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most citedObservation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors and the NuMI neutrino beam

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physics.ins-det2008★ 314 cited

The magnetized steel and scintillator calorimeters of the MINOS experiment

MINOS Collaboration, D. G. Michael

The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment uses an accelerator-produced neutrino beam to perform precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters…

hep-ex2007★ 184 cited

A Study of Muon Neutrino Disappearance Using the Fermilab Main Injector Neutrino Beam

Michael Kordosky, David Petyt

We report the results of a search for muon-neutrino disappearance by the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search. The experiment uses two detectors separated by 734 km to observe…

hep-ex2007★ 67 cited

Measurement of the Atmospheric Muon Charge Ratio at TeV Energies with MINOS

MINOS Collaboration

The 5.4 kton MINOS far detector has been taking charge-separated cosmic ray muon data since the beginning of August, 2003 at a depth of 2070 meters-water-equivalent in the Soudan U…

hep-ex2007★ 29 cited

Charge-Separated Atmospheric Neutrino-Induced Muons in the MINOS Far Detector

MINOS Collaboration

We found 140 neutrino-induced muons in 854.24 live days in the MINOS far detector. We looked for evidence of neutrino disappearance in this data set by computing the ratio of the n…

hep-ex2006★ 533 cited

Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors and the NuMI neutrino beam

MINOS Collaboration

This letter reports results from the MINOS experiment based on its initial exposure to neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. The rate and energy spectra of charged current muon ne…

hep-ex2005★ 69 cited

First Observations of Separated Atmospheric Muon Neutrino and Muon Anti-Neutrino Events in the MINOS Detector

MINOS Collaboration

The complete 5.4 kton MINOS far detector has been taking data since the beginning of August 2003 at a depth of 2070 meters water-equivalent in the Soudan mine, Minnesota. This pape…

hep-ex2005★ 90 cited

Model Independent Measurement of \swave systems using $\Dp\to Kππ$ Decays from Fermilab E791

E791 Collaboration, E. Aitala

A model-independent partial-wave analysis of the \swave component of the system from decays of mesons to the three-body $\Km\pip\pip$ final state is described. Data co…

hep-ex2003★ 9 cited

Asymmetries in the Production of Lambda0 in 250 GeV/c pi+-, K+- and p -- Nucleon Interactions

G. A. Alves, S. Amato, J. C. Anjos +35

Using data from Fermilab fixed-target experiment E769, we have measured particle-antiparticle production asymmetries for Lambda0 hyperons in 250 GeV/c pi+-, K+- and p -- nucleon in…

hep-ex2002★ 5 cited

The Hadron Hose: Continuous Toroidal Focusing for Conventional Neutrino Beams

J. Hylen, D. Bogert, R. Ducar +17

We have developed a new focusing system for conventional neutrino beams. The ``Hadron Hose'' is a wire located in the meson decay volume, downstream of the target and focusing horn…

hep-ex2002★ 12 cited

Differential cross sections, charge production asymmetry, and spin-density matrix elements for D*(2010) produced in 500 GeV/c pi^- nucleon interactions

Fermilab E791 Collaboration

We report differential cross sections for the production of D*(2010) produced in 500 GeV/c pi^- nucleon interactions from experiment E791 at Fermilab, as functions of Feynman-x (x_…

hep-ex2002★ 66 cited

Search for Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations Using Multiprong Events in Soudan 2

J. Chung

We have searched for neutron-antineutron oscillations using the 5.56 fiducial kiloton-year exposure of the Soudan 2 iron tracking calorimeter. We require candidate n-nbar occurrenc…

hep-ex2000★ 36 cited

Search for Rare and Forbidden Charm Meson Decays D0--> V l+ l- and h h l l

Fermilab E791 Collaboration, E. M. Aitala

We report the results of a search for flavor-changing neutral current, lepton-flavor, and lepton-number violating decays of the 3 and 4-body decay modes of D0 (and its antiparticle…

hep-ex2000★ 100 cited

Observation of color-transparency in diffractive dissociation of pions

E791 Collaboration, E. M. Aitala

We have studied the diffractive dissociation into di-jets of 500 GeV/c pions scattering coherently from carbon and platinum targets. Extrapolating to asymptotically high energies (…

hep-ex2000★ 106 cited

Direct measurement of the pion valence quark momentum distribution, the pion light-cone wave function squared

E791 Collaboration, E. M. Aitala

We present the first direct measurements of the pion valence quark momentum distribution which is related to the square of the pion light-cone wave function. The measurements were…

hep-ex2000★ 2 cited

Fermilab E791

L. M. Cremaldi

Fermilab E791, a very high statistics charm particle experiment, recently completed its data taking at Fermilab's Tagged Photon Laboratory. Over 20 billion events were recorded thr…

hep-ex2000★ 315 cited

Experimental evidence for a light and broad scalar resonance in decay

E791 Collaboration

From a sample of decay, we find . Using a coherent amp…

hep-ex2000★ 11 cited

Search for Nucleon Decay with Final States l+ eta, nubar eta, and nubar pi+,0 Using Soudan 2

D. Wall

We have searched for nucleon decay into five two-body final states using a 4.4 kiloton-year fiducial exposure of the Soudan 2 iron tracking calorimeter. For proton decay into the f…

hep-ex2000★ 4 cited

Observation of D-pi Production Correlations in 500 GeV pi- - N Interactions

FNAL E791 Collaboration, E. M. Aitala, K. Gounder

We study the charge correlations between charm mesons produced in 500 GeV pi- - N interactions and the charged pions produced closest to them in phase space. With 110,000 fully rec…

hep-ex1999★ 25 cited

Multidimensional Resonance Analysis of

E. M. Aitala

We present the results of a five-dimensional resonant amplitude analysis of the system based on reconstructed decays. These data were produced i…

hep-ex1999★ 4 cited

Search for nucleon decay into lepton + K0 final states using Soudan 2

The Soudan 2 Collaboration, D. Wall

A search for nucleon decay into two-body final states containing K^0 mesons has been conducted using the 963 metric ton Soudan 2 iron tracking calorimeter. The topologies, ionizati…

hep-ex1999★ 38 cited

Search for Rare and Forbidden Dilepton Decays of the D+, Ds, and D0 Charmed Mesons

Fermilab Experiment E791 Collaboration, E. M. Aitala

We report the results of a search for flavor-changing neutral current, lepton-flavor violating, and lepton-number violating decays of D+, Ds, and D0 mesons (and their antiparticles…

hep-ex1999★ 11 cited

Total Forward and Differential Cross Sections of Neutral D Mesons Produced in 500 GeV/c -Nucleon Interactions

E791 Collaboration, E. M. Aitala

We measure the neutral D total forward cross section and the differential cross sections as function of Feynman-x () and transverse momentum squared for 500 GeV/c -nucleo…

hep-ex1999★ 14 cited

The Observation of a Shadow of the Moon in the Underground muon flux in the Soudan 2 detector

The Soudan 2 Collaboration, J. H. Cobb et al

A shadow of the moon, with a statistical significance of 5 sigma, has been observed in the underground muon flux at a depth of 2090 mwe using the Soudan 2 detector. The angular res…

hep-ex1999★ 330 cited

The Atmospheric Neutrino Flavor Ratio from a 3.9 Fiducial Kiloton-Year Exposure of Soudan 2

The Soudan 2 Collaboration, W. W. M. Allison

We report a measurement of the atmospheric neutrino flavor ratio, R, using a sample of quasi-elastic neutrino interactions occurring in an iron medium. The flavor ratio (tracks/sho…