The OPERA experiment in the CERN to Gran Sasso neutrino beam

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Acquafredda, R ^a   Adam, T ^b   Agafonova, N ^c   Alvarez Sanchez, P ^d   Ambrosio, M ^a   Anokhina, A ^e   Aoki, S ^f   Ariga, A ^g   Ariga, T ^h   Arrabito, L ⁱ   Aufranc, C ⁱ   Autiero, D ⁱ   Badertscher, A ^j   Bagulya, A ^k   Baussan, E ^b   Bergnoli, A ^l   Bersani Greggio, F ^m   Bertolin, A ^l   Besnier, M ^n,ap   Biare D ⁿ   Bick, D ^o   Blin, S ^p   Borer, K ^g   Boucrot, J ^p   Boutigny, D ^n,aq   Boyarkin, V ^c   Bozza, C ^q   Brugiere T ⁱ   Brugnera, R ^r   Brunetti, G ^u   Buontempo, S ^a   Campagne, J E ^p   Carlus, B ⁱ   Carrara, E ^r   Cazes, A ^u   Chaussard, L ⁱ   Chernyavsky, M ^k   Chiarella, V ^u   Chon Sen, N ^b   Chukanov, A ^a   Ciesielski, R ^l   Consiglio, L ^s,t   Cozzi, M ^s   D'Amato, G ^q   Dal Corso, F ^l   D'Ambrosio, N ^v   Damet, J ^n,ar   De La Taille, C ^p   De Lellis, G ^a,w   Declais Y ⁱ   Descombes, T ^i,as   De Serio, M ^x   Di Capua, F ^a   Di Ferdinando, D ^t   Di Giovanni, A ^y   Di Marco, N ^y   Di Troia, C ^u   Dick, N ^b   Dmitrievski, S ^z   Dominjon, A ⁱ   Dracos, M ^b   Duchesneau, D ⁿ   Dulach, B ^u   Dusini, S ^l   Ebert, J ^o   Efthymiopoulos, I ^d   Egorov, O ^aa   Elsener, K ^d   Enikeev, R ^c   Ereditato, A ^g   Esposito, S ^v   Fanin, C ^l   Favier, J ⁿ   Felici, G ^u   Ferber, T ^o   Fini, R ^x   Fournier, L ⁿ   Franceschi, A ^u   Frekers, D ^ab   Fukuda, T ^h   Fukushima, C ^ac   Galkin, V I ^e   Galkin, V A ^ad   Gallet, R ⁿ   Gardien, S ⁱ   Garfagnini, A ^r   Gaudiot, G ^b   Giacomelli, G ^s,t   Giorgini, M ^s,t   Girerd, C ⁱ   Goellnitz, C ^o   Goeltzenlichter, T ^b   Goldberg, J ^ae   Golubkov, D ^aa   Gornushkin, Y ^z   Grapton, J N ^b   Grella, G ^q   Grianti, F ^m   Gschwendtner, E ^d   Guerin, C ⁱ   Guler, M ^af   Gustavino, C ^v   Guyonnet, J L ^b   Hagner, C ^o   Hamane, T ^n,at   Hara, T ^f   Hauger, M ^g   Hess, M ^g   Hierholzer, M ^ag   Hoshino, K ^h   Ieva, M ^x   Incurvati, M ^u   Jakovcic, K ^ah   Janicsko Csathy, J ^g   Janutta, B ^o   Jollet, C ^b   Juget, F ^g   Kazuyama, M ^h   Kim, S H ^ai,au   Khovansky, N ^z   Kimura, M ^ac   Klicek, B ^ah   Knuesel, J ^g   Kodama, K ^aj   Kolev, D ^ak   Komatsu, M ^h   Kose, U ^af,av   Krasnoperov, A ^z   Kreslo, I ^g   Krumstein, Z ^z   Kutsenov, V V ^c   Kuznetsov, V A ^c   Laktineh, I ⁱ   Lavy, M ^n,aw   Lazzaro, C ^j   Le, T D ^b   Le Flour, T ⁿ   Lenkeit, J ^o   Lewis, J ^d   Lieunard, S ⁿ   Ljubicic, A ^ah   Longhin, A ^r   Lutter, G ^g   Malgin, A ^c   Manai, K ⁱ   Mandrioli, G ^t   Marotta, A ^a   Marteau, J ⁱ   Martin Chassard, G ^p   Matveev, V ^c   Mauri, N ^s,t   Meddahi, M ^d   Meisel, F ^g   Meregaglia, A ^b   Meschini, A ^v   Messina, M ^g   Migliozzi, P ^a   Monacelli, P ^y   Monteiro, I ⁿ   Moreau, F ^n,ax   Morishima, K ^h   Moser, U ^g   Muciaccia, M T ^al   Mugnier, P ⁿ   Naganawa, N ^h   Nakamura, M ^h   Nakano, T ^h   Napolitano, T ^u   Nikitina, V ^e   Niwa, K ^h   Nonoyama, Y ^h   Nozdrin, A ^z   Ogawa, S ^ac   Olchevski, A ^z   Orlandi, D ^v   Orlova, G ^k   Osedlo, V ^e   Ossetski, D ^ad   Paniccia, M ^u   Paoloni, A ^u   Park, B D ^h   Park, I G ^ai   Pastore, A ^al   Patrizii, L ^t   Pellegrino, L ^u   Pennacchio, E ⁱ   Pessard, H ⁿ   Pilipenko, V ^ab   Pistillo, C ^g   Polukhina, N ^k   Pozzato, M ^s,t   Pretzl, K ^g   Publichenko, P ^e   Pupilli, F ^y   Raux, L ^p   Repellin, P ^p   Rescigno, R ^q   Rizhikov, D ^ad   Roganova, T ^e   Romano, G ^q   Rosa, G ^am   Rostovtseva, I ^aa   Rubbia, A ^j   Russo, A ^a,w   Ryasny, V ^c   Ryazhskaya, O ^c   Sadovski, A ^z   Sanelli, C ^u   Sato, O ^h   Sato, Y ^an   Saveliev, V ^ad   Sazhina, G ^e   Schembri, A ^am   Schmidt Parzefall, W ^o   Schroeder, H ^ag   Schutz H U ^g   Schuler, J ^b   Scotto Lavina, L ^a   Serrano, J ^d   Shibuya, H ^ac   Simone, S ^x,al   Sioli, M ^s,t   Sirignano, C ^q   Sirri, G ^t   Song, J S ^ai   Spinetti, M ^u   Stanco, L ^r   Starkov, N ^k   Stipcevic, M ^ah   Strauss, T ^j   Strolin, P ^a,w   Sugonyaev, V ^r,ay   Takahashi, S ^h   Talochkin, V ^c   Tenti, M ^s,t   Tereschenko, V ^z   Terranova, F ^u   Tezuka, I ^an   Tioukov, V ^a   Tolun, P ^af   Tsarev, V ^k   Tsenov, R ^ak   Tufanli, S ^af   Ugolino, U ^a   Ushida, N ^aj   Van Beek, G ^ao   Verguilov, V ^ak   Viant, T ^j   Vilain, P ^ao   Vladimirov, M ^k   Votano, L ^u   Vuilleumier, J L ^g   Waelchli, T ^g   Weber, M ^g   Wilquet, G ^ao   Wonsak, B ^o   Wurtz, J ^b   Yakushev, V ^c   Yoon, C S ^ai   Zaitsev, Y ^aa   Zghiche, A ⁿ   Zimmermann, R ^o   more..

^a INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^h NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^j ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^k LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^l SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^m UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

ⁿ UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^o UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^p UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^q UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^r UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^s UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^t INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^u INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^v LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^w UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^x INFN SEZIONE DI BARI   (Italy)

^y UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^z JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^aa INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^ac TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ad Obninsk State Technical University for Nuclear Power Engineering   (Russian Federation)

^ae TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^af MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^ah RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^ai Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

^aj AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^al UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^am UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^an UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ao UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^ap LABORATOIRE LEPRINCE RINGUET   (France)

^aq CENTRE DE CALCUL DE L INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^ar UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^as STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^at Lyonnaise des Eaux de Casablanca   (Morocco)

^au Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^av SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TURKEY   (Turkey)

^aw NONE   (France)

^ax CNRS   (France)

^ay INSTITUTE FOR HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

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Author keywords

Hybrid detectors; Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Particle tracking detectors; Spectrometers

Indexed keywords

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HYBRID DETECTORS; MAGNETIC SPECTROMETERS; NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS; NUCLEAR EMULSION FILMS; PARTICLE TRACKING; TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE;

BRICK; DETECTORS; EMULSIFICATION; EXPERIMENTS; NEUTRONS; PHOTOGRAPHIC EMULSIONS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SPECTROMETERS;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 71049193140     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/4/04/P04018     Document Type: Article

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