Orateur
Dr
Michele Pozzato
(Bologna University - INFN)
Description
OPERA is a long baseline hybrid experiment located in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory designed to study the nu_mu -> nu_tau neutrino oscillations. OPERA is the first experiment searching for nu_tau appearance from a pure high energy nu_mu beam (CNGS) produced at CERN and travelling a distance of 730 km to the OPERA detector. Tau leptons produced in charged current interactions are
identified from their decay topology using the technique of nuclear emulsions. After a brief introduction on the physics motivation, on the OPERA hybrid electronic-emulsion detector and the description of the principle of tau detection, the recent results are presented including a description of the first candidate nu_tau event.
Author
Dr
Michele Pozzato
(Bologna University - INFN)
