Observation of a first ντ candidate event in the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 691, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 138-145

  Agafonova, N ^a   Aleksandrov, A ^b   Altinok, O ^c   Ambrosio, M ^d   Anokhina, A ^e   Aoki, S ^f   Ariga, A ^g   Ariga, T ^g   Autiero, D ^h   Badertscher, A ⁱ   Bagulya, A ^b   Bendhabi, A ^j   Bertolin, A ^k   Besnier, M ^l   Bick, D ^m   Boyarkin, V ^a   Bozza, C ⁿ   Brugiere T ^h   Brugnera, R ^k,o   Brunet, F ^k   Brunetti, G ^h,p   Buontempo, S ^d   Cazes, A ^h   Chaussard, L ^h   Chernyavsky, M ^b   Chiarella, V ^q   Chon Sen, N ^r   Chukanov, A ^s   Ciesielski, R ^k   Dal Corso, F ^d,k   D'Ambrosio, N ^t   Declais, Y ^h   del Amo Sanchez, P ^l   De Lellis, G ^d,u   De Serio, M ^v   Di Capua, F ^d   Di Crescenzo, A ^d,u   Di Ferdinando, D ^w   Di Marco, N ^x   Di Giovanni, A ^t   Dmitrievsky, S ^s   Dracos, M ^r   Duchesneau, D ^l   Dusini, S ^k   Dzhatdoev, T ^e   Ebert, J ^m   Egorov, O ^y   Enikeev, R ^a   Ereditato, A ^g   Esposito, L S ⁱ   Favier, J ^l   Ferber, T ^m   Fini, R A ^v   Frekers, D ^z   Fukuda, T ^aa   Galkin, V ^e   Garfagnini, A ^k,o   Giacomelli, G ^p,w   Giorgini, M ^p,w   Goldberg, J ^ab   Gollnitz C ^m   Golubkov, D ^y   Goncharova, L ^b   Gornushkin, Y ^s   Grella, G ⁿ   Grianti, F ^q,ac   Guler, A M ^c   Gustavino, C ^t   Hagner, C ^m   Hamada, K ^aa   Hara, T ^f   Hierholzer, M ^m   Hoshino, K ^aa   Ieva, M ^v   Ishida, H ^ad   Ishiguro, K ^aa   Jakovcic, K ^af   Jollet, C ^r   Juget, F ^g   Kamiscioglu, M ^c   Kawada, J ^g   Kazuyama, M ^q   Kim, S H ^ae   Kimura, M ^ad   Kitagawa, N ^aa   Klicek, B ^af   Knuesel, J ^g   Kodama, K ^ag   Komatsu, M ^aa   Kose, U ^k,o   Kreslo, I ^g   Kubota, H ^aa   Lazzaro, C ⁱ   Lenkeit, J ^m   Lippi, I ^k   Ljubicic, A ^af   Longhin, A ^k,o   Lutter, G ^g   Malgin, A ^a   Mandrioli, G ^w   Mannai, K ^j   Marotta, A ^d   Marteau, J ^h   Matsuo, T ^ad   Matveev, V ^a   Mauri, N ^p,w   Medinaceli, E ^w   Meisel, F ^g   Meregaglia, A ^r   Migliozzi, P ^d   Mikado, S ^ad   Miyamoto, S ^aa   Monacelli, P ^x   Morishima, K ^aa   Moser, U ^g   Muciaccia, M T ^v,ah   Naganawa, N ^aa   Naka, T ^aa   Nakamura, M ^aa   Nakano, T ^aa   Nakatsuka, Y ^aa   Naumov, D ^s   Nikitina, V ^e   Niwa, K ^aa   Nonoyama, Y ^aa   Ogawa, S ^ad   Olchevsky, A ^s   Omura, T ^aa   Orlova, G ^b   Osedlo, V ^e   Paniccia, M ^q   Paoloni, A ^q   Park, B D ^ae   Park, I G ^u   Pastore, A ^d,af   Patrizii, L ^w   Pennacchio, E ^h   Pessard, H ^b   Pilipenko, V ^z   Pistillo, C ^g   Polukhina, N ^b   Pozzato, M ^f   Pretzl, K ^g   Publichenko, P ^e   Pupilli, F ^x   Repellin, J P ^am   Rescigno, R ⁿ   Roganova, T ^e   Rokujo, H ^f   Romano, G ^d   Rosa, G ^ai   Rostovtseva, I ^y   Rubbia, A ⁱ   Russo, A ^d,u   Ryasny, V ^a   Ryazhskaya, O ^a   Sakatani, Y ^aa   Sato, O ^aa   Sato, Y ^aj   Schembri, A ^t   Schmidt Parzefall, W ^m   Schroeder, H ^ak   Scotto Lavina, L ^d   Sheshukov, A ^s   Shibuya, H ^ad   Simone, S ^v,ah   Sioli, M ^p,w   Sirignano, C ⁿ   Sirri, G ^w   Song, J S ^ae   Spinetti, M ^q   Stanco, L ^k   Starkov, N ^b   Stipcevic, M ^af   Strauss, T ⁱ   Strolin, P ^d,u   Suzuki, K ^aa   Takahashi, S ^aa   Tenti, M ^p,w   Terranova, F ^q   Tezuka, I ^aj   Tioukov, V ^d   Tolun, P ^c   Trabelsi, A ^j   Tran, T ^h   Tufanli, S ^c   Vilain, P ^h   Vladimirov, M ^b   Votano, L ^g   Vuilleumier, J L ^g   Wilquet, G ^al   Wonsak, B ^m   Yakushev, V ^a   Yoon, C S ^ae   Yoshida, J ^aa   Yoshioka, T ^aa   Zaitsev, Y ^y   Zemskova, S ^s   Zghiche, A ^l   Zimmermann, R ^m   more..

^a INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

ⁱ ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^j Unite de Physique Nucleaire et des Hautes Energies UPNHE   (Tunisia)

^k SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^m UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^o UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^p UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^q INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^r UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^s JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^t LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^u UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^v INFN SEZIONE DI BARI   (Italy)

^w INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^x UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

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

^z UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^aa NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ab TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^ad TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ae Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

^af RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^ag AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^ai UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^aj UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^al UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^am NONE   (France)

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Author keywords

Appearance; CNGS; Neutrino; OPERA; Oscillations; Tau

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954623742     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.06.022     Document Type: Article

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