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The CNGS Neutrino Beam

The CERN to Gran Sasso Neutrino beam (CNGS) was commissioned at CERN in early August 2006 and was first sent at low intensity to Gran Sasso on August 17, 2006. The Borexino, LVD and OPERA experiments continued the commissioning of their…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Giacomelli

First events from the CNGS neutrino beam detected in the OPERA experiment

The OPERA neutrino detector at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) was designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in appearance mode, through the study of nu_mu to nu_tau oscillations. The apparatus consists…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The OPERA Collaboration

Observation of a first $\nu_\tau$ candidate in the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam

The OPERA neutrino detector in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) has been designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode through the study of the $\nu_\mu\rightarrow\nu_\tau$ channel.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-01-17 N. Agafonova et al.

The detection of neutrino interactions in the emulsion/lead target of the OPERA experiment

The OPERA neutrino detector in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) was designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in appearance mode through the study of $\nu_\mu\to\nu_\tau$ oscillations. The apparatus…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-08-05 N. Agafonova

Measurement of the velocity of neutrinos from the CNGS beam with the Large Volume Detector

We report the measurement of the time-of-flight of ~17 GeV muon neutrinos on the CNGS baseline (732 km) with the Large Volume Detector (LVD) at the Gran Sasso Laboratory. The CERN-SPS accelerator has been operated from May 10th to May 24th…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-20 N. Yu. Agafonova , M. Aglietta , P. Antonioli , V. V. Ashikhmin , G. Bari , R. Bertoni , E. Bressan , G. Bruno , V. L. Dadykin , W. Fulgione , P. Galeotti , M. Garbini , P. L. Ghia , P. Giusti , E. Kemp , A. S. Mal'gin , B. Miguez , A. Molinario , R. Persiani , I. A. Pless , V. G. Ryasny , O. G. Ryazhskaya , O. Saavedra , G. Sartorelli , I. R. Shakyrianova , M. Selvi , G. Trinchero , C. Vigorito , V. F. Yakushev , A. Zichichi , A. Razeto

Search for \nu_\mu -> \nu_\tau oscillations in appearance mode in the OPERA experiment

The OPERA experiment in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) has been designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the muon neutrino to tau neutrino channel. The detector is hybrid,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-02 Umut Kose

Search for $\nu_\mu\rightarrow\nu_\tau$ oscillation with the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam

The OPERA neutrino experiment in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) was designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the $\nu_\mu\rightarrow\nu_\tau$ channel, the $\nu_\tau$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The OPERA Collaboration

CNGS beam monitor with the LVD detector

The importance of an adequate CNGS beam monitor at the Gran Sasso Laboratory has been stressed in many papers. Since the number of internal $\nu_\mu$ CC and NC interactions in the various detectors will not allow to collect statistics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Aglietta , P. Antonioli , G. Bari , C. Castagnoli , W. Fulgione , P. Galeotti , M. Garbini , P. L. Ghia , P. Giusti , E. Kemp , A. S. Malguin , H. Menghetti , A. Pesci , I. A. Pless , A. Porta , V. G. Ryasny , O. G. Ryazhskaya , O. Saavedra , G. Sartorelli , M. Selvi , C. Vigorito , L. Votano , V. F. Yakushev , G. T. Zatsepin , A. Zichichi

OPERA first events from the CNGS neutrino beam

The aim of the OPERA experiment is to search for the appearance of the tau neutrino in the quasi pure muon neutrino beam produced at CERN (CNGS). The detector, installed in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory 730 km away from CERN,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-06-13 J. Marteau

Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam

The OPERA neutrino experiment at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory has measured the velocity of neutrinos from the CERN CNGS beam over a baseline of about 730 km. The measurement is based on data taken by OPERA in the years 2009, 2010…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-30 The OPERA Collaboration , T. Adam , N. Agafonova , A. Aleksandrov , O. Altinok , P. Alvarez Sanchez , A. Anokhina , S. Aoki , A. Ariga , T. Ariga , D. Autiero , A. Badertscher , A. Ben Dhahbi , A. Bertolin , C. Bozza , T. Brugiere , R. Brugnera , F. Brunet , G. Brunetti , S. Buontempo , B. Carlus , F. Cavanna , A. Cazes , L. Chaussard , M. Chernyavsky , V. Chiarella , A. Chukanov , G. Colosimo , M. Crespi , N. D'Ambrosio , G. De Lellis , M. De Serio , Y. Declais , P. del Amo Sanchez , F. Di Capua , A. Di Crescenzo , D. Di Ferdinando , N. Di Marco , S. Dmitrievsky , M. Dracos , D. Duchesneau , S. Dusini , T. Dzhatdoev , J. Ebert , I. Efthymiopoulos , O. Egorov , A. Ereditato , L. S. Esposito , J. Favier , T. Ferber , R. A. Fini , T. Fukuda , A. Garfagnini , G. Giacomelli , M. Giorgini , M. Giovannozzi , C. Girerd , J. Goldberg , C. Gollnitz , D. Golubkov , L. Goncharova , Y. Gornushkin , G. Grella , F. Grianti , E. Gschwendtner , C. Guerin , A. M. Guler , C. Gustavino , C. Hagner , K. Hamada , T. Hara , R. Enikeev , M. Hierholzer , A. Hollnagel , M. Ieva , H. Ishida , K. Ishiguro , K. Jakovcic , C. Jollet , M. Jones , F. Juget , M. Kamiscioglu , J. Kawada , S. H. Kim , M. Kimura , E. Kiritsis , N. Kitagawa , B. Klicek , J. Knuesel , K. Kodama , M. Komatsu , U. Kose , I. Kreslo , C. Lazzaro , J. Lenkeit , A. Ljubicic , A. Longhin , A. Malgin , G. Mandrioli , J. Marteau , T. Matsuo , V. Matveev , N. Mauri , A. Mazzoni , E. Medinaceli , F. Meisel , A. Meregaglia , P. Migliozzi , S. Mikado , D. Missiaen , P. Monacelli , K. Morishima , U. Moser , M. T. Muciaccia , N. Naganawa , T. Naka , M. Nakamura , T. Nakano , Y. Nakatsuka , D. Naumov , V. Nikitina , F. Nitti , S. Ogawa , N. Okateva , A. Olchevsky , O. Palamara , A. Paoloni , B. D. Park , I. G. Park , A. Pastore , L. Patrizii , E. Pennacchio , H. Pessard , C. Pistillo , N. Polukhina , M. Pozzato , K. Pretzl , F. Pupilli , R. Rescigno , F. Riguzzi , T. Roganova , H. Rokujo , G. Rosa , I. Rostovtseva , A. Rubbia , A. Russo , V. Ryasny , O. Ryazhskaya , O. Sato , Y. Sato , Z. Sahnoun , A. Schembri , J. Schuler , L. Scotto Lavina , J. Serrano , I. Shakiryanova , A. Sheshukov , H. Shibuya , G. Shoziyoev , S. Simone , M. Sioli , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. S. Song , M. Spinetti , L. Stanco , N. Starkov , S. Stellacci , M. Stipcevic , T. Strauss , S. Takahashi , M. Tenti , F. Terranova , I. Tezuka , V. Tioukov , P. Tolun , N. T. Tran , S. Tufanli , P. Vilain , M. Vladimirov , L. Votano , J. -L. Vuilleumier , G. Wilquet , B. Wonsak , J. Wurtz , V. Yakushev , C. S. Yoon , J. Yoshida , Y. Zaitsev , S. Zemskova , A. Zghiche

New results on $\nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau$ appearance with the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam

The OPERA neutrino experiment is designed to perform the first observation of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the $\nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau$ channel, via the detection of the $\tau$-leptons created in charged current…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-08-13 OPERA Collaboration , N. Agafonova , A. Aleksandrov , A. Anokhina , S. Aoki , A. Ariga , T. Ariga , T. Asada , D. Autiero , A. Badertscher , A. Ben Dhahbi , D. Bender , A. Bertolin , C. Bozza , R. Brugnera , G. Brunetti , B. Buettner , S. Buontempo , L. Chaussard , M. Chernyavskiy , V. Chiarella , A. Chukanov , L. Consiglio , N. D'Ambrosio , P. Del Amo Sanchez , G. De Lellis , M. De Serio , A. Di Crescenzo , D. Di Ferdinando , N. Di Marco , S. Dmitrievski , M. Dracos , D. Duchesneau , S. Dusini , J. Ebert , A. Ereditato , J. Favier , T. Ferber , R. A. Fini , T. Fukuda , A. Garfagnini , G. Giacomelli , C. Goellnitz , J. Goldberg , Y. Gornushkin , G. Grella , F. Grianti , A. M. Guler , C. Gustavino , C. Hagner , K. Hakamata , T. Hara , T. Hayakawa , M. Hierholzer , A. Hollnagel , B. Hosseini , H. Ishida , K. Ishiguro , M. Ishikawa , K. Jakovcic , C. Jollet , C. Kamiscioglu , M. Kamiscioglu , T. Katsuragawa , H. Kawahara , J. Kawada , J. H. Kim , S. H. Kim , M. Kimura , N. Kitagawa , B. Klicek , K. Kodama , M. Komatsu , U. Kose , I. Kreslo , A. Lauria , J. Lenkeit , A. Ljubicic , A. Longhin , P. Loverre , A. Malgin , G. Mandrioli , J. Marteau , T. Matsuo , V. Matveev , N. Mauri , E. Medinaceli , A. Meregaglia , P. Migliozzi , S. Mikado , A. Minotti , M. Miyanishi , E. Miyashita , P. Monacelli , M. C. Montesi , K. Morishima , M. T. Muciaccia , N. Naganawa , T. Naka , M. Nakamura , T. Nakano , Y. Nakatsuka , K. Niwa , S. Ogawa , N. Okateva , A. Olshevsky , T. Omura , K. Ozaki , A. Paoloni , B. D. Park , I. G. Park , A. Pastore , L. Patrizii , E. Pennacchio , H. Pessard , C. Pistillo , D. Podgrudkov , N. Polukhina , M. Pozzato , K. Pretzl , F. Pupilli , R. Rescigno , M. Roda , T. Roganova , H. Rokujo , G. Rosa , I. Rostovtseva , A. Rubbia , A. Russo , O. Ryazhskaya , O. Sato , Y. Sato , A. Schembri , W. Schmidt-Parzefall , I. Shakiryanova , T. Schcedrina , A. Sheshukov , H. Shibuya , T. Shiraishi , G. Shoziyoev , S. Simone , M. Sioli , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , M. Spinetti , L. Stanco , N. Starkov , S. M. Stellacci , M. Stipcevic , T. Strauss , P. Strolin , K. Suzuki , S. Takahashi , M. Tenti , F. Terranova , V. Tioukov , P. Tolun , S. Tufanli , P. Vilain , M. Vladimirov , L. Votano , J. L. Vuilleumier , G. Wilquet , B. Wonsak , C. S. Yoon , J. Yoshida , M. Yoshimoto , Y. Zaitsev , S. Zemskova , A. Zghiche

The OPERA experiment: a direct search of the $\nu_\mu \longrightarrow \nu_\tau$ oscillations

The aim of the OPERA experiment is to search for the appearance of the tau neutrino in the quasi pure muon neutrino beam produced at CERN (CNGS). The detector, installed in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory 730 km away from CERN,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Marteau

LVD highlights

The Large Volume Detector (LVD) in the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy, is a $\nu$ observatory mainly designed to study low energy neutrinos from the gravitational collapse of galactic objects. The experiment has been monitoring…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Marco Selvi

Speed of the CERN Neutrinos released on 22.9.2011 - Was stated superluminality due to neglecting General Relativity?

During the years 2009 to 2011, neutrino beams were fired repeatedly from CERN towards a detector in Italy's Gran Sasso tunnel, some 4 deg south and 7 deg east of CERN, at a distance of 730.5 km, in the shape of short bunches of particles.…

General Physics · Physics 2011-11-17 Wolfgang Kundt

The CERN-Gran Sasso Neutrino Program

This paper reviews the current experimental program envisaged with the future CERN neutrino beam called CNGS. Two detectors, OPERA and ICARUS, are under preparation and should investigate the neutrino properties coming from the CNGS to shed…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Duchesneau

Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the ICARUS detector at the CNGS beam

The CERN-SPS accelerator has been briefly operated in a new, lower intensity neutrino mode with ~10^12 p.o.t. /pulse and with a beam structure made of four LHC-like extractions, each with a narrow width of 3 ns, separated by 524 ns. This…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Antonello , P. Aprili , B. Baibussinov , M. Baldo Ceolin , P. Benetti , E. Calligarich , N. Canci , F. Carbonara , S. Centro , A. Cesana , K. Cieslik , D. B. Cline , A. G. Cocco , A. Dabrowska , D. Dequal , A. Dermenev , R. Dolfini , C. Farnese , A. Fava , A. Ferrari , G. Fiorillo , D. Gibin , A. Gigli Berzolari , S. Gninenko , A. Guglielmi , M. Haranczyk , J. Holeczek , A. Ivashkin , J. Kisiel , I. Kochanek , J. Lagoda , S. Mania , G. Mannocchi , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , C. Montanari , S. Otwinowski , L. Periale , A. Piazzoli , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , P. Plonski , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , P. Sala , E. Scantamburlo , A. Scaramelli , E. Segreto , F. Sergiampietri , D. Stefan , J. Stepaniak , R. Sulej , M. Szarska , M. Terrani , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli , H. Wang , X. Yang , A. Zalewska , K. Zaremba , P. Alvarez Sanchez , J. Serrano

Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam using the 2012 dedicated data

In spring 2012 CERN provided two weeks of a short bunch proton beam dedicated to the neutrino velocity measurement over a distance of 730 km. The OPERA neutrino experiment at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory used an upgraded setup…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 The OPERA Collaboration , T. Adam , N. Agafonova , A. Aleksandrov , A. Anokhina , S. Aoki , A. Ariga , T. Ariga , D. Autiero , A. Badertscher , A. Ben Dhahbi , M. Beretta , A. Bertolin , C. Bozza , T. Brugière , R. Brugnera , F. Brunet , G. Brunetti , B. Buettner , S. Buontempo , B. Carlus , F. Cavanna , A. Cazes , L. Chaussard , M. Chernyavsky , V. Chiarella , A. Chukanov , N. D'Ambrosio , G. De Lellis , M. De Serio , P. del Amo Sanchez , A. Di Crescenzo , D. Di Ferdinando , N. Di Marco , S. Dmitrievsky , M. Dracos , D. Duchesneau , S. Dusini , T. Dzhatdoev , J. Ebert , A. Ereditato , L. S. Esposito , J. Favier , G. Felici , T. Ferber , R. A. Fini , T. Fukuda , A. Garfagnini , G. Giacomelli , C. Girerd , C. Goellnitz , J. Goldberg , D. Golubkov , Y. Gornushkin , G. Grella , F. Grianti , C. Guerin , A. M. Guler , C. Gustavino , C. Hagner , K. Hamada , T. Hara , M. Hierholzer , A. Hollnagel , H. Ishida , K. Ishiguro , K. Jakovcic , C. Jollet , C. Kamiscioglu , M. Kamiscioglu , J. Kawada , J. H. Kim , S. H. Kim , M. Kimura , N. Kitagawa , B. Klicek , K. Kodama , M. Komatsu , U. Kose , I. Kreslo , A. Lauria , C. Lazzaro , J. Lenkeit , A. Ljubicic , A. Longhin , C. Mancini-Terracciano , A. Malgin , G. Mandrioli , J. Marteau , T. Matsuo , V. Matveev , N. Mauri , E. Medinaceli , A. Meregaglia , P. Migliozzi , S. Mikado , P. Monacelli , M. C. Montesi , K. Morishima , U. Moser , M. T. Muciaccia , M. Nakamura , T. Nakano , Y. Nakatsuka , D. Naumov , V. Nikitina , S. Ogawa , A. Olchevsky , K. Ozaki , O. Palamara , A. Paoloni , B. D. Park , I. G. Park , A. Pastore , L. Patrizii , E. Pennacchio , H. Pessard , C. Pistillo , D. Podgrudkov , N. Polukhina , M. Pozzato , K. Pretzl , F. Pupilli , R. Rescigno , M. Roda , T. Roganova , H. Rokujo , G. Rosa , I. Rostovtseva , A. Rubbia , A. Russo , O. Ryazhskaya , O. Sato , Y. Sato , A. Schembri , W. Schmidt-Parzefall , J. Schuler , I. Shakiryanova , A. Sheshukov , H. Shibuya , G. Shoziyoev , S. Simone , M. Sioli , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. S. Song , M. Spinetti , L. Stanco , N. Starkov , S. M. Stellacci , M. Stipcevic , T. Strauss , S. Takahashi , M. Tenti , F. Terranova , V. Tioukov , P. Tolun , S. Tufanli , P. Vilain , M. Vladimirov , L. Votano , J. L. Vuilleumier , G. Wilquet , B. Wonsak , J. Wurtz , C. S. Yoon , J. Yoshida , Y. Zaitsev , S. Zemskova , A. Zghiche , R. Zimmermann

A low energy optimization of the CERN-NGS neutrino beam for a theta_{13} driven neutrino oscillation search

The possibility to improve the CERN to Gran Sasso neutrino beam performances for theta_{13} searches is investigated. We show that by an appropriate optimization of the target and focusing optics of the present CNGS design, we can increase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Rubbia , P. Sala

Study of Neutrino Oscillations in the OPERA Experiment

The OPERA experiment has been designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the $\nu_{\mu}\to\nu_{\tau}$ channel, through the detection of the tau lepton produced in charged current…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-05-14 Umut Kose

Search for anomalies in the {\nu}e appearance from a {\nu}{\mu} beam

We report an updated result from the ICARUS experiment on the search for {\nu}{\mu} ->{\nu}e anomalies with the CNGS beam, produced at CERN with an average energy of 20 GeV and travelling 730 km to the Gran Sasso Laboratory. The present…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Antonello , B. Baibussinov , P. Benetti , F. Boffelli , A. Bubak , E. Calligarich , N. Canci , S. Centro , A. Cesana , K. Cieslik , D. B. Cline , A. G. Cocco , A. Dabrowska , D. Dequal , A. Dermenev , R. Dolfini , A. Falcone , C. Farnese , A. Fava , A. Ferrari , G. Fiorillo , D. Gibin , S. Gninenko , A. Guglielmi , M. Haranczyk , J. Holeczek , A. Ivashkin , M. Kirsanov , J. Kisiel , I. Kochanek , J. Lagoda , S. Mania , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , C. Montanari , S. Otwinowski , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , P. Plonski , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , P. Sala , A. Scaramelli , E. Segreto , F. Sergiampietri , D. Stefan , R. Sulej , M. Szarska , M. Terrani , M. Torti , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli , H. Wang , X. Yang , A. Zalewska , A. Zani , K. Zaremba