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OPERA experiment
T.Toshito (Nagoya univ. Japan)
for the OPERA collaboration
Apr.21 2002APS2002@Albuquerque
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CNGS beam
Due to CERN financial situation we have one year delay.The beam will start on spring 2006.
L=732km
<Eν>=17GeV
400GeV protons from SPS
νμbeam
Optimized to study ντ appearance @ Δm2=3×10-3eV2 (SK atm. ν)
Construction started on Oct. 2000
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Detector
Hall C
Pb
Emulsion layers
1 mm
ECC(Emulsion Cloud Chamber) to detect decay topology of τ
μspectrometer
ECC bricks+scintillator strips
ν
Gran Sasso
1.8kton
proven by DONUT
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10 c
m
Brick assignment
Plastic scintillator strips (2.6cm width) (x,y)
Pulse height
8cm58emulsion+57Pb plates
10X0
12.5cm8cm
10cm8kg
235k bricks
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Emulsion read-out(Super-Ultra Track Selector)
0.008
0.25
3
60
0.001
0.01
0.1
1
10
100
TS(1994) NTS(1996) UTS(1998) S-UTS(2002)
Scanning Power Roadmapviews/sec(1view=120× 90 m 2)
S-UTS
Scanning speed: 20cm2/h×20 faster than current system (UTS)
Fast CCD camera (3k frames/sec)Continuous movement of the X-Y stageZ movement controlled by piezo actuator
developed at Nagoya Univ.
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~30 Events./day = 30 Bricks
Extraction of the Tagged Brick (every day)
emulsion development
Cosmic ray exposure
(for alignment)
emulsion read-out
Quasi on-line ECC analysis
Brick disassembling
scanning station @ Nagoya Univ.
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“ Long decaysreconstruct kink topology
“ Short decays detect large impact parameter track
Decay search
I.P.>5~20μm
τ→ e 0.9τ→μ 0.5
τ→ e 3.1τ→μ 2.9τ→ h 3.4
ΔΘkink > 20mradexpected signal@ 2.4×10-3eV2
& full mixing
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Electron identification
e
π
Test exp. @ CERN (May2001)
Data
Data
MC
MC
2GeV
4GeV
eff~90%, mis-id prob~5%
Shower detection & χ2 analysis
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Electromagnetic shower
MC Data
Test exp. @ CERN (May2001)
)(E
4.0~
GeV
@ a few GeVEnergy determination by calorimetric method
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Sensitivity
5 years
3 years
exclusion plot in the absence of a signal
1.8kton
1.2×10-3eV2
expected signal11events@ 2.4×10-3eV2
30k νμCC+NC~120ντCC
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Summary
• OPERA ντ appearance experiment at CNGS
sensitive to SK atm. ν region
• S-UTS:
start test operation in this year
• Electron ID and shower analysis in ECC:
required performance is achieved
• Ready for data taking in 2006
one year delay due to CERN financial situation