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Study of the Run-3 muon flux at the SND@LHC experiment
LHC Collaboration
Long-range muons produced in proton-proton collisions at the ATLAS interaction point constitute the primary background for neutrino interaction searches at the SND@LHC experiment.…
Measurement of the Muon Flux at SND@LHC: Results from the 2023-2025 Proton and Heavy-Ion Periods
LHC Collaboration
The SND@LHC experiment investigates neutrinos in the forward pseudorapidity range. The detector consists of a veto system, a scintillating fiber tracker interleaved…
SND@LHC Upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC: Physics Reach and Installation Scenarios
LHC Collaboration
The SND@LHC experiment is currently taking data at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), exploring the unique forward region at pseudorapidities from 7.2 to 8.4. Its physics programme c…
The SND@LHC neutron shielding
LHC Collaboration
The design and construction of a neutron shielding for the SND@LHC detector, which utilizes a combination of plexiglass and borated polyethylene, is presented. FLUKA simulations we…
Studies of Hadronic Showers in SND@LHC
LHC Collaboration
The SND@LHC experiment was built for observing neutrinos arising from LHC pp collisions. The detector consists of two sections: a target instrumented with SciFi modules and a hadro…
Input from the SND@LHC collaboration to the 2026 Update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics
LHC collaboration
By observing collider neutrino interactions of different flavours, the SND@LHC and Faser experiments have shown that the LHC can make interesting contributions to neutrino physics.…
Observation of collider neutrinos without final state muons with the SND@LHC experiment
LHC Collaboration
We report the observation of neutrino interactions without final state muons at the LHC, with a significance of 6.4. A data set of proton-proton collisions at …
Measurement of the muon flux at the SND@LHC experiment
LHC Collaboration
The Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC (\SND) started taking data at the beginning of Run 3 of the LHC. The experiment is designed to perform measurements with neutrinos p…
Observation of collider muon neutrinos with the SND@LHC experiment
LHC Collaboration
We report the direct observation of muon neutrino interactions with the SND@LHC detector at the Large Hadron Collider. A data set of proton-proton collisions at …
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…
SND@LHC: The Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC
LHC Collaboration
SND@LHC is a compact and stand-alone experiment designed to perform measurements with neutrinos produced at the LHC in the pseudo-rapidity region of . The experimen…
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…
Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to dark photons decaying to a pair of charged particles
SHiP Collaboration, C. Ahdida, A. Akmete +331
Dark photons are hypothetical massive vector particles that could mix with ordinary photons. The simplest theoretical model is fully characterised by only two parameters: the mass…
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…
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…
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…
Discovery potential for directional Dark Matter detection with nuclear emulsions
N. Agafonova, A. Aleksandrov, A. Anokhina +53
Direct Dark Matter searches are nowadays one of the most fervid research topics with many experimental efforts devoted to the search for nuclear recoils induced by the scattering o…