First events from the CNGS neutrino beam detected in the OPERA
  experiment

A Anokhina; A Ariga; A Badertscher; A Bergnoli; A Cazes; A Chukanov; A Di Giovanni; A Ereditato; A Franceschi; A Garfagnini; A Krasnoperov; A Ljubicic; A Longhin; A Malgin; A Marotta; A Nozdrin; A Olchevski; A Paoloni; A Pastore; A Rubbia; A Sadovski; A Schembri; B Carlus; B D Park; B Dulach; B Janutta; B Wonsak; Bahcall J N; C Bozza; C de La Taille; C Di Troia; C Fanin; C Fukushima; C Girerd; C Goellnitz; C Guerin; C Gustavino; C Hagner; C Jollet; C Pistillo; C S Yoon; C Sanelli; C Sirignano; D Autiero; D Di Ferdinando; D Duchesneau; D Frekers; D Kolev; D Orlandi; D Ossetski; D Ryzhikov; Declais Y; E Baussan; E Carrara; F Bersani Greggio; F Dal Corso; F Di Capua; F Grianti; F Juget; F Terranova; G De Lellis; G Felici; G Gaudiot; G Giacomelli; G Grella; G Mandrioli; G Martin-Chassard; G Romano; G Rosa; G Sazhina; G Sirri; G Van Beek; G Wilquet; Guler M (OPERA Collaboration); H Pessard; H Schroeder; H Shibuya; H U Schütz; I G Park; I Kreslo; I Laktineh; I Monteiro; I Tezuka; I Tikhomirov; I Zamboni; J Boucrot; J Damet; J E Campagne; J Ebert; J Favier; J Goldberg; J Janicsko Csathy; J Knuesel; J L Vuilleumier; J Marteau; J P Repellin; J S Song; J Sewing; J Wurtz; K Borer; K Hoshino; K Jakovcic; K Kodama; K Manai; K Morishima; K Niwa; K Pretzl; L Arrabito; L Chaussard; L Consiglio; L Fournier; L Girard; L Meyer; L Patrizii; L Pellegrino; L Raux; L S Esposito; L Scotto Lavina; L Stanco; L Votano; M Ambrosio; M Besnier; M Beyer; M Chernyavsky; M Cozzi; M De Serio; M Dracos; M Giorgini; M Guler; M Hauger; M Hess; M Ieva; M Incurvati; M Kazuyama; M Kimura; M Komatsu; M Messina; M Nakamura; M Natsume; M Pozzato; M Sioli; M Spinetti; M Stipcevic; M T Muciaccia; M Weber; N Agafonova; N Chon-Sen; N D'Ambrosio; N Di Marco; N Naganawa; N Polukhina; N Savvinov; N Starkov; N Ushida; Nakano T; Nakano T; O Giarmana; O Ryazhskaya; O Sato; P Migliozzi; P Monacelli; P Mugnier; P Publichenko; P Strolin; P Tolun; P Vilain; Pontecorvo B; Pontecorvo B; R Acquafredda; R Brugnera; R Ciesielski; R Enikeev; R Gallet; R Spaeti; R Tsenov; R Waldi; R Wurth; R Zimmermann; S Aoki; S Bondil-Blin; S Buontempo; S Dmitrievski; S Dusini; S H Kim; S Lieunard; S Micanovic; S Miyamoto; S Ogawa; S Simone; S Takahashi; T Descombes; T Ferber; T Fukuda; T Hamane; T Hara; T Le Flour; T Nakano; T Napolitano; T Roganova; T Toshito; T Waelchli; U Kose; U Mantello; U Moser; U Ugolino; V A Galkin; V Boyarkin; V Chiarella; V I Galkin; V Matveev; V Pilipenko; V Ryasny; V Saveliev; V Sugonyaev; V Tereschenko; V Tioukov; V Tsarev; V Verguilov; V Yakushev; W Schmidt Parzefall; Y Caffari; Y Déclais; Y Gornoushkin; Y Nonoyama; Y Sato; Y Zaitsev; Z Krumstein

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First events from the CNGS neutrino beam detected in the OPERA experiment

Authors: A Anokhina
A Ariga
A Badertscher
A Bergnoli
A Cazes
A Chukanov
A Di Giovanni
A Ereditato
A Franceschi
A Garfagnini
A Krasnoperov
A Ljubicic
A Longhin
A Malgin
A Marotta
A Nozdrin
A Olchevski
A Paoloni
A Pastore
A Rubbia
A Sadovski
A Schembri
B Carlus
B D Park
B Dulach
B Janutta
B Wonsak
Bahcall J N
C Bozza
C de La Taille
C Di Troia
C Fanin
C Fukushima
C Girerd
C Goellnitz
C Guerin
C Gustavino
C Hagner
C Jollet
C Pistillo
C S Yoon
C Sanelli
C Sirignano
D Autiero
D Di Ferdinando
D Duchesneau
D Frekers
D Kolev
D Orlandi
D Ossetski
D Ryzhikov
Declais Y
E Baussan
E Carrara
F Bersani Greggio
F Dal Corso
F Di Capua
F Grianti
F Juget
F Terranova
G De Lellis
G Felici
G Gaudiot
G Giacomelli
G Grella
G Mandrioli
G Martin-Chassard
G Romano
G Rosa
G Sazhina
G Sirri
G Van Beek
G Wilquet
Guler M (OPERA Collaboration)
H Pessard
H Schroeder
H Shibuya
H U Schütz
I G Park
I Kreslo
I Laktineh
I Monteiro
I Tezuka
I Tikhomirov
I Zamboni
J Boucrot
J Damet
J E Campagne
J Ebert
J Favier
J Goldberg
J Janicsko Csathy
J Knuesel
J L Vuilleumier
J Marteau
J P Repellin
J S Song
J Sewing
J Wurtz
K Borer
K Hoshino
K Jakovcic
K Kodama
K Manai
K Morishima
K Niwa
K Pretzl
L Arrabito
L Chaussard
L Consiglio
L Fournier
L Girard
L Meyer
L Patrizii
L Pellegrino
L Raux
L S Esposito
L Scotto Lavina
L Stanco
L Votano
M Ambrosio
M Besnier
M Beyer
M Chernyavsky
M Cozzi
M De Serio
M Dracos
M Giorgini
M Guler
M Hauger
M Hess
M Ieva
M Incurvati
M Kazuyama
M Kimura
M Komatsu
M Messina
M Nakamura
M Natsume
M Pozzato
M Sioli
M Spinetti
M Stipcevic
M T Muciaccia
M Weber
N Agafonova
N Chon-Sen
N D'Ambrosio
N Di Marco
N Naganawa
N Polukhina
N Savvinov
N Starkov
N Ushida
Nakano T
Nakano T
O Giarmana
O Ryazhskaya
O Sato
P Migliozzi
P Monacelli
P Mugnier
P Publichenko
P Strolin
P Tolun
P Vilain
Pontecorvo B
Pontecorvo B
R Acquafredda
R Brugnera
R Ciesielski
R Enikeev
R Gallet
R Spaeti
R Tsenov
R Waldi
R Wurth
R Zimmermann
S Aoki
S Bondil-Blin
S Buontempo
S Dmitrievski
S Dusini
S H Kim
S Lieunard
S Micanovic
S Miyamoto
S Ogawa
S Simone
S Takahashi
T Descombes
T Ferber
T Fukuda
T Hamane
T Hara
T Le Flour
T Nakano
T Napolitano
T Roganova
T Toshito
T Waelchli
U Kose
U Mantello
U Moser
U Ugolino
V A Galkin
V Boyarkin
V Chiarella
V I Galkin
V Matveev
V Pilipenko
V Ryasny
V Saveliev
V Sugonyaev
V Tereschenko
V Tioukov
V Tsarev
V Verguilov
V Yakushev
W Schmidt Parzefall
Y Caffari
Y Déclais
Y Gornoushkin
Y Nonoyama
Y Sato
Y Zaitsev
Z Krumstein
Publication date: 1 January 2006
Publisher: 'IOP Publishing'
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Abstract

The OPERA neutrino detector at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) was designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in appearance mode, through the study of nu_mu to nu_tau oscillations. The apparatus consists of a lead/emulsion-film target complemented by electronic detectors. It is placed in the high-energy, long-baseline CERN to LNGS beam (CNGS) 730 km away from the neutrino source. In August 2006 a first run with CNGS neutrinos was successfully conducted. A first sample of neutrino events was collected, statistically consistent with the integrated beam intensity. After a brief description of the beam and of the various sub-detectors, we report on the achievement of this milestone, presenting the first data and some analysis results.Comment: Submitted to the New Journal of Physic