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M. Vakili
Researcher at Texas A&M University
Publications - 44
Citations - 2488
M. Vakili is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Neutrino & Neutrino oscillation. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 32 publications receiving 2397 citations.
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Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors in the NuMI neutrino beam
D. G. Michael,P. Adamson,P. Adamson,P. Adamson,T. Alexopoulos,W.W.M. Allison,G. J. Alner,Kevin Anderson,C. Andreopoulos,M. P. Andrews,R. Andrews,K. E. Arms,R. Armstrong,C. Arroyo,D. J. Auty,S. Avvakumov,D. S. Ayres,B. Baller,B. C. Barish,M. A. Barker,Peter D. Barnes,G.D. Barr,William L. Barrett,E. Beall,E. Beall,B. R. Becker,A. Belias,T. Bergfeld,R. H. Bernstein,D. Bhattacharya,M. Bishai,Andrew Blake,V. Bocean,B. Bock,G. J. Bock,J. Boehm,D. J. Boehnlein,D. Bogert,P. M. Border,C. R. Bower,S. Boyd,E. Buckley-Geer,C. Bungau,A. Byon-Wagner,Anatael Cabrera,John Derek Chapman,Thomas R. Chase,D. Cherdack,S. Chernichenko,S. Childress,B. C. Choudhary,B. C. Choudhary,J. H. Cobb,J. D. Cossairt,H. Courant,D. Crane,A. J. Culling,J. W. Dawson,J. K. de Jong,D. M. DeMuth,A. De Santo,M. Dierckxsens,M. V. Diwan,M. Dorman,M. Dorman,G. Drake,D. Drakoulakos,R. Ducar,T. Durkin,A. R. Erwin,Carlos Escobar,J. J. Evans,O. Fackler,E. Falk Harris,G. J. Feldman,N. Felt,T. H. Fields,R. Ford,M. V. Frohne,H. R. Gallagher,M. Gebhard,G. A. Giurgiu,A. Godley,J. Gogos,M. C. Goodman,Yu. A. Gornushkin,P. Gouffon,R. Gran,E. Grashorn,N. Grossman,J. J. Grudzinski,K. Grzelak,V. J. Guarino,Alec Habig,R. Halsall,J. Hanson,D. A. Harris,Philip Harris,J. Hartnell,J. Hartnell,E. P. Hartouni,R. Hatcher,Ken Heller,N. Hill,Y. Ho,A. Holin,C. Howcroft,C. Howcroft,J. Hylen,M. Ignatenko,D. Indurthy,G. M. Irwin,M. Ishitsuka,D. E. Jaffe,C. James,L. Jenner,D. A. Jensen,T. Joffe-Minor,T. Kafka,H. J. Kang,S. M S Kasahara,J. Kilmer,Hyun-Chul Kim,M. S. Kim,G. Koizumi,Sacha E Kopp,M. Kordosky,M. Kordosky,D. J. Koskinen,D. J. Koskinen,M. Kostin,S. K. Kotelnikov,D. Krakauer,A. E. Kreymer,S. Kumaratunga,A. S. Ladran,Karol Lang,C. Laughton,A. Lebedev,R. Lee,Weonjong Lee,M. Libkind,Ji-Yong Liu,P. J. Litchfield,P. J. Litchfield,R. P. Litchfield,N. P. Longley,P. Lucas,W. Luebke,S. Madani,E. Maher,V. Makeev,W. A. Mann,A. Marchionni,A. D. Marino,Marvin L Marshak,John Marshall,N. Mayer,J. McDonald,A. M. McGowan,A. M. McGowan,J. R. Meier,G. I. Merzon,M. D. Messier,M. D. Messier,R. H. Milburn,John Miller,John Miller,Warner A. Miller,S.R. Mishra,S.R. Mishra,A. Mislivec,P. S. Miyagawa,C. D. Moore,Jorge G. Morfin,R. Morse,L. Mualem,S. L. Mufson,S. Murgia,M. J. Murtagh,J. A. Musser,D. Naples,C. Nelson,J. K. Nelson,J. K. Nelson,J. K. Nelson,Harvey B Newman,F. A. Nezrick,R. J. Nichol,T. C. Nicholls,Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux,J. Oliver,W. P. Oliver,V.A. Onuchin,T. Osiecki,R. Ospanov,J. M. Paley,V. Paolone,A. Para,T. Patzak,Ž Pavlović,G. F. Pearce,N. Pearson,C. W. Peck,Carole C. Perry,E. A. Peterson,D. A. Petyt,D. A. Petyt,D. A. Petyt,H. Ping,R. Piteira,R. Pittam,A. Pla-Dalmau,R. K. Plunkett,L. E. Price,M. Proga,D. Pushka,D. Rahman,R. A. Rameika,T. M. Raufer,A. L. Read,B. Rebel,B. Rebel,J. Reichenbacher,D. E. Reyna,C. Rosenfeld,H. A. Rubin,K. Ruddick,V. A. Ryabov,Ruben Saakyan,Mcd Sanchez,Mcd Sanchez,Niki Saoulidou,J. Schneps,Paul Schoessow,P. Schreiner,Reinhard Schwienhorst,V. K. Semenov,S. M. Seun,P. Shanahan,P.D. Shield,W. Smart,V. Smirnitsky,Caleb Smith,Caleb Smith,Caleb Smith,P. N. Smith,A. Sousa,A. Sousa,B. Speakman,P. Stamoulis,A. Stefanik,P. Sullivan,J. M. Swan,P. A. Symes,N. Tagg,N. Tagg,R. L. Talaga,Alexander Terekhov,E. Tetteh-Lartey,Juergen Thomas,Juergen Thomas,Juergen Thomas,J. A. Thompson,M. A. Thomson,J. L. Thron,G. Tinti,R. Trendler,J. Trevor,I. Trostin,V. A. Tsarev,G. Tzanakos,J. Urheim,J. Urheim,P. Vahle,P. Vahle,M. Vakili,K. Vaziri,C. Velissaris,V. Verebryusov,B. Viren,L. Wai,C. P. Ward,D. R. Ward,M. Watabe,A. C. Weber,A. C. Weber,R. C. Webb,A. A. Wehmann,N. West,C. White,Randall White,Stanley G. Wojcicki,Douglas Wright,Q. K. Wu,W. G. Yan,T. Yang,Francisco Yumiceva,J. C. Yun,H. Zheng,M. Zois,R. Zwaska,R. Zwaska +302 more
TL;DR: In this article, the MINOS experiment reported results from its initial exposure to neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam, and the rate and energy spectra of charged current muon neutrino interactions are compared in two detectors located along the beam axis at distances of 1 km and 735 km.
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The magnetized steel and scintillator calorimeters of the MINOS experiment
D. G. Michael,P. Adamson,P. Adamson,P. Adamson,T. Alexopoulos,W.W.M. Allison,G. J. Alner,Kevin Anderson,C. Andreopoulos,M. P. Andrews,R. Andrews,C. Arroyo,S. Avvakumov,D. S. Ayres,B. Baller,B. C. Barish,M. A. Barker,Peter D. Barnes,G.D. Barr,William L. Barrett,E. Beall,E. Beall,Keith Bechtol,B. R. Becker,A. Belias,T. Bergfeld,R. H. Bernstein,D. Bhattacharya,M. Bishai,Andrew Blake,V. Bocean,B. Bock,G. J. Bock,J. Boehm,D. J. Boehnlein,D. Bogert,P. M. Border,C. R. Bower,S. Boyd,E. Buckley-Geer,A. Byon-Wagner,Anatael Cabrera,John Derek Chapman,Thomas R. Chase,S. Chernichenko,S. Childress,B. C. Choudhary,B. C. Choudhary,J. H. Cobb,S. J. Coleman,J. D. Cossairt,H. Courant,D. Crane,A. J. Culling,D.S. Damiani,J. W. Dawson,J. K. de Jong,D. M. DeMuth,A. De Santo,M. Dierckxsens,M. V. Diwan,M. Dorman,M. Dorman,Gary Drake,R. Ducar,T. Durkin,A. R. Erwin,Carlos Escobar,J. J. Evans,J. J. Evans,O. Fackler,E. Falk Harris,G. J. Feldman,N. Felt,T. H. Fields,R. Ford,M. V. Frohne,H. R. Gallagher,M. Gebhard,A. Godley,J. Gogos,M. C. Goodman,Yu. A. Gornushkin,P. Gouffon,E. Grashorn,N. Grossman,J. J. Grudzinski,K. Grzelak,K. Grzelak,V. J. Guarino,Alec Habig,R. Halsall,J. Hanson,D. A. Harris,Philip Harris,J. Hartnell,J. Hartnell,J. Hartnell,E. P. Hartouni,R. Hatcher,Ken Heller,N. Hill,Y. Ho,C. Howcroft,C. Howcroft,J. Hylen,M. Ignatenko,D. Indurthy,G. M. Irwin,C. James,L. Jenner,D. A. Jensen,T. Joffe-Minor,T. Kafka,H. J. Kang,S. M S Kasahara,J. Kilmer,Hyun-Chul Kim,M. S. Kim,G. Koizumi,Sacha E Kopp,M. Kordosky,M. Kordosky,M. Kordosky,D. J. Koskinen,D. J. Koskinen,M. Kostin,S. K. Kotelnikov,D. Krakauer,S. Kumaratunga,A. S. Ladran,Karol Lang,C. Laughton,A. Lebedev,Raymond Lee,Weonjong Lee,M. Libkind,Ji-Yong Liu,P. J. Litchfield,P. J. Litchfield,R. P. Litchfield,N. P. Longley,P. Lucas,W. Luebke,S. Madani,E. Maher,V. Makeev,W. A. Mann,A. Marchionni,A. D. Marino,Marvin L Marshak,John Marshall,J. McDonald,A. M. McGowan,A. M. McGowan,J. R. Meier,G. I. Merzon,M. D. Messier,M. D. Messier,R. H. Milburn,John Miller,John Miller,Warner A. Miller,S.R. Mishra,S.R. Mishra,P. S. Miyagawa,C. D. Moore,Jorge G. Morfin,R. Morse,L. Mualem,L. Mualem,S. L. Mufson,S. Murgia,M. J. Murtagh,J. A. Musser,D. Naples,C. Nelson,J. K. Nelson,J. K. Nelson,J. K. Nelson,Harvey B Newman,F. A. Nezrick,R. J. Nichol,T. C. Nicholls,Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux,John Oliver,W. P. Oliver,V.A. Onuchin,T. Osiecki,R. Ospanov,J. M. Paley,V. Paolone,A. Para,T. Patzak,Ž Pavlović,G. F. Pearce,N. Pearson,C. W. Peck,Carole C. Perry,E. A. Peterson,D. A. Petyt,D. A. Petyt,D. A. Petyt,H. Ping,R. Piteira,Anna Pla-Dalmau,R. K. Plunkett,L. E. Price,M. Proga,D. Pushka,D. Rahman,R. A. Rameika,T. M. Raufer,T. M. Raufer,A. L. Read,B. Rebel,B. Rebel,D. E. Reyna,C. Rosenfeld,H. A. Rubin,K. Ruddick,V. A. Ryabov,Ruben Saakyan,M. C. Sanchez,M. C. Sanchez,M. C. Sanchez,Niki Saoulidou,J. Schneps,Paul Schoessow,P. Schreiner,Reinhard Schwienhorst,V. K. Semenov,S. M. Seun,P. Shanahan,P.D. Shield,R. Shivane,W. Smart,V. Smirnitsky,Caleb Smith,Caleb Smith,Caleb Smith,P. N. Smith,A. Sousa,A. Sousa,B. Speakman,P. Stamoulis,A. Stefanik,P. Sullivan,J. M. Swan,P. A. Symes,N. Tagg,N. Tagg,R. L. Talaga,Alexander Terekhov,E. Tetteh-Lartey,Juergen Thomas,Juergen Thomas,Juergen Thomas,J. A. Thompson,M. A. Thomson,J. L. Thron,R. Trendler,J. Trevor,I. Trostin,V. A. Tsarev,G. Tzanakos,J. Urheim,J. Urheim,P. Vahle,P. Vahle,P. Vahle,M. Vakili,K. Vaziri,C. Velissaris,V. Verebryusov,B. Viren,L. Wai,C. P. Ward,D. R. Ward,M. Watabe,A. C. Weber,A. C. Weber,R. C. Webb,A. A. Wehmann,N. West,Christopher G. White,Randall White,Stanley G. Wojcicki,Douglas Wright,Q. K. Wu,W. G. Yan,T. Yang,Francisco Yumiceva,J. C. Yun,H. Zheng,M. Zois,R. Zwaska,R. Zwaska +297 more
TL;DR: The main injector neutrino oscillation search (MINOS) experiment as mentioned in this paper uses an accelerator-produced Neutrino beam to perform precision measurements of the neutrinos oscillation parameters.
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Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino-induced upgoing muon flux using MACRO
M. Ambrosio,R. Antolini,C. Aramo,G. Auriemma,G. Auriemma,A. Baldini,G. C. Barbarino,Barry C. Barish,G. Battistoni,Roberto Bellotti,C. Bemporad,P. Bernardini,Halina Bilokon,V. Bisi,C. Bloise,C. R. Bower,Severino Angelo Maria Bussino,F. Cafagna,M. Calicchio,D. Campana,M. Carboni,Marcello Castellano,S. Cecchini,S. Cecchini,F. Cei,F. Cei,V. Chiarella,B. C. Choudhary,S. Coutu,L. De Benedictis,G. de Cataldo,H. Dekhissi,C. De Marzo,I. De Mitri,J. Derkaoui,M. De Vincenzi,M. De Vincenzi,A. Di Credico,O. Erriquez,C. Favuzzi,C. Forti,P. Fusco,G. Giacomelli,G. Giannini,G. Giannini,N. Giglietto,M. Giorgini,M. Grassi,L. Gray,Alexander Grillo,Fausto Guarino,P. Guarnaccia,C. Gustavino,Alec Habig,Kael Hanson,A. Hawthorne,R.M. Heinz,Y. Huang,E. Iarocci,Erik Katsavounidis,Ioannis Katsavounidis,E. Kearns,Hyun-Chul Kim,S. Kyriazopoulou,E. Lamanna,C. E. Lane,Daniel M. Levin,Paolo Lipari,Np Longley,Np Longley,Michael J. Longo,F. Maaroufi,G. Mancarella,G. Mandrioli,Shahid Manzoor,Shahid Manzoor,A. Margiotta Neri,Andrea Carlo Marini,D. Martello,A. Marzari-Chiesa,M. N. Mazziotta,C. Mazzotta,D. G. Michael,S P Mikheyev,L. Miller,P. Monacelli,Teresa Montaruli,M. Monteno,S. L. Mufson,J. A. Musser,D. Nicoló,D. Nicoló,R. Nolty,C. Okada,C. Orth,Giuseppe Osteria,M. Ouchrif,O. Palamara,Vincenzo Patera,L. Patrizii,R. Pazzi,C. W. Peck,Sergio Petrera,P. Pistilli,P. Pistilli,V. Popa,V. Pugliese,A. Rainò,J. Reynoldson,Frederic Jean Ronga,U. Rubizzo,A. Sanzgiri,A. Sanzgiri,C. Satriano,C. Satriano,L. Satta,Eugenio Scapparone,Kate Scholberg,A. Sciubba,P. Serra-Lugaresi,M. Severi,Maximiliano Sioli,M. Sitta,P. Spinelli,M. Spinetti,Maurizio Spurio,R. Steinberg,J. L. Stone,L. R. Sulak,A. Surdo,Gregory Tarle,V. Togo,D. Ugolotti,M. Vakili,C. W. Walter,R. C. Webb +135 more
TL;DR: In this article, a measurement of the flux of neutrino-induced upgoing muons ( ν >∼ 100 GeV) using the MACRO detector is presented, where the ratio of the observed to expected events integrated over all zenith angles is 0.74 ± 0.036 (stat) ±0.13 (theoretical).
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Final results of magnetic monopole searches with the MACRO experiment
M. Ambrosio,R. Antolini,G. Auriemma,G. Auriemma,D. Bakari,A. Baldini,G. C. Barbarino,Barry C. Barish,G. Battistoni,Yvonne Becherini,Roberto Bellotti,C. Bemporad,P. Bernardini,Halina Bilokon,C. Bloise,C. R. Bower,M. Brigida,Severino Angelo Maria Bussino,F. Cafagna,M. Calicchio,D. Campana,M. Carboni,R. Caruso,S. Cecchini,Fabrizio Cei,V. Chiarella,Tommaso Chiarusi,B. C. Choudhary,S. Coutu,S. Coutu,M. Cozzi,G. de Cataldo,H. Dekhissi,C. De Marzo,I. De Mitri,J. Derkaoui,M. De Vincenzi,A. Di Credico,O. Erriquez,C. Favuzzi,C. Forti,P. Fusco,G. Giacomelli,G. Giannini,G. Giannini,N. Giglietto,M. Giorgini,M. Grassi,A. A. Grillo,F. Guarino,C. Gustavino,Alec Habig,Kael Hanson,R.M. Heinz,E. Iarocci,E. Katsavounidis,E. Katsavounidis,Ioannis Katsavounidis,E. Kearns,Hyun-Chul Kim,S. Kyriazopoulou,Ashavani Kumar,Ashavani Kumar,E. Lamanna,E. Lamanna,C. E. Lane,D. Levin,Paolo Lipari,Np Longley,Np Longley,M. J. Longo,F. Loparco,F. Maaroufi,G. Mancarella,G. Mandrioli,Shahid Manzoor,Shahid Manzoor,Annarita Margiotta,Andrea Carlo Marini,D. Martello,A. Marzari-Chiesa,D. Matteuzzi,M. N. Mazziotta,D. G. Michael,P. Monacelli,Teresa Montaruli,Marco Monteno,S. L. Mufson,J. A. Musser,Donato Nicolo,R. Nolty,C. Orth,Giuseppe Osteria,O. Palamara,Vincenzo Patera,L. Patrizii,R. Pazzi,C. W. Peck,L. Perrone,S. Petrera,P. Pistilli,V. Popa,A. Rainò,J. Reynoldson,F.J. Ronga,A. Rrhioua,C. Satriano,C. Satriano,Eugenio Scapparone,Kate Scholberg,Kate Scholberg,A. Sciubba,P. Serra,Maximiliano Sioli,G. Sirri,Mario Sitta,Mario Sitta,P. Spinelli,M. Spinetti,Maurizio Spurio,R. Steinberg,J. L. Stone,L. R. Sulak,A. Surdo,Gregory Tarle,V. Togo,M. Vakili,C. W. Walter,R. C. Webb +128 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the final results obtained by the MACRO experiment in the search for GUT magnetic monopoles in the penetrating cosmic radiation, for the range 4×10 −5 <β < 1.
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Matter effects in upward-going muons and sterile neutrino oscillations
M. Ambrosio,R. Antolini,G. Auriemma,G. Auriemma,D. Bakari,A. Baldini,G. C. Barbarino,Barry C. Barish,G. Battistoni,Yvonne Becherini,Roberto Bellotti,C. Bemporad,P. Bernardini,Halina Bilokon,V. Bisi,C. Bloise,C. R. Bower,M. Brigida,Severino Angelo Maria Bussino,F. Cafagna,M. Calicchio,D. Campana,M. Carboni,R. Caruso,S. Cecchini,S. Cecchini,Fabrizio Cei,V. Chiarella,B. C. Choudhary,S. Coutu,G. de Cataldo,H. Dekhissi,C. De Marzo,I. De Mitri,J. Derkaoui,M. De Vincenzi,A. Di Credico,O. Erriquez,C. Favuzzi,C. Forti,P. Fusco,G. Giacomelli,G. Giannini,G. Giannini,N. Giglietto,M. Giorgini,M. Grassi,Lindsey Gray,Alexander Grillo,Fausto Guarino,C. Gustavino,Alec Habig,Alec Habig,Kael Hanson,R.M. Heinz,E. Iarocci,E. Katsavounidis,E. Katsavounidis,Ioannis Katsavounidis,E. Kearns,Hyun-Chul Kim,S. Kyriazopoulou,E. Lamanna,E. Lamanna,C. E. Lane,D. Levin,Paolo Lipari,Np Longley,Michael J. Longo,F. Loparco,F. Maaroufi,G. Mancarella,G. Mandrioli,G. Mandrioli,Annarita Margiotta,Andrea Carlo Marini,D. Martello,A. Marzari-Chiesa,M. N. Mazziotta,D. G. Michael,S P Mikheyev,S P Mikheyev,L. Miller,P. Monacelli,Teresa Montaruli,Marco Monteno,S. L. Mufson,J. A. Musser,Donato Nicolo,R. Nolty,C. Orth,Giuseppe Osteria,O. Palamara,Vincenzo Patera,L. Patrizii,R. Pazzi,C. W. Peck,L. Perrone,Sergio Petrera,P. Pistilli,V. Popa,A. Rainò,J. Reynoldson,Frederic Jean Ronga,A. Rrhioua,C. Satriano,C. Satriano,Eugenio Scapparone,Kate Scholberg,Kate Scholberg,A. Sciubba,P. Serra,Maximiliano Sioli,G. Sirri,Mario Sitta,Mario Sitta,P. Spinelli,M. Spinetti,Maurizio Spurio,R. Steinberg,J. L. Stone,L. R. Sulak,A. Surdo,Gregory Tarle,V. Togo,M. Vakili,C. W. Walter,R. C. Webb +127 more
TL;DR: 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 ν μ → ν τ oscillations with maximum mixing and Δm 2 around 0.0024 eV 2.