total about 10…
Discovery of tau neutrino appearance in the CNGS neutrino beam with the OPERA experiment
OPERA Collaboration, N. Agafonova, A. Aleksandrov +139
The OPERA experiment was designed to search for oscillations in appearance mode, i.e. by detecting the -leptons produced in charged current in…
Measurement of the atmospheric muon charge ratio with the OPERA detector
OPERA Collaboration, N. Agafonova, A. Anokhina +182
The OPERA detector at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (LNGS) was used to measure the atmospheric muon charge ratio in the TeV energy region. We analyzed 403069 atmospheric mu…
Final results of the search for oscillations with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
OPERA Collaboration, N. Agafonova, A. Aleksandrov +130
The OPERA experiment has discovered the tau neutrino appearance in the CNGS muon neutrino beam, in agreement with the 3 neutrino flavour oscillation hypothesis. The OPERA neutrino…
Measurement of the cosmic ray muon flux seasonal variation with the OPERA detector
N. Agafonova, A. Alexandrov, A. Anokhina +125
The OPERA experiment discovered muon neutrino into tau neutrino oscillations in appearance mode, detecting tau leptons by means of nuclear emulsion films. The apparatus was also en…
Final results of the OPERA experiment on appearance in the CNGS beam
OPERA Collaboration, N. Agafonova, A. Alexandrov +134
The OPERA experiment was designed to study oscillations in appearance mode in the CNGS neutrino beam. In this letter we report the final analysis of the full data s…
Search for oscillations with the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam
OPERA collaboration, N. Agafonova, A. Aleksandrov +161
A first result of the search for \numu \nue oscillations in the OPERA experiment, located at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory, is presented. The experiment looke…