The DONUT experiment has analyzed 203 neutrino interactions recorded in nuclear emulsion targets. A decay search has found evi-

The DONuT experiment collected data in 1997 and published first results in 2000 based on four observed ντ charged-current (CC) interactions. The final analysis of the data collected in the experiment is presented in this paper, based on 3.6 × 10 17 protons on target using the 800 GeV Tevatron beam at Fermilab. The number of observed ντ CC interactions is 9, from a total of 578 observed neutrino interactions. We calculated the energy-independent part of the tau-neutrino CC cross section (ν +ν), relative to the well-known νe and νµ cross sections. The ratio σ(ντ )/σ(νe,µ) was found to be 1.37±0.35±0.77. The ντ CC cross section was found to be 0.72±0.24±0.36×10 −38 cm 2 GeV −1 . Both results are in agreement with expectations from the Standard Model.

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