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Most cited papers in Neutrino Physics Research

What are the most cited papers in Neutrino Physics Research?

The most cited paper in Neutrino Physics Research is "Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos" (Y. Fukuda et al., 1998), with 5,135 citations. Next come "μ→eγ at a rate of one out of 109 muon decays?" (4,789) and "Neutrino oscillations in matter" (4,149).

Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 852 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#Paper
1 Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos Y. Fukuda et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access121 authors 24 Aug 1998 5,135
2 μ→eγ at a rate of one out of 109 muon decays? Peter Minkowski · Physics Letters B Apr 1977 4,789
3 Neutrino oscillations in matter L. Wolfenstein · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields May 1978 4,149
4 The search for supersymmetry: Probing physics beyond the standard model Howard E. Haber · Physics Reports 1985 3,856
5 Neutrino masses in SU(2) ⊗ U(1) theories J. Schechter, José W.F. Valle · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields Nov 1980 3,295
6 Unified approach to the classical statistical analysis of small signals G. J. Feldman, Robert D. Cousins · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields Open access Apr 1998 3,164
7 Review of Particle Properties K. Hagiwara et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 140 authors Jul 2002 3,120
8 Presentation of search results: the CL s technique Alexander Lincoln Read · Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics Open access 27 Sep 2002 3,038
9 Direct Evidence for Neutrino Flavor Transformation from Neutral-Current Interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Rushdy Ahmad et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access179 authors 13 Jun 2002 3,030
10 First Results from KamLAND: Evidence for Reactor Antineutrino Disappearance K. Eguchi et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 17 Jan 2003 2,725
11 Theory and phenomenology of two-Higgs-doublet models G.C. Branco, P. M. Ferreira, L. Lavoura et al. · Physics Reports Open access 5 Mar 2012 2,706
12 NINE-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE ( WMAP ) OBSERVATIONS: FINAL MAPS AND RESULTS C. L. Bennett et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Open access 20 Sep 2013 2,432
13 Neutrino masses and mixings in gauge models with spontaneous parity violation Rabindra Nath Mohapatra, Goran Senjanović · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 1981 2,414
14 Observation of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay Fengpeng An et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access271 authors 23 Apr 2012 2,233
15 An anomalous positron abundance in cosmic rays with energies 1.5–100 GeV O. Adriani et al. · Nature Open access Apr 2009 2,174
16 Experimental Test of Parity Conservation in Beta Decay Chenye Wu, Ernest Ambler, Raymond W. Hayward et al. · Physical Review Open access 15 Feb 1957 2,117
17 Observation of a neutrino burst from the supernova SN1987A Keiko Hirata et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 6 Apr 1987 2,000
18 Measurement of the Solar Electron Neutrino Flux with the Homestake Chlorine Detector Bruce T. Cleveland, T. Daily, Raymond J. Davis et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 20 Mar 1998 1,971
19 Measurement of the Rate of ν e + d → p + p + e − Interactions Produced by B 8 Solar Neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Rushdy Ahmad et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access178 authors 25 Jul 2001 1,952
20 Observation of Reactor Electron Antineutrinos Disappearance in the RENO Experiment J. K. Ahn et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 11 May 2012 1,899
21 Hierarchy of quark masses, cabibbo angles and CP violation Colin D. Froggatt, HOLGER BECH NIELSEN · Nuclear Physics B 1979 1,872
22 Observation of a neutrino burst in coincidence with supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud R. M. Bionta et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 6 Apr 1987 1,739
23 Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector IceCube Collaboration et al. · Science Open access278 authors 21 Nov 2013 1,634
24 Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old, and Combined Supernova Data Sets Marek P. Kowalski et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 17 Oct 2008 1,565
25 Evidence for neutrino oscillations from the observation of ν ¯ e appearance in a ν ¯ μ beam A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields Open access 13 Nov 2001 1,552
26 Tri-bimaximal mixing and the neutrino oscillation data P. F. Harrison, Don H. Perkins, William G. Scott · Physics Letters B Open access Mar 2002 1,444
27 Minimal flavour violation: an effective field theory approach G. D'Ambrosio, G.F. Giudice, G. Isidori et al. · Nuclear Physics B Open access Nov 2002 1,435
28 Resonant amplification of ν oscillations in matter and solar-neutrino spectroscopy S. Mikheyev, A. Yu. Smirnov · Il Nuovo Cimento C 1986 1,425
29 Left-right gauge symmetry and an "isoconjugate" model of CP violation Rabindra Nath Mohapatra, Jogesh C. Pati · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields Feb 1975 1,413
30 Verifiable radiative seesaw mechanism of neutrino mass and dark matter Ernest Ma · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields Open access 14 Apr 2006 1,402
31 Oscillating neutrinos and μ→e,γ J.A. Casas, Alejandro Ibarra · Nuclear Physics B Open access Dec 2001 1,391
32 Indication of Electron Neutrino Appearance from an Accelerator-Produced Off-Axis Muon Neutrino Beam Kazuki ABE et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access411 authors 18 Jul 2011 1,353
33 Asymptotic Sum Rules at Infinite Momentum James D. Bjorken · Physical Review 25 Mar 1969 1,340
34 Reactor antineutrino anomaly G. Mention, M. Fechner, Th. Lasserre et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields Open access 29 Apr 2011 1,334
35 Neutrino mass and baryon-number nonconservation in superstring models Rabindra Nath Mohapatra, José W.F. Valle · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields Open access Sep 1986 1,329
36 GALLEX solar neutrino observations: results for GALLEX IV Wolfgang Hampel et al. · Physics Letters B Feb 1999 1,325
37 Higgs mass and vacuum stability in the Standard Model at NNLO Giuseppe Degrassi, Stefano Di Vita, Joan Elias-Miró et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics Open access Aug 2012 1,277
38 Limits on neutrino oscillations from the CHOOZ experiment M. Apollonio et al. · Physics Letters B Open access Nov 1999 1,260
39 Comptonization of diffuse ambient radiation by a relativistic jet: The source of gamma rays from blazars? M. Sikora, Mitchell C. Begelman, Martin John Rees · The Astrophysical Journal 1994 1,244
40 Explosion Mechanisms of Core-Collapse Supernovae Hans‐Thomas Janka · Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science ReviewOpen access 26 Jul 2012 1,228
41 Indication of Reactor ν ¯ e Disappearance in the Double Chooz Experiment Yoshihisa Abe et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access185 authors 28 Mar 2012 1,219
42 Neutrino physics with JUNO Fengpeng An et al. · Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics Open access228 authors 11 Feb 2016 1,208
43 NUCLEAR PROPERTIES FOR ASTROPHYSICAL AND RADIOACTIVE-ION-BEAM APPLICATIONS Peter Möller, J. Rayford Nix, Karl Ludwig Kratz · Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables Jul 1997 1,196
44 Observation of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos in Three Years of IceCube Data M. G. Aartsen et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access297 authors 2 Sep 2014 1,173
45 The fate of hints: updated global analysis of three-flavor neutrino oscillations Ivan Esteban, M. C. González-García, Michele Maltoni et al. · Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Open access 2020 1,172
46 A complete analysis of FCNC and CP constraints in general SUSY extensions of the standard model F. Gabbiani, E. Gabrielli, A. Masiero et al. · Nuclear Physics B Open access Oct 1996 1,166
47 Neutrino decay and spontaneous violation of lepton number J. Schechter, José W.F. Valle · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields Feb 1982 1,137
48 Search for Neutrinos from the Sun Raymond E. Davis, Don S. Harmer, Kenneth C. Hoffman · Physical Review Letters 20 May 1968 1,137
49 Neutrino mass problem and gauge hierarchy Manfred Magg, CHRISTOF WETTERICH · Physics Letters B Jul 1980 1,126
50 COMPLEX SPINORS AND UNIFIED THEORIES Murray Gell‐Mann, Pierre Ramond, Richard C. Slansky · World Scientific series in 20th century physics Book chapter Feb 2010 1,121

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