MPP Colloquium

Recent results from the OPERA experiment

by Dr Pablo Del Amo Sanchez (LAPP)

Europe/Berlin
Auditorium (MPI fuer Physik)

Auditorium

MPI fuer Physik

Description
The OPERA experiment has been designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in the Numu to Nutau channel, in direct appearance mode through the event by event detection of the tau lepton produced in Nutau Charged Current interactions. OPERA is a hybrid detector, made of emulsion/lead target elements and of electronic detectors, placed in the CNGS muon neutrino beam from CERN to Gran Sasso, 730 km away from the source. Neutrino interactions from the CNGS neutrino runs have been recorded from 2008 until the end of 2012. We shall report on the data sample analysed so far and give the latest OPERA results on Numu to Nutau and Numu to Nue oscillation searches.
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