Affiliation:
1. Dipartimento di Fisica “E. Pancini”, Università Federico II di Napoli, Napoli, Italy
2. INFN Sezione di Napoli, via Cinthia, Napoli 80126, Italy
Abstract
The OPERA experiment was designed to discover the [Formula: see text] appearance in a pure [Formula: see text] beam, resulting from neutrino oscillations. The detector, located in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory, consisted of an emulsion/lead target complemented by electronic detectors and was exposed, from 2008 to 2012, to the (CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso (CNGS)) beam, an almost pure [Formula: see text] beam with a baseline of 730 km, collecting a total of [Formula: see text] protons on target. OPERA was unique in its capability of detecting all three neutrino flavors. OPERA discovered [Formula: see text] oscillations in appearance mode with a significance of [Formula: see text]. In this review, we report the major achievements of the OPERA experiment and its legacy in the nuclear emulsion technology.
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,Astronomy and Astrophysics,Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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