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The detection of neutrino interactions in the emulsion/lead target of the OPERA experiment

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N Agafonova1, A Anokhina2, S Aoki3, A Ariga4, T Ariga4, L Arrabito5, D Autiero5, A Badertscher6, A Bagulya7, F Bersani Greggio8, A Bertolin9, M Besnier10, D Bick11, V Boyarkin1, C Bozza12, T Brugière5, R Brugnera9,13, G Brunetti14,15, S Buontempo16, E Carrara9,13, A Cazes5, L Chaussard5, M Chernyavsky7, V Chiarella8, N Chon-Sen17, A Chukanov16, M Cozzi14, G D'Amato12, F Dal Corso9, N D'Ambrosio18, G De Lellis16,19, Y Déclais5, M De Serio20, F Di Capua16, D Di Ferdinando15, A Di Giovanni21, N Di Marco21, C Di Troia8, S Dmitrievski22, A Dominjon5, M Dracos17, D Duchesneau10, S Dusini9, J Ebert11, O Egorov23, R Enikeev1, A Ereditato4, L S Esposito18, J Favier10, G Felici8, T Ferber11, R Fini20, D Frekers24, T Fukuda25, C Fukushima26, V I Galkin2, V A Galkin27, A Garfagnini9,13, G Giacomelli14,15, M Giorgini14,15, C Goellnitz11, T Goeltzenlichter17, J Goldberg28, D Golubkov23, Y Gornushkin22, G Grella12, F Grianti8, M Guler29, C Gustavino18, C Hagner11, K Hamada25, T Hara3, M Hierholzer30, K Hoshino25, M Ieva20, K Jakovcic31, B Janutta11, C Jollet17, F Juget4, M Kazuyama25, S H Kim32, M Kimura26, N Kitagawa25, B Klicek31, J Knuesel4, K Kodama33, D Kolev34, M Komatsu25, U Kose29, A Krasnoperov22, I Kreslo4, Z Krumstein22, H Kubota25, V V Kutsenov1, V A Kuznetsov1, I Laktineh5, C Lazzaro6, J Lenkeit11, A Ljubicic31, A Longhin13, G Lutter4, A Malgin1, K Manai5, G Mandrioli15, A Marotta16, J Marteau5, T Matsuo26, V Matveev1, N Mauri14,15, E Medinaceli15, F Meisel4, A Meregaglia17, M Messina4, P Migliozzi16, S Miyamoto25, P Monacelli21, K Morishima25, U Moser4, M T Muciaccia20,35, N Naganawa25, T Naka25, M Nakamura25, T Nakano25, V Nikitina2, K Niwa25, Y Nonoyama25, A Nozdrin22, S Ogawa26, A Olchevski22, G Orlova7, V Osedlo2, D Ossetski27, M Paniccia8, A Paoloni8, B D Park32, I G Park32, A Pastore20,35, L Patrizii15, E Pennacchio5, H Pessard10, V Pilipenko24, C Pistillo4, N Polukhina7, M Pozzato14,15, K Pretzl4, P Publichenko2, F Pupilli21, R Rescigno12, D Rizhikov27, T Roganova2, G Romano12, G Rosa36, I Rostovtseva23, A Rubbia6, A Russo16,19, V Ryasny1, O Ryazhskaya1, A Sadovski22, O Sato25, Y Sato37, V Saveliev27, A Schembri36, W Schmidt Parzefall11, H Schroeder30, H U Schütz4, J Schuler17, L Scotto Lavina16, H Shibuya26, S Simone20,35, M Sioli14,15, C Sirignano12, G Sirri15, J S Song32, M Spinetti8, L Stanco13, N Starkov7, M Stipcevic31, T Strauss6, P Strolin16,19, V Sugonyaev13, S Takahashi25, V Tereschenko22, F Terranova8, I Tezuka37, V Tioukov16, P Tolun29, V Tsarev7, R Tsenov34, S Tufanli29, N Ushida33, V Verguilov34, P Vilain38, M Vladimirov7, L Votano8, J L Vuilleumier4, G Wilquet38, B Wonsak11, V Yakushev1, C S Yoon32, T Yoshioka25, J Yoshida25, Y Zaitsev23, A Zghiche10 and R Zimmermann11

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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.

Keywords

Particle tracking detectors

Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics

PACS

13.15.+g Neutrino interactions

29.40.Rg Nuclear emulsions

29.40.Gx Tracking and position-sensitive detectors

14.60.Lm Ordinary neutrinos (nue, numu, nutau)

Subjects

Accelerators, beams and electromagnetism

Nuclear physics

Instrumentation and measurement

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 06 (June 2009)

Received 20 May 2009, accepted for publication 27 May 2009

Published 30 June 2009



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