Journal of High Energy Physics (Jan 2020)
DsTau: study of tau neutrino production with 400 GeV protons from the CERN-SPS
- The DsTau collaboration,
- Shigeki Aoki,
- Akitaka Ariga,
- Tomoko Ariga,
- Sergey Dmitrievsky,
- Elena Firu,
- Dean Forshaw,
- Tsutomu Fukuda,
- Yuri Gornushkin,
- Ali Murat Guler,
- Maria Haiduc,
- Koichi Kodama,
- Masahiro Komatsu,
- Muhtesem Akif Korkmaz,
- Umut Kose,
- Madalina Miloi,
- Antonio Miucci,
- Motoaki Miyanishi,
- Mitsuhiro Nakamura,
- Toshiyuki Nakano,
- Alina Neagu,
- Hiroki Rokujo,
- Osamu Sato,
- Elizaveta Sitnikova,
- Yosuke Suzuki,
- Tomoki Takao,
- Svetlana Vasina,
- Mykhailo Vladymyrov,
- Thomas Weston,
- Junya Yoshida,
- Masahiro Yoshimoto
Affiliations
- The DsTau collaboration
- Shigeki Aoki
- Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University
- Akitaka Ariga
- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern
- Tomoko Ariga
- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern
- Sergey Dmitrievsky
- Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
- Elena Firu
- Laboratory of High Energy Astrophysics and Advanced Technology, Institute of Space Science a subsidiary of INFLPR
- Dean Forshaw
- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern
- Tsutomu Fukuda
- Department of Physics, Nagoya University
- Yuri Gornushkin
- Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
- Ali Murat Guler
- Physics Department, Middle East Technical University
- Maria Haiduc
- Laboratory of High Energy Astrophysics and Advanced Technology, Institute of Space Science a subsidiary of INFLPR
- Koichi Kodama
- Department of Science Education, Aichi University of Education
- Masahiro Komatsu
- Department of Physics, Nagoya University
- Muhtesem Akif Korkmaz
- Physics Department, Middle East Technical University
- Umut Kose
- CERN
- Madalina Miloi
- Laboratory of High Energy Astrophysics and Advanced Technology, Institute of Space Science a subsidiary of INFLPR
- Antonio Miucci
- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern
- Motoaki Miyanishi
- Department of Physics, Nagoya University
- Mitsuhiro Nakamura
- Department of Physics, Nagoya University
- Toshiyuki Nakano
- Department of Physics, Nagoya University
- Alina Neagu
- Laboratory of High Energy Astrophysics and Advanced Technology, Institute of Space Science a subsidiary of INFLPR
- Hiroki Rokujo
- Department of Physics, Nagoya University
- Osamu Sato
- Department of Physics, Nagoya University
- Elizaveta Sitnikova
- Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
- Yosuke Suzuki
- Department of Physics, Nagoya University
- Tomoki Takao
- Department of Physics, Nagoya University
- Svetlana Vasina
- Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
- Mykhailo Vladymyrov
- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern
- Thomas Weston
- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern
- Junya Yoshida
- Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
- Masahiro Yoshimoto
- Physics Department, Gifu University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2020)033
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 2020,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 26
Abstract
Abstract In the DsTau experiment at the CERN SPS (NA65), an independent and direct way to measure tau neutrino production following high energy proton interactions was proposed. As the main source of tau neutrinos is a decay of D s mesons, produced in proton-nucleus interactions, the project aims at measuring a differential cross section of this reaction. The experimental method is based on a use of high resolution emulsion detectors for effective registration of events with short lived particle decays. Here we present the motivation of the study, details of the experimental technique, and the first results of the analysis of the data collected during test runs, which prove feasibility of the full scale study of the process in future.
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