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most citedNeutrino Physics with JUNO

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25 papers

hep-ex2022★ 1 cited

Theia: Summary of physics program. Snowmass White Paper Submission

M. Askins, Z. Bagdasarian, N. Barros +84

Theia would be a novel, "hybrid" optical neutrino detector, with a rich physics program. This paper is intended to provide a brief overview of the concepts and physics reach of The…

hep-ex2021★ 33 cited

First Directional Measurement of sub-MeV Solar Neutrinos with Borexino

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +94

We report the measurement of sub-MeV solar neutrinos through the use of their associated Cherenkov radiation, performed with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del G…

hep-ex2021★ 23 cited

Correlated and Integrated Directionality for sub-MeV solar neutrinos in Borexino

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +94

Liquid scintillator detectors play a central role in the detection of neutrinos from various sources. In particular, it is the only technique used so far for the precision spectros…

physics.ins-det2021★ 12 cited

A container-based facility for testing 20'000 20-inch PMTs for JUNO

Björn Wonsak, Alexander Tietzsch, Tobias Sterr +13

The main goal of the JUNO experiment is the determination of the neutrino mass ordering. To achieve this, an extraordinary energy resolution of at least at MeV is requ…

physics.ins-det2020★ 7 cited

Particle Identification at MeV Energies in JUNO

Livia Ludhova, Henning Rebber, Björn Soenke Wonsak +1

JUNO is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment currently under construction in Jiangmen, China. It is primary aiming to determine the neutrino mass ordering. Moreover, its 20\,kt targ…

physics.ins-det2019★ 139 cited

Theia: An advanced optical neutrino detector

M. Askins, Z. Bagdasarian, N. Barros +75

New developments in liquid scintillators, high-efficiency, fast photon detectors, and chromatic photon sorting have opened up the possibility for building a large-scale detector th…

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…

physics.ins-det2018★ 15 cited

Topological track reconstruction in unsegmented, large-volume liquid scintillator detectors

Björn S. Wonsak, Caren I. Hagner, Dominikus A. Hellgartner +7

Unsegmented, large-volume liquid scintillator (LS) neutrino detectors have proven to be a key technology for low-energy neutrino physics. The efficient rejection of radionuclide ba…

physics.ins-det2015★ 11 cited

Long-Term Stability of Underground Operated CZT Detectors Based on the Analysis of Intrinsic Cd β-Decay

J. Ebert, C. Goessling, D. Gehre +17

The COBRA collaboration operates a demonstrator setup at the underground facility LNGS (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, located in Italy) to prove the technological capabiliti…

physics.ins-det2015★ 1.2k cited

Neutrino Physics with JUNO

Fengpeng An, Guangpeng An, Qi An +224

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a 20 kton multi-purpose underground liquid scintillator detector, was proposed with the determination of the neutrino mass hie…

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…

physics.ins-det2014★ 36 cited

Advanced Scintillator Detector Concept (ASDC): A Concept Paper on the Physics Potential of Water-Based Liquid Scintillator

J. R. Alonso, N. Barros, M. Bergevin +47

The recent development of Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS), and the concurrent development of high-efficiency and high-precision-timing light sensors, has opened up the possi…

hep-ex2014★ 52 cited

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…

hep-ex2014★ 43 cited

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 c…

physics.ins-det2014★ 1 cited

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…

hep-ex2014★ 29 cited

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-scal…

hep-ex2013★ 1 cited

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 the…

hep-ex2013★ 7 cited

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…

hep-ex2012★ 50 cited

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…

hep-ex2012★ 5 cited

Determination of a time-shift in the OPERA set-up using high energy horizontal muons in the LVD and OPERA detectors

N. Yu. Agafonova, P. Antonioli, V. V. Ashikhmin +87

The purpose of this work is to report the measurement of a time-shift in the OPERA set-up in a totally independent way from Time Of Flight (TOF) measurements of CNGS neutrino event…

hep-ex2011★ 490 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2011★ 95 cited

Momentum measurement by the Multiple Coulomb Scattering method in the OPERA lead emulsion target

The OPERA Collaboration

A new method of momentum measurement of charged particles through Multiple Coulomb Scattering (MCS) in the OPERA lead emulsion target is presented. It is based on precise measureme…

hep-ex2010★ 5 cited

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…