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The OPERA experiment has discovered the tau neutrino appearance in the CNGS muon neutrino beam, in agreement with the 3 neutrino flavour oscillation hypothesis. The OPERA neutrino interaction target, made of Emulsion Cloud Chamber, was…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-06-08 OPERA Collaboration , N. Agafonova , A. Aleksandrov , A. Anokhina , S. Aoki , A. Ariga , T. Ariga , A. Bertolin , C. Bozza , R. Brugnera , A. Buonaura , S. Buontempo , M. Chernyavskiy , A. Chukanov , L. Consiglio , 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 , J. Favier , R. A. Fini , F. Fornari , T. Fukuda , G. Galati , A. Garfagnini , V. Gentile , J. Goldberg , Y. Gornushkin , S. Gorbunov , G. Grella , A. M. Guler , C. Gustavino , C. Hagner , T. Hara , T. Hayakawa , A. Hollnagel , B. Hosseini , K. Ishiguro , A. Iuliano , K. Jakovcic , C. Jollet , C. Kamiscioglu , M. Kamiscioglu , S. H. Kim , N. Kitagawa , B. Klicek , K. Kodama , M. Komatsu , U. Kose , I. Kreslo , F. Laudisio , A. Lauria , A. Ljubicic , A. Longhin , P. Loverre , A. Malgin , M. Malenica , G. Mandrioli , T. Matsuo , V. Matveev , N. Mauri , E. Medinaceli , F. Meisel , A. Meregaglia , S. Mikado , M. Miyanishi , F. Mizutani , P. Monacelli , M. C. Montesi , K. Morishima , M. T. Muciaccia , N. Naganawa , T. Naka , M. Nakamura , T. Nakano , K. Niwa , N. Okateva , S. Ogawa , K. Ozaki , A. Paoloni , L. Paparella , B. D. Park , L. Pasqualini , A. Pastore , L. Patrizii , H. Pessard , D. Podgrudkov , N. Polukhina , M. Pozzato , F. Pupilli , M. Roda , T. Roganova , H. Rokujo , G. Rosa , O. Ryazhskaya , O. Sato , A. Schembri , I. Shakiryanova , T. Shchedrina , H. Shibuya , E. Shibayama , T. Shiraishi , S. Simone , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , A. Sotnikov , M. Spinetti , L. Stanco , N. Starkov , S. M. Stellacci , M. Stipcevic , P. Strolin , S. Takahashi , M. Tenti , F. Terranova , V. Tioukov , S. Vasina , P. Vilain , E. Voevodina , L. Votano , J. L. Vuilleumier , G. Wilquet , C. S. Yoon

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

OPERA is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to observe $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{\tau}$ oscillations by looking at the appearance of $\nu_{\tau}$'s in an almost pure $\nu_\mu$ beam. The beam is produced at CERN and sent…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-05-22 Alberto Garfagnini , Ciro Pistillo

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

The OPERA experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment aimed at observing the $\nu_{\mu} \rightarrow \nu_{\tau} $ neutrino oscillation in the CERN neutrino to Gran Sasso beamline in the appearance mode by detecting the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Thomas Strauss

OPERA is an experiment that aims at detecting the appearance of tau-neutrino in an almost pure mu-neutrino beam (the CNGS neutrino beam) through oscillation. OPERA is a hybrid detector that associates nuclear emulsions to electronic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-20 Tsutomu Fukuda

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

The OPERA experiment at the CNGS beam has observed muon to tau neutrino oscillations in the atmospheric sector. Based on this result new limits on the mixing parameters of a massive sterile neutrino may be set. Preliminary results of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-10-15 Luca Stanco

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 present paper highlights the data analysis status of the OPERA experiment. The experiment was designed to perform the neutrino interactions analysis on event-by-event basis, and optimized to search for $\nu_{\mu} \rightarrow \nu_{\tau}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 T. A. Dzhatdoev , V. L. Troshina

OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion tRacking Apparatus)is an international collaboration between Europe and Asia, aiming to give the first direct proof of tau neutrino appearance in a pure muon neutrino beam, in order to validate the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-10-15 Dominique Duchesneau

The OPERA long-baseline oscillation experiment is located in the underground Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy. OPERA has been designed to observe nu-mu -> nu-tau appearance in the CNGS nu-mu beam, 730 km away from its source at CERN. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 H. Pessard

The poster presented the OPERA experiment and the SPL-Fr\'{e}jus neutrino super beam project. OPERA (1) is an experiment willing to see tau neutrino appearance. The detector is described in section 2 and the expected results are given.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-02-11 J. E. Campagne , A. Cazes , the OPERA Collaboration

OPERA(Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) is a new detector concept, iron(lead)-emulsion for a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. This experiment would perform an appearance search for nu_mu-nu_tau oscillation…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Iovane

The OPERA experiment will search for neutrino oscillations using a muon neutrino beam and a hybrid emulsion-scintillator detector. Basic principles, current status and expected performance of the experiment are discussed.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-12-07 N. Savvinov

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

We study the potential of the CNGS beam in constraining the parameter space of a model with one sterile neutrino separated from three active ones by an $\mathcal{O}(\eVq)$ mass-squared difference, $\Dmq_\Sbl$. We perform our analysis using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-06 A. Donini , M. Maltoni , D. Meloni , P. Migliozzi , F. Terranova

The OPERA experiment aims at measuring the \nu_{\mu} -> \nu_{\tau} oscillation through the \nu_{\tau} appearance in an almost pure \nu_{\mu} beam (CNGS). For the direct identification of the short-lived {\tau} lepton, produced in \nu_{\tau}…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-23 Fabio Pupilli

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

We notice that looking for $\nu_e \to \nu_\tau$ at the same time as $\nu_e \to \nu_\mu$ oscillations could significantly help to reduce the errors in the leptonic CP-violating phase $\delta$ measurement. We show how the $\nu_e \to \nu_\mu$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Donini , D. Meloni , P. Migliozzi