Status of the OPERA neutrino experiment
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The OPERA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is located in the underground Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy. OPERA has been designed to give the first direct proof of ντ appearance, looking at the CNGS νμ beam 730 km away from its source at CERN. The apparatus consists of a large set of emulsion-lead targets combined with electronic detectors. First runs in 2007 and 2008 helped checking that detector and related emulsion facilities are fully operational and led to successful first analysis of collected data. This paper, after a short description of the OPERA setup and methods, gives an updated status report on data reconstruction and analysis applied to available samples of neutrino events.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009