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most citedMeasurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam

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physics.ins-det2026

Toward High-Resolution Detection of Target Fragmentation: TEA-Sensitized NIT for Proton Therapy Applications

V. Boccia, T. Asada, A. Alexandrov +96

Nano Imaging Trackers (NIT) are fine-grained nuclear emulsions capable of tracking charged particles with sub-micrometric spatial resolution. The DAMON (Direct Measurement of Targe…

nucl-ex2026

Measurement of 80-200 MeV/n O nuclear cross-section on Carbon and Polyethylene targets with the nuclear emulsion detector of the FOOT experiment

FOOT Collaboration, Giuliana Galati, Vincenzo Boccia +93

Accurate knowledge of nuclear fragmentation cross-sections is essential for optimizing charged particle therapy. In this study, conducted within the framework of the FOOT (Fragment…

hep-ex2026

Measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current cross section with SND@LHC

LHC Collaboration, D. Abbaneo, S. Ahmad +163

We report a measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current (CC) interaction cross section on tungsten using the electronic detectors of the SND@LHC experiment at the CERN Large H…

hep-ex2026

Measurement of the Muon Flux at SND@LHC: Results from the 2023-2025 Proton and Heavy-Ion Periods

LHC Collaboration

The SND@LHC experiment investigates neutrinos in the forward pseudorapidity range. The detector consists of a veto system, a scintillating fiber tracker interleaved…

hep-ex2026

SND@LHC Upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC: Physics Reach and Installation Scenarios

LHC Collaboration

The SND@LHC experiment is currently taking data at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), exploring the unique forward region at pseudorapidities from 7.2 to 8.4. Its physics programme c…

eess.IV2025

Model-Independent Machine Learning Approach for Nanometric Axial Localization and Tracking

Andrey Alexandrov, Giovanni Acampora, Giovanni De Lellis +5

Accurately tracking particles and determining their coordinate along the optical axis is a major challenge in optical microscopy, especially when extremely high precision is needed…

hep-ex2024★ 4 cited

Reconstruction of 400 GeV/c proton interactions with the SHiP-charm project

SHiP Collaboration

The SHiP-charm project was proposed to measure the associated charm production induced by 400 GeV/c protons in a thick target, including the contribution from cascade production. A…

hep-ex2023★ 66 cited

Observation of collider muon neutrinos with the SND@LHC experiment

LHC Collaboration

We report the direct observation of muon neutrino interactions with the SND@LHC detector at the Large Hadron Collider. A data set of proton-proton collisions at …

astro-ph.IM2023★ 8 cited

Directional Sensitivity of the NEWSdm Experiment to Cosmic Ray Boosted Dark Matter

N. Y. Agafonova, A. Alexandrov, A. M. Anokhina +54

We present a study of a directional search for Dark Matter boosted forward when scattered by cosmic-ray nuclei, using a module of the NEWSdm experiment. The boosted Dark Matter flu…

hep-ex2022

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 enlarging…

hep-ex2022

SND@LHC: The Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC

LHC Collaboration

SND@LHC is a compact and stand-alone experiment designed to perform measurements with neutrinos produced at the LHC in the pseudo-rapidity region of . The experimen…

physics.ins-det2021★ 2 cited

Track reconstruction and matching between emulsion and silicon pixel detectors for the SHiP-charm experiment

SHiP Collaboration

In July 2018 an optimization run for the proposed charm cross section measurement for SHiP was performed at the CERN SPS. A heavy, moving target instrumented with nuclear emulsion…

physics.ins-det2021★ 9 cited

Upgrade of the CMS Resistive Plate Chambers for the High Luminosity LHC

A. Samalan, M. Tytgat, G. A. Alves +108

During the upcoming High Luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), the integrated luminosity of the accelerator will increase to 3000 fb. The expected experime…

hep-ex2020★ 42 cited

Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to dark photons decaying to a pair of charged particles

SHiP Collaboration, C. Ahdida, A. Akmete +331

Dark photons are hypothetical massive vector particles that could mix with ordinary photons. The simplest theoretical model is fully characterised by only two parameters: the mass…

physics.ins-det2020★ 2 cited

Towards a two-dimensional readout of the improved CMS Resistive Plate Chamber with a new front-end electronics

Sabino Meola

As part of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment Phase-II upgrade program, new Resistive Plate Chambers will be installed in the forward region. High background conditions are expec…

physics.ins-det2020★ 3 cited

Aging Study on Resistive Plate Chambers of the CMS Muon Detector for HL-LHC

R. Aly

In the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) program, during the next years, the instantaneous luminosity will increase up to 5 10 cm s which…

hep-ex2018

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 200…

hep-ex2018★ 114 cited

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 sampl…

hep-ex2018★ 4 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 37 cited

Discovery potential for directional Dark Matter detection with nuclear emulsions

N. Agafonova, A. Aleksandrov, A. Anokhina +53

Direct Dark Matter searches are nowadays one of the most fervid research topics with many experimental efforts devoted to the search for nuclear recoils induced by the scattering o…

physics.ins-det2017★ 38 cited

The active muon shield in the SHiP experiment

SHiP collaboration, A. Akmete, A. Alexandrov +229

The SHiP experiment is designed to search for very weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model which are produced in a 400 GeV/c proton beam dump at the CERN SPS. An ess…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 33 cited

Intrinsic neutron background of nuclear emulsions for directional Dark Matter searches

A. Alexandrov, T. Asada, A. Buonaura +24

Recent developments of the nuclear emulsion technology led to the production of films with nanometric silver halide grains suitable to track low energy nuclear recoils with submicr…

hep-ex2015★ 163 cited

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 interacti…

hep-ex2015★ 29 cited

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 detecte…