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The SND@LHC neutron shielding
LHC Collaboration
The design and construction of a neutron shielding for the SND@LHC detector, which utilizes a combination of plexiglass and borated polyethylene, is presented. FLUKA simulations we…
Input from the SND@LHC collaboration to the 2026 Update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics
LHC collaboration
By observing collider neutrino interactions of different flavours, the SND@LHC and Faser experiments have shown that the LHC can make interesting contributions to neutrino physics.…
Observation of collider neutrinos without final state muons with the SND@LHC experiment
LHC Collaboration
We report the observation of neutrino interactions without final state muons at the LHC, with a significance of 6.4. A data set of proton-proton collisions at …
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…
Measurement of the muon flux at the SND@LHC experiment
LHC Collaboration
The Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC (\SND) started taking data at the beginning of Run 3 of the LHC. The experiment is designed to perform measurements with neutrinos p…
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…
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…
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…
The SHiP experiment at the proposed CERN SPS Beam Dump Facility
SHIP Collaboration
The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has proposed a general-purpose experimental facility operating in beam-dump mode at the CERN SPS accelerator to search for ligh…
First observation of a nuclear -state of hypernucleus,
M. Yoshimoto, J. K. Ahn, B. Bassalleck +46
Bound-systems of -- are studied via capture at rest followed by emission of a twin single- hypernucleus in the emulsion detectors. Two events forming…
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…
SND@LHC
SHiP Collaboration, C. Ahdida, A. Akmete +341
We propose to build and operate a detector that, for the first time, will measure the process at the LHC and search for feebly interacting particles (FIPs) in an unexplor…
Measurement of the muon flux for the SHiP experiment
SHiP Collaboration
The SHiP experiment will search for very weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model which are produced in a 400 \GeV/ proton beam dump at the CERN SPS. About $10^{11…
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…
Observation of a Be double-Lambda hypernucleus in the J-PARC E07 experiment
H. Ekawa, K. Agari, J. K. Ahn +100
A double- hypernucleus, , was observed by the J-PARC E07 collaboration in nuclear emulsions tagged by the reaction. This event was interprete…
Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to Heavy Neutral Leptons
SHiP Collaboration
Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model. These particles can, among other things, explain the origin of 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 identi…
Search for oscillation with the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam
The OPERA Collaboration
The OPERA neutrino experiment in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) was designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the…
Measurement of charm production in neutrino charged-current interactions
A. Kayis-Topaksu, G. Önengüt, 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…