Orateur
Dr
Alessandra Pastore
(Bari University & INFN)
Description
The OPERA experiment was designed to investigate muon to tau neutrino oscillations in appearance mode. Physics data were collected from 2008 to the end of 2012 in the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso (CNGS) $\nu_\mu$ beam and neutrino interactions have been studied on an event-by-event base. Five tau neutrino candidate events have been detected in the analyzed data sample, assessing the discovery of the appearance of tau neutrino in the CNGS beam with a significance larger than 5 sigma. Limits on muon to tau and muon to electron neutrino oscillations induced by additional neutrino states have also been derived.
In this talk, we will present an overview of the OPERA experiment and its latest results.
Author
Dr
Alessandra Pastore
(Bari University & INFN)
