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hep-ex2026

Measurement of reconstructed final-state kinematics in charged-current interactions on water using the J-PARC beam and NINJA emulsion detector

NINJA Collaboration, A. Kasumi, S. Han +50

We present a study of charged-particle multiplicities and the kinematic distributions of muons, protons, and charged pions in a flux-integrated sample of charged-current inclusive…

hep-ex2026

Electromagnetic Shower Reconstruction and Identification in FASER's Emulsion Detector for LHC Forward Neutrino Measurements

FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai +132

We present methods for electromagnetic shower reconstruction and identification in the FASERnu emulsion detector using 100 GeV and 200 GeV electron test-beam data from the CERN SPS…

hep-ex2026

Momentum Measurement of Charged Particles in FASER's Emulsion Detector at the LHC

FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai +132

We present a momentum measurement method based on multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) in the FASER emulsion detector. The measurement of charged-particle momenta is essential for…

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

Letter of Intent: The Forward Physics Facility

Luis A. Anchordoqui, John K. Anders, Akitaka Ariga +111

The Forward Physics Facility (FPF) is a proposed extension of the HL-LHC program designed to exploit the unique scientific opportunities offered by the intense flux of high energy…

hep-ex2025★ 2 cited

Latest neutrino results from the FASER experiment and their implications for forward hadron production

FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai +117

The muon puzzle -- an excess of muons relative to simulation predictions in ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray air showers -- has been reported by many experiments. This suggests that fo…

hep-ex2025

Prospects and Opportunities with an upgraded FASER Neutrino Detector during the HL-LHC era: Input to the EPPSU

FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai +115

The FASER experiment at CERN has opened a new window in collider neutrino physics by detecting TeV-energy neutrinos produced in the forward direction at the LHC. Building on this s…

hep-ex2024★ 18 cited

First Measurement of the Muon Neutrino Interaction Cross Section and Flux as a Function of Energy at the LHC with FASER

FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai +107

This letter presents the measurement of the energy-dependent neutrino-nucleon cross section in tungsten and the differential flux of muon neutrinos and anti-neutrinos. The analysis…

hep-ex2024

Shining Light on the Dark Sector: Search for Axion-like Particles and Other New Physics in Photonic Final States with FASER

FASER collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai +106

The first FASER search for a light, long-lived particle decaying into a pair of photons is reported. The search uses LHC proton-proton collision data at …

hep-ex2024

Neutrino Rate Predictions for FASER

FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, John Anders +97

The Forward Search Experiment (FASER) at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has recently directly detected the first collider neutrinos. Neutrinos play an important role in all FAS…

hep-ex2023★ 52 cited

Search for Dark Photons with the FASER detector at the LHC

FASER Collaboration

The FASER experiment at the LHC is designed to search for light, weakly-interacting particles produced in proton-proton collisions at the ATLAS interaction point that travel in the…

hep-ex2023★ 95 cited

First Direct Observation of Collider Neutrinos with FASER at the LHC

FASER Collaboration, Henso Abreu, John Anders +85

We report the first direct observation of neutrino interactions at a particle collider experiment. Neutrino candidate events are identified in a 13.6 TeV center-of-mass energy …

hep-ex2022

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…

hep-ex2022★ 1 cited

The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC

Jonathan L. Feng, Felix Kling, Mary Hall Reno +233

High energy collisions at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produce a large number of particles along the beam collision axis, outside of the acceptance of existing L…

hep-ex2022★ 4 cited

Measurements of protons and charged pions emitted from charged-current interactions on iron at a mean neutrino energy of 1.49GeV using a nuclear emulsion detector

H. Oshima, T. Matsuo, A. Ali +45

This study conducted an analysis of muons, protons, and charged pions emitted from charged-current interactions on iron using a nuclear emulsion detector. The emulsion detect…

hep-ex2021★ 2 cited

First neutrino interaction candidates at the LHC

FASER Collaboration, Henso Abreu, Yoav Afik +73

FASER at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to directly detect collider neutrinos for the first time and study their cross sections at TeV energies, where no such…

hep-ex2020★ 9 cited

First measurement using a nuclear emulsion detector of the charged-current cross section on iron around the 1GeV energy region

H. Oshima, T. Matsuo, A. Ali +43

We have carried out charged-current interaction measurement on iron using an emulsion detector exposed to the T2K neutrino beam in the J-PARC neutrino facility. The data samp…

hep-ex2020★ 33 cited

First measurement of and charged-current inclusive interactions on water using a nuclear emulsion detector

A. Hiramoto, Y. Suzuki, A. Ali +40

This paper reports the track multiplicity and kinematics of muons, charged pions, and protons from charged-current inclusive and interactions on a water target, mea…

hep-ex2019★ 3 cited

First observation of a tau neutrino charged current interaction with charm production in the Opera experiment

N. Agafonova, A. Alexandrov, A. Anokhina +124

An event topology with two secondary vertices compatible with the decay of short-lived particles was found in the analysis of neutrino interactions in the Opera target. The observe…

hep-ex2019★ 40 cited

DsTau: Study of tau neutrino production with 400 GeV protons from the CERN-SPS

Shigeki Aoki, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga +27

In the DsTau experiment at the CERN SPS, an independent and direct way to measure tau neutrino production following high energy proton interactions was proposed. As the main source…

hep-ex2019★ 21 cited

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…

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★ 18 cited

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…

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…

hep-ex2018★ 4 cited

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…