Results from the OPERA Experiment in the CNGS Beam

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2018-12-01

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Paoloni, Alessandro
Agafonova, N.
Alexandrov, A.
Anokhina, A.
Aoki, S.
Ariga, A.
Ariga, T.
Bertolin, A.
Bozza, C.
Brugnera, R.
Buonaura, A.
Buontempo, S.
Chernyavskiy, M.
Chukanov, A.
Consiglio, L.
D'Ambrosio, N.
De Lellis, G.
De Serio, M.
Sanchez, Del Amo P.
Di Crescenzo, A.
Di Ferdinando, D.
Di Marco, N.
Dmitrievsky, S.
Dracos, M.
Duchesneau, D.
Dusini, S.
Dzhatdoev, T.
Ebert, J.
Ereditato, A.
Fini, R. A.
Fornari, F.
Fukuda, T.
Galati, G.
Garfagnini, A.
Gentile, V
Goldberg, J.
Gorbunov, S.
Gornushkin, Y.
Grella, G.
Güler, Ali Murat
Gustavino, C.
Hagner, C.
Hara, T.
Hayakawa, T.
Hollnagel, A.
Ishiguro, K.
Iuliano, A.
Jakovcic, K.
Jollet, C.
Kamiscioglu, C.
Kamiscioglu, M.
Kim, S. H.
Kitagawa, N.
Klicek, B.
Kodama, K.
Komatsu, M.
Kose, U.
Kreslo, I
Laudisio, F.
Lauria, A.
Ljubicic, A.
Longhin, A.
Loverre, P. F.
Malgin, A.
Mandrioli, G.
Matsuo, T.
Matveev, V
Mauri, N.
Medinaceli, E.
Meregaglia, A.
Mikado, S.
Miyanishi, M.
Mizutani, F.
Monacelli, P.
Montesi, M. C.
Morishima, K.
Muciaccia, M. T.
Naganawa, N.
Naka, T.
Nakamura, M.
Nakano, T.
Niwa, K.
Ogawa, S.
Okateva, N.
Ozaki, K.
Paparella, L.
Park, B. D.
Pasqualini, L.
Pastore, A.
Patrizii, L.
Pessard, H.
Podgrudkov, D.
Polukhina, N.
Pozzato, M.
Pupilli, F.
Roda, M.
Roganova, T.
Rokujo, H.
Rosa, G.
Ryazhskaya, O.
Sato, O.
Schembri, A.
Shakiryanova, I
Shchedrina, T.
Shibayama, E.
Shibuya, H.
Shiraishi, T.
Simone, S.
Sirignano, C.
Sirri, G.
Sotnikov, A.
Spinetti, M.
Stanco, L.
Starkov, N.
Stellacci, S. M.
Stipcevic, M.
Strolin, P.
Takahashi, S.
Tenti, M.
Terranova, F.
Tioukov, V
Vasina, S.
Vilain, P.
Voevodina, E.
Votano, L.
Vuilleumier, J. L.
Wilquet, G.
Yoon, C. S.

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The OPERA experiment was designed to observe v(mu) -> v(tau) oscillations through tau appearance on the CERN Neutrino to Gran Sasso (CNGS) beam over a baseline of 730 km. OPERA was a hybrid experiment composed of lead plates and emulsion layers acting as a target for neutrino interactions. The experiment was complemented with electronic detectors: scintillator strips used as Target Trackers and muon spectrometers. A review of the OPERA final results is presented in this paper.

Subject Keywords

neutrino oscillations, OPERA experiment, Tau neutrino cross section, cosmic ray physics, NEUTRINO OSCILLATION EXPERIMENTS, SIMULATION

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102317

Journal

UNIVERSE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3390/universe4120143

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Department of Physics, Article

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A. Paoloni et al., “Results from the OPERA Experiment in the CNGS Beam,” UNIVERSE, vol. 4, no. 12, pp. 0–0, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102317.