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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…
New high-precision measurement system for electron-positron pairs from sub-GeV/GeV gamma-rays in the emulsion telescope
Yuya Nakamura, Shigeki Aoki, Tomohiro Hayakawa +27
The GRAINE project observes cosmic gamma-rays, using a balloon-borne emulsion-film-based telescope in the sub-GeV/GeV energy band. We reported in our previous balloon experiment in…
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…
Investigation of the neutron imaging applications using fine-grained nuclear emulsion
Abdul Muneem, Junya Yoshida, Hiroyuki Ekawa +11
Neutron imaging is a non-destructive inspection technique with a wide range of applications. One of the important aspects concerning neutron imaging is achieving micrometer-scale s…
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…
A Novel Nuclear Emulsion Detector for Measurement of Quantum States of Ultracold Neutrons in the Earth's Gravitational Field
Naoto Muto, Hartmut Abele, Tomoko Ariga +19
Hypothetical short-range interactions could be detected by measuring the wavefunctions of ultracold neutrons (UCNs) on a mirror bounded by the Earth's gravitational field. The Sear…
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…
A measurement of proton-carbon forward scattering in a proof-of-principle test of the EMPHATIC spectrometer
M. Pavin, L. Aliaga-Soplin, M. Barbi +30
The next generation of long-baseline neutrino experiments will be capable of precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters, precision neutrino-nucleus scattering, and u…
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…
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…
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…
EMPHATIC: A proposed experiment to measure hadron scattering and productioncross sections for improved neutrino flux predictions
T. Akaishi, L. Aliaga-Soplin, H. Asano +47
Hadron scattering and production uncertainties are a limiting systematic on accelerator and at-mospheric neutrino flux predictions. New hadron measurements are necessary for neutri…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Cold/Ultracold Neutron Detector using Fine-grained Nuclear Emulsion with Spatial Resolution less than 100 nm
N. Naganawa, T. Ariga, S. Awano +9
A new type of cold/ultracold neutron detector that can realize a spatial resolution of less than 100 nm was developed using nuclear emulsion. The detector consists of a fine-graine…
Fundamental physics activities with pulsed neutron at J-PARC(BL05)
Kenji Mishima, Shogo Awano, Yasuhiro Fuwa +37
"Neutron Optics and Physics (NOP/ BL05)" at MLF in J-PARC is a beamline for studies of fundamental physics. The beamline is divided into three branches so that different experiment…
First demonstration of gamma-ray imaging using balloon-borne emulsion telescope
Hiroki Rokujo, Shigeki Aoki, Kaname Hamada +30
We promote the precise gamma-ray observation project Gamma-Ray Astro-Imager with Nuclear Emulsion (GRAINE), which uses balloon-borne emulsion gamma-ray telescopes. The emulsion tel…
First demonstration of emulsion multi-stage shifter for accelerator neutrino experiment in J-PARC T60
K. Yamada, S. Aoki, S. Cao +47
We describe the first ever implementation of an emulsion multi-stage shifter in an accelerator neutrino experiment. The system was installed in the neutrino monitor building in J-P…