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MPP Colloquium
Observation of a first nu-mu -> nu-tau candidate event in the OPERA experiment
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The OPERA long-baseline neutrino experiment is a hybrid electronic-emulsion experiment located in the underground INFN-LNGS Laboratory in central Italy. Its main goal is to observe nu-mu -> nu-tau oscillations in appearance mode in the CNGS nu-mu beam from CERN to Gran Sasso. The electronic detectors yielded information on the neutrino beam and localized where an interaction took place. Runs with CNGS neutrinos were successfully carried out in 2008, 2009 and 2010 (in progress). After a brief description of the beam and of the experimental setup (performance of the electronic detectors and collection, reconstruction and analysis of neutrino interaction events in the emulsions) I will discuss in detail the first nu-mu ->nu-tau candidate event observed in the OPERA experiment.