DsTau: study of tau neutrino production with 400 GeV protons from the CERN-SPS

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Aoki S., Ariga A., Ariga T., Dmitrievsky S., Firu E., Forshaw D., ...More

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, vol.2020, no.1, 2020 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 2020 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2020
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/jhep01(2020)033
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, INSPEC, zbMATH, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Keywords: Fixed target experiments, Charm physics, HIGH-ENERGY, DETECTOR, SEARCH, WIDTH, MASS
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

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.