The OPERA experiment was designed to search for νμ → ντ oscillations in appearance mode, i.e., by detecting the τ leptons produced in charged current ντ interactions. The experiment took data from 2008 to 2012 in the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso beam. The observation of the νμ → ντ appearance, achieved with four candidate events in a subsample of the data, was previously reported. In this Letter, a fifth ντ candidate event, found in an enlarged data sample, is described. Together with a further reduction of the expected background, the candidate events detected so far allow us to assess the discovery of νμ → ντ oscillations in appearance mode with a significance larger than 5σ

Discovery of τ neutrino appearance in the CNGS neutrino beam with the OPERA experiment / N., A., A., A., A., A., Aoki, .S., A., A., Ariga, .T., D., B., Bertolin, .A., I., B., C., B., R., B., A., B., S., B., B., B., Chernyavsky, .M., A., C., L., C., N., D., G., D.L., M., D.S., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - STAMPA. - 115:121802(2015), pp. 1-7. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.121802]

Discovery of τ neutrino appearance in the CNGS neutrino beam with the OPERA experiment

LOVERRE, Pier Ferruccio;ROSA, Giovanni;
2015

Abstract

The OPERA experiment was designed to search for νμ → ντ oscillations in appearance mode, i.e., by detecting the τ leptons produced in charged current ντ interactions. The experiment took data from 2008 to 2012 in the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso beam. The observation of the νμ → ντ appearance, achieved with four candidate events in a subsample of the data, was previously reported. In this Letter, a fifth ντ candidate event, found in an enlarged data sample, is described. Together with a further reduction of the expected background, the candidate events detected so far allow us to assess the discovery of νμ → ντ oscillations in appearance mode with a significance larger than 5σ
2015
Neutrino oscillations; CNGS; OPERA experiment
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Discovery of τ neutrino appearance in the CNGS neutrino beam with the OPERA experiment / N., A., A., A., A., A., Aoki, .S., A., A., Ariga, .T., D., B., Bertolin, .A., I., B., C., B., R., B., A., B., S., B., B., B., Chernyavsky, .M., A., C., L., C., N., D., G., D.L., M., D.S., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - STAMPA. - 115:121802(2015), pp. 1-7. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.121802]
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