20–27 juil. 2011
Alpes Congrès - Alpexpo
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

Updated results of the OPERA long baseline neutrino experiment

22 juil. 2011, 15:35
15m
Oisans (Alpes Congrès - Alpexpo)

Oisans

Alpes Congrès - Alpexpo

Parallel session talk Neutrino Physics Neutrino Physics

Orateur

Dr DUSINI Stefano (Padova University and INFN)

Description

The OPERA neutrino detector built in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory is designed to detect muon-neutrino to tau-neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode. The hybrid apparatus consists of an emulsion/lead target complemented by electronic detectors. It is placed in the long-baseline CERN to Gran Sasso neutrino beam (CNGS) 730 km away from the source. The experimental set-up and ancillary facilities used to extract data recorded in the emulsion will be described, with the special procedures used to locate the interactions vertices and detect short decay topologies. OPERA is taking data since 2008. A first nu-tau interaction candidate was already published in 2010. An improved analysis scheme associated with a more detailed simulation has been developed and new results with increased statistics will be presented.

Auteur principal

Dr Henri PESSARD (LAPP-IN2P3-CNRS)

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