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

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physics.ins-det2018

Streamer studies in Resistive Plate Chambers

A. Paoloni, A. Mengucci, M. Spinetti +2

The present paper is meant as an update of the presentation given in a previous Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) workshop, aimed at finding an eco-friendly gas mixture for streamer op…

physics.ins-det2018★ 6 cited

Charge reconstruction in large-area photomultipliers

M. Grassi, M. Montuschi, M. Baldoncini +60

Large-area PhotoMultiplier Tubes (PMT) allow to efficiently instrument Liquid Scintillator (LS) neutrino detectors, where large target masses are pivotal to compensate for neutrino…

physics.ins-det2017★ 2 cited

Gas gap studies about streamer operated RPCs

A. Paoloni, A. Mengucci, M. Spinetti +2

The requirement of high rate capability for operation at LHC, led 20 years ago to the achievement of Resistive Plate Chambers operated in avalanche mode, thanks to the introduction…

physics.ins-det2015★ 272 cited

A facility to Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) at the CERN SPS

SHiP Collaboration, M. Anelli, S. Aoki +233

A new general purpose fixed target facility is proposed at the CERN SPS accelerator which is aimed at exploring the domain of hidden particles and make measurements with tau neutri…

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…

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…