Published June 2009 | Version v1
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The detection of neutrino interactions in the emulsion/lead target of the OPERA experiment

Creators

  • 1. INR-Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RUS-117312 Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 2. SINP MSU-Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University, RUS-119992 Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 3. Kobe University, J-657-8501 Kobe (Japan)
  • 4. Centre for Research and Education in Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern (Switzerland)
  • 5. IPNL, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622 Villeurbanne (France)
  • 6. ETH Zurich, Institute for Particle Physics, CH-8093 Zurich (Switzerland)
  • 7. LPI-Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RUS-117924 Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 8. INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN, I-00044 Frascati (Roma) (Italy)
  • 9. INFN Sezione di Padova, I-35131 Padova (Italy)
  • 10. LAPP, Universite de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux (France)
  • 11. Hamburg University, D-22761 Hamburg (Germany)
  • 12. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita di Salerno and INFN, I-84084 Fisciano, Salerno (Italy)
  • 13. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita di Bologna, I-40127 Bologna (Italy)
  • 14. INFN Sezione di Napoli, 80125 Napoli (Italy)

Description

The OPERA neutrino detector in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) was designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in appearance mode through the study of νμ → ντ oscillations. The apparatus consists of an emulsion/lead target complemented by electronic detectors and it is placed in the high energy long-baseline CERN to LNGS beam (CNGS) 730 km away from the neutrino source. Runs with CNGS neutrinos were successfully carried out in 2007 and 2008 with the detector fully operational with its related facilities for the emulsion handling and analysis. After a brief description of the beam and of the experimental setup we report on the collection, reconstruction and analysis procedures of first samples of neutrino interaction events.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/4/06/P06020

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/1748-0221/4/06/P06020;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Instrumentation
Journal Volume
4
Journal Issue
06
Journal Page Range
p. P06020
ISSN
1748-0221

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41061228
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
CERN; ELECTRON DETECTION; EMULSIONS; INTERACTIONS; LEAD; MUON NEUTRINOS; NEUTRINO BEAMS; NEUTRINO DETECTION; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; TAU NEUTRINOS; UNDERGROUND FACILITIES
Descriptors DEC
BEAMS; CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION; COLLOIDS; DETECTION; DISPERSIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; FERMIONS; HEAVY LEPTONS; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; LEPTON BEAMS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; METALS; NEUTRINOS; PARTICLE BEAMS; RADIATION DETECTION