Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam

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• 作者：The OPERA collaboration
  T. Adam (1)
  N. Agafonova (2)
  A. Aleksandrov (3)
  O. Altinok (4)
  P. Alvarez Sanchez (5)
  A. Anokhina (6)
  S. Aoki (7)
  A. Ariga (8)
  T. Ariga (8)
  D. Autiero (9)
  A. Badertscher (10)
  A. Ben Dhahbi (8)
  A. Bertolin (11)
  C. Bozza (12)
  T. Brugière (9)
  R. Brugnera (1113)
  F. Brunet (14)
  G. Brunetti (91543)
  S. Buontempo (3)
  B. Carlus (9)
  F. Cavanna (17)
  A. Cazes (9)
  L. Chaussard (9)
  M. Chernyavsky (18)
  V. Chiarella (19)
  A. Chukanov (20)
  G. Colosimo (21)
  M. Crespi (21)
  N. D’Ambrosio (22)
  G. De Lellis (323)
  M. De Serio (24)
  Y. Déclais (9)
  P. del Amo Sanchez (14)
  F. Di Capua (3)
  A. Di Crescenzo (323)
  D. Di Ferdinando (16)
  N. Di Marco (22)
  S. Dmitrievsky (20)
  M. Dracos (1)
  D. Duchesneau (14)
  S. Dusini (11)
  T. Dzhatdoev (6)
  J. Ebert (25)
  I. Efthymiopoulos (5)
  O. Egorov (26)
  A. Ereditato (8)
  L. S. Esposito (10)
  J. Favier (14)
  T. Ferber (25)
  R. A. Fini (24)
  T. Fukuda (27)
  A. Garfagnini (1113)
  G. Giacomelli (1516)
  M. Giorgini (151644)
  M. Giovannozzi (5)
  C. Girerd (9)
  J. Goldberg (28)
  C. G?llnitz (25)
  D. Golubkov (26)
  L. Goncharova (18)
  Y. Gornushkin (20)
  G. Grella (12)
  F. Grianti (1929)
  E. Gschwendtner (5)
  C. Guerin (9)
  A. M. Guler (4)
  C. Gustavino (30)
  C. Hagner (25)
  K. Hamada (31)
  T. Hara (7)
  R. Enikeev (2)
  M. Hierholzer (2543)
  A. Hollnagel (25)
  M. Ieva (24)
  H. Ishida (27)
  K. Ishiguro (31)
  K. Jakovcic (32)
  C. Jollet (1)
  M. Jones (5)
  F. Juget (8)
  M. Kamiscioglu (4)
  J. Kawada (8)
  S. H. Kim (3345)
  M. Kimura (27)
  E. Kiritsis (34)
  N. Kitagawa (31)
  B. Klicek (32)
  J. Knuesel (8)
  K. Kodama (35)
  M. Komatsu (31)
  U. Kose (11)
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  C. Lazzaro (10)
  J. Lenkeit (25)
  A. Ljubicic (32)
  A. Longhin (19)
  A. Malgin (2)
  G. Mandrioli (16)
  J. Marteau (9)
  T. Matsuo (27)
  V. Matveev (2)
  N. Mauri (19)
  A. Mazzoni (21)
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  K. Morishima (31)
  U. Moser (8)
  M. T. Muciaccia (2436)
  N. Naganawa (31)
  T. Naka (31)
  M. Nakamura (31)
  T. Nakano (31)
  Y. Nakatsuka (31)
  D. Naumov (20)
  V. Nikitina (6)
  F. Nitti (37)
  S. Ogawa (27)
  N. Okateva (18)
  A. Olchevsky (20)
  O. Palamara (22)
  A. Paoloni (19)
  B. D. Park (3346)
  I. G. Park (33)
  A. Pastore (2436)
  L. Patrizii (16) laura.patrizii@bo.infn.it
  E. Pennacchio (9)
  H. Pessard (14)
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  L. Scotto Lavina (848)
  J. Serrano (5)
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  H. Shibuya (27)
  G. Shoziyoev (6)
  S. Simone (2436)
  M. Sioli (1516)
  C. Sirignano (1113)
  G. Sirri (16)
  J. S. Song (33)
  M. Spinetti (19)
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  M. Stipcevic (32)
  T. Strauss (8)
  S. Takahashi (7)
  M. Tenti (91516)
  F. Terranova (1941)
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  P. Tolun (4)
  N. T. Trani (9)
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  P. Vilain (42)
  M. Vladimirov (18)
  L. Votano (19)
  J.-L. Vuilleumier (8)
  G. Wilquet (42)
  B. Wonsak (25)
  J. Wurtz (1)
  V. Yakushev (2)
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• 关键词：Keywords Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes
• 刊名：Journal of High Energy Physics
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：October 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：2012
• 期：10
• 全文大小：1.8 MB
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• 作者单位：1. IPHC, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS/IN2P3, F-67037 Strasbourg, France2. INR-Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RUS-117312 Moscow, Russia3. INFN Sezione di Napoli, I-80125 Napoli, Italy4. METU-Middle East Technical University, TR-06532 Ankara, Turkey5. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland6. (MSU SINP) Lomonosov Moscow State University Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, RUS-119992 Moscow, Russia7. Kobe University, J-657-8501 Kobe, Japan8. Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland9. IPNL, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France10. ETH Zurich, Institute for Particle Physics, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland11. INFN Sezione di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy12. Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Salerno and INFN “Gruppo Collegato di Salerno- I-84084 Fisciano, Salerno, Italy13. Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Padova, 35131 I Padova, Italy14. LAPP, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux, France15. Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Bologna, I-40127 Bologna, Italy16. INFN Sezione di Bologna, I-40127 Bologna, Italy17. Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università dell’Aquila and INFN “Gruppo Collegato de L’Aquila- I-67100 L’Aquila, Italy18. LPI-Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, RUS-119991 Moscow, Russia19. INFN -Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, I-00044 Frascati (Roma), Italy20. JINR-Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, RUS-141980 Dubna, Russia21. Area di Geodesia e Geomatica, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile Edile e Ambientale dell’Università di Roma Sapienza, I-00185 Roma, Italy22. INFN -Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy23. Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche dell’Università Federico II di Napoli, I-80125 Napoli, Italy24. INFN Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy25. Hamburg University, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany26. ITEP-Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, RUS-117259 Moscow, Russia27. Toho University, J-274-8510 Funabashi, Japan28. Department of Physics, Technion, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel29. Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo- I-61029 Urbino, Italy30. INFN Sezione di Roma, I-00185 Roma, Italy31. Nagoya University, J-464-8602 Nagoya, Japan32. IRB-Rudjer Boskovic Institute, HR-10002 Zagreb, Croatia33. Gyeongsang National University, ROK-900 Gazwa-dong, Jinju, 660-701 Korea34. Crete Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, GR-71003 Heraklion, Greece35. Aichi University of Education, J-448-8542 Kariya (Aichi-Ken), Japan36. Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy37. Theory Division APC, Université Paris 7, Batiment Condorcet, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France38. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sez. CNT, I-00143 Roma, Italy39. Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Roma Sapienza, I-00185 Roma, Italy40. Utsunomiya University, J-321-8505 Utsunomiya, Japan41. Dipartimento di Fisica dell-Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy42. IIHE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium43. Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland44. INAF/IASF, Sezione di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy45. Pusan National University, Geumjeong-Gu, Busan 609-735, Republic of Korea46. Asan Medical Center, 388-1 Pungnap-2 Dong, Songpa-Gu, Seoul 138-736, Republic of Korea47. Centre de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Géophysique, Alger, Algeria48. SUBATECH, CNRS/IN2P3, F-44307 Nantes, France
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文摘

The OPERA neutrino experiment at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory has measured the velocity of neutrinos from the CERN CNGS beam over a baseline of about 730 km. The measurement is based on data taken by OPERA in the years 2009, 2010 and 2011. Dedicated upgrades of the CNGS timing system and of the OPERA detector, as well as a high precision geodesy campaign for the measurement of the neutrino baseline, allowed reaching comparable systematic and statistical accuracies.