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E. Iarocci

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

Publishes on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena. 159 papers and 5.4k citations.

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Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino-induced upgoing muon flux using MACRO
M. Ambrosio, R. Antolini, C. Aramo et al.|Physics Letters B|1998
Cited by 364Open Access

We present a measurement of the flux of neutrino-induced upgoing muons (<Eν>∼ 100 GeV) using the MACRO detector. The ratio of the number of observed to expected events integrated over all zenith angles is 0.74 ±0.036 (stat) ±0.046 (systematic) ±0.13 (theoretical). The observed zenith distribution for −1.0≤cosθ≤−0.1 does not fit well with the no oscillation expectation, giving a maximum probability for χ2 of 0.1%. The acceptance of the detector has been extensively studied using downgoing muons, independent analyses and Monte Carlo simulations. The other systematic uncertainties cannot be the source of the discrepancies between the data and expectations. We have investigated whether the observed number of events and the shape of the zenith distribution can be explained by a neutrino oscillation hypothesis. Fitting either the flux or zenith distribution independently yields mixing parameters of sin22θ=1.0 and Δm2 of a few times 10−3 eV2. However, the observed zenith distribution does not fit well with any expectations, giving a maximum probability for χ2 of 5% for the best oscillation hypothesis, and the combined probability for the shape and number of events is 17%. We conclude that these data favor a neutrino oscillation hypothesis, but with unexplained structure in the zenith distribution not easily explained by either the statistics or systematics of the experiment.

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C. Bacci, R. Balbini Celio, M. Berna-Rodini et al.|Physical Review Letters|1974
Cited by 318

We report on the results at ADONE to study the properties of the newly found 3.1-BeV particle.Received 18 November 1974DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.33.1408©1974 American Physical Society

Experimental Study of Atmospheric Neutrino Flux in the NUSEX Experiment
M. Aglietta, G. Battistoni, E. Bellotti et al.|Europhysics Letters (EPL)|1989
Cited by 246

Aglietta, M; Battistoni, G; Bellotti, E; Bloise, C; Bologna, G; Broggini, C; Campana, P; Castagnoli, C; Castellina, A; Chiarella, V; Cremonesi, O; Cundy, Donald C; D'Ettorre-Piazzoli, B; Fiorini, Ettore; Fulgione, W; Galeotti, P; Iarocci, Enzo; Liguori, C; Mannocchi, G; Murtas, G P; Negri, P; Nicoletti, G; Picchi, P; Price, M; Pullia, Antonio; Ragazzi, S; Saavedra, O; Satta, L; Vernetto, S; Zanotti, L

Matter effects in upward-going muons and sterile neutrino oscillations
M. Ambrosio, R. Antolini, G. Auriemma et al.|Physics Letters B|2001
Cited by 193Open Access

The angular distribution of upward-going muons produced by atmospheric neutrinos in the rock below the MACRO detector shows anomalies in good agreement with two flavor νμ→ντ oscillations with maximum mixing and Δm2 around 0.0024 eV2. Exploiting the dependence of magnitude of the matter effect on oscillation channel, and using a set of 809 upward-going muons observed in MACRO, we show that the two flavor νμ→νs oscillation is disfavored with 99% C.L. with respect to νμ→ντ.