Results from the OPERA Experiment

L. Patrizii

Results from the OPERA Experiment

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2017-05-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Authors: L. Patrizii

Abstract

The OPERA experiment reached its main goal by proving the appearance of $\nu_{\tau}$ in the CNGS $\nu_{\mu}$ beam. A sample of five $\nu_{\tau}$ candidates was collected allowing to reject the null hypothesis at $5.1 \sigma$ . The estimation of $\Delta m^2_{23}$ in "appearance mode" has been obtained. Updates on the search for $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_e$ oscillations and on the search for sterile neutrino mixing in the $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_e$ and $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_\tau$ channels are also reported.

Keywords

opera neutrino experiment

Cite

@article{arxiv.1705.02454,
  title  = {Results from the OPERA Experiment},
  author = {L. Patrizii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.02454},
  year   = {2017}
}