The OPERA experiment

Pastore, Alessandra (2009) The OPERA experiment. Il nuovo cimento C, 32 (3\4). pp. 317-320. ISSN 1826-9885

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Abstract

OPERA is a long baseline neutrino experiment, designed to search for νμ → ντ oscillation through the direct observation of ντ in the almost pure CNGS νμ beam produced at CERN and detected at LNGS, the large underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory 732km away from CERN. The detector construction was completed at the beginning of 2008 and the data taking started in Summer 2008. In five years of data taking, the experiment is expected to collect about 10 to 15 ντ interactions. We discuss the performance of the detector, the event analysis flow and the physics potential as well as the preliminary results obtained in the 2008 run.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Neutrino mass and mixing ; Neutrino interactions ; Ordinary neutrinos (νe, νμ, ντ ) ; Tracking and position-sensitive detectors
Subjects: 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica
Depositing User: Marina Spanti
Date Deposited: 26 Mar 2020 20:15
Last Modified: 26 Mar 2020 20:15
URI: http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/16681

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