The OPERA experiment was designed to discover the vτ appearance in a vμ beam, due to neutrino oscillations. The detector, located in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory, consisted of a nuclear photographic emulsion/lead target with a mass of about 1.25 kt, complemented by electronic detectors. It was exposed from 2008 to 2012 to the CNGS beam: an almost pure vμ beam with a baseline of 730 km, collecting a total of 1.8·1020 protons on target. The OPERA Collaboration eventually assessed the discovery of vμ→vτ oscillations with a statistical significance of 6.1 σ by observing ten vτ CC interaction candidates. These events have been published on the Open Data Portal at CERN. This paper provides a detailed description of the vτ data sample to make it usable by the whole community. Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14979858.

OPERA tau neutrino charged current interactions / Agafonova, N., Alexandrov, A., Anokhina, A., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ariga, T., Bertolin, A., Bozza, C., Brugnera, R., Buonaura, A., Buontempo, S., Chernyavskiy, M., Chukanov, A., Consiglio, L., D'Ambrosio, N., De Lellis, G., De Serio, M., del Amo Sanchez, P., Di Crescenzo, A., Di Ferdinando, D., et al.. - In: SCIENTIFIC DATA. - ISSN 2052-4463. - 8:1(2021), p. 218. [10.1038/s41597-021-00991-y]

OPERA tau neutrino charged current interactions

Alexandrov A.;Buonaura A.;Consiglio L.;De Lellis G.
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Di Crescenzo A.;Galati G.
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Iuliano A.;Lauria A.;Montesi M. C.;Strolin P.;Voevodina E.;
2021

Abstract

The OPERA experiment was designed to discover the vτ appearance in a vμ beam, due to neutrino oscillations. The detector, located in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory, consisted of a nuclear photographic emulsion/lead target with a mass of about 1.25 kt, complemented by electronic detectors. It was exposed from 2008 to 2012 to the CNGS beam: an almost pure vμ beam with a baseline of 730 km, collecting a total of 1.8·1020 protons on target. The OPERA Collaboration eventually assessed the discovery of vμ→vτ oscillations with a statistical significance of 6.1 σ by observing ten vτ CC interaction candidates. These events have been published on the Open Data Portal at CERN. This paper provides a detailed description of the vτ data sample to make it usable by the whole community. Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14979858.
2021
OPERA tau neutrino charged current interactions / Agafonova, N., Alexandrov, A., Anokhina, A., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ariga, T., Bertolin, A., Bozza, C., Brugnera, R., Buonaura, A., Buontempo, S., Chernyavskiy, M., Chukanov, A., Consiglio, L., D'Ambrosio, N., De Lellis, G., De Serio, M., del Amo Sanchez, P., Di Crescenzo, A., Di Ferdinando, D., et al.. - In: SCIENTIFIC DATA. - ISSN 2052-4463. - 8:1(2021), p. 218. [10.1038/s41597-021-00991-y]
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