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most citedDiscovery of a big void in Khufu's Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons

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29 papers

hep-ex2024★ 4 cited

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…

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…

physics.ins-det2021★ 2 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2021

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…

physics.ins-det2020★ 18 cited

SND@LHC

SHiP Collaboration, C. Ahdida, A. Akmete +341

We propose to build and operate a detector that, for the first time, will measure the process at the LHC and search for feebly interacting particles (FIPs) in an unexplor…

physics.ins-det2020★ 3 cited

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…

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★ 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-ph2018

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…

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…

physics.ins-det2017★ 490 cited

Discovery of a big void in Khufu's Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons

Kunihiro Morishima, Mitsuaki Kuno, Akira Nishio +31

The Great Pyramid or Khufu's Pyramid was built on the Giza Plateau (Egypt) during the IVth dynasty by the pharaoh Khufu (Cheops), who reigned from 2509 to 2483 BC. Despite being on…

physics.ins-det2017★ 1 cited

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…

hep-ex2017★ 12 cited

First neutrino event detection with nuclear emulsion at J-PARC neutrino beamline

T. Fukuda, S. Aoki, S. Cao +47

Precise neutrino--nucleus interaction measurements in the sub-multi GeV region are important to reduce the systematic uncertainty in future neutrino oscillation experiments. Furthe…

physics.ins-det2017★ 38 cited

The active muon shield in the SHiP experiment

SHiP collaboration, A. Akmete, A. Alexandrov +229

The SHiP experiment is designed to search for very weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model which are produced in a 400 GeV/c proton beam dump at the CERN SPS. An ess…

hep-ex2015★ 163 cited

Discovery of tau neutrino appearance in the CNGS neutrino beam with the OPERA experiment

OPERA Collaboration, N. Agafonova, A. Aleksandrov +139

The OPERA experiment was designed to search for oscillations in appearance mode, i.e. by detecting the -leptons produced in charged current interacti…

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…

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…

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…