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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
First direction sensitive search for dark matter with a nuclear emulsion detector at a surface site
Atsuhiro Umemoto, Tatsuhiro Naka, Takuya Shiraishi +8
Fine-grained nuclear emulsion films have been developed as a tracking detector with nanometric spatial resolution to be used in direction-sensitive dark matter searches, thanks to…
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 …
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…
Super-resolution imaging for the detection of low-energy ion tracks in fine-grained nuclear emulsions
Andrey Alexandrov, Takashi Asada, Fabio Borbone +2
We propose a new wide-field imaging method that exploits the Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance phenomenon to produce super-resolution images with an optical microscope equipped w…
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…
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…
Environmental sub-MeV neutron measurement at the Gran Sasso surface laboratory with a super-fine-grained nuclear emulsion detector
T. Shiraishi, S. Akamatsu, T. Naka +8
The measurement of environmental neutrons is particularly important in the search for new physics, such as dark matter particles, because neutrons constitute an often-irreducible b…
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…
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…
The Forward Physics Facility: Sites, Experiments, and Physics Potential
Luis A. Anchordoqui, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga +78
The Forward Physics Facility (FPF) is a proposal to create a cavern with the space and infrastructure to support a suite of far-forward experiments at the Large Hadron Collider dur…
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…
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…
Deep learning for Directional Dark Matter search
Artem Golovatiuk, Giovanni De Lellis, Andrey Ustyuzhanin
We provide an algorithm for detection of possible dark matter particle interactions recorded within NEWSdm detector. The NEWSdm (Nuclear Emulsions for WIMP Search directional measu…
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…
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…
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…
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…