학술논문
Final results of the search for ν μ → ν e oscillations with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
Document Type
article
Author
The OPERA collaboration; N. Agafonova; A. Aleksandrov; A. Anokhina; S. Aoki; A. Ariga; T. Ariga; A. Bertolin; C. Bozza; R. Brugnera; A. Buonaura; S. Buontempo; M. Chernyavskiy; A. Chukanov; L. Consiglio; N. D’Ambrosio; G. De Lellis; M. De Serio; P. del Amo Sanchez; A. Di Crescenzo; D. Di Ferdinando; N. Di Marco; S. Dmitrievsky; M. Dracos; D. Duchesneau; S. Dusini; T. Dzhatdoev; J. Ebert; A. Ereditato; J. Favier; R. A. Fini; F. Fornari; T. Fukuda; G. Galati; A. Garfagnini; V. Gentile; J. Goldberg; Y. Gornushkin; S. Gorbunov; G. Grella; A. M. Guler; C. Gustavino; C. Hagner; T. Hara; T. Hayakawa; A. Hollnagel; B. Hosseini; K. Ishiguro; A. Iuliano; K. Jakovcic; C. Jollet; C. Kamiscioglu; M. Kamiscioglu; S. H. Kim; N. Kitagawa; B. Klicek; K. Kodama; M. Komatsu; U. Kose; I. Kreslo; F. Laudisio; A. Lauria; A. Ljubicic; A. Longhin; P. Loverre; A. Malgin; M. Malenica; G. Mandrioli; T. Matsuo; V. Matveev; N. Mauri; E. Medinaceli; F. Meisel; A. Meregaglia; S. Mikado; M. Miyanishi; F. Mizutani; P. Monacelli; M. C. Montesi; K. Morishima; M. T. Muciaccia; N. Naganawa; T. Naka; M. Nakamura; T. Nakano; K. Niwa; N. Okateva; S. Ogawa; K. Ozaki; A. Paoloni; L. Paparella; B. D. Park; L. Pasqualini; A. Pastore; L. Patrizii; H. Pessard; D. Podgrudkov; N. Polukhina; M. Pozzato; F. Pupilli; M. Roda; T. Roganova; H. Rokujo; G. Rosa; O. Ryazhskaya; O. Sato; A. Schembri; I. Shakiryanova; T. Shchedrina; H. Shibuya; E. Shibayama; T. Shiraishi; S. Simone; C. Sirignano; G. Sirri; A. Sotnikov; M. Spinetti; L. Stanco; N. Starkov; S. M. Stellacci; M. Stipcevic; P. Strolin; S. Takahashi; M. Tenti; F. Terranova; V. Tioukov; S. Vasina; P. Vilain; E. Voevodina; L. Votano; J. L. Vuilleumier; G. Wilquet; C. S. Yoon
Source
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2018, Iss 6, Pp 1-15 (2018)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
1029-8479
Abstract
Abstract The OPERA experiment has discovered the tau neutrino appearance in the CNGS muon neutrino beam, in agreement with the 3 neutrino flavour oscillation hypothesis. The OPERA neutrino interaction target, made of Emulsion Cloud Chambers, was particularly efficient in the reconstruction of electromagnetic showers. Moreover, thanks to the very high granularity of the emulsion films, showers induced by electrons can be distinguished from those induced by π 0s, thus allowing the detection of charged current interactions of electron neutrinos. In this paper the results of the search for electron neutrino events using the full dataset are reported. An improved method for the electron neutrino energy estimation is exploited. Data are compatible with the 3 neutrino flavour mixing model expectations and are used to set limits on the oscillation parameters of the 3+1 neutrino mixing model, in which an additional mass eigenstate m 4 is introduced. At high Δm 412 (≳0.1 eV2), an upper limit on sin2 2θ μe is set to 0.021 at 90% C.L. and Δm 412 ≳ 4 × 10− 3 eV2 is excluded for maximal mixing in appearance mode.