OPERA neutrino oscillation search: status and perspectives

Abstract

OPERA is a long-baseline experiment at the Gran Sasso laboratory (LNGS) designed to search for ${\nu }_{\mu }\to {\nu }_{\tau }$ oscillations in appearance mode. OPERA took data from 2008 to 2012 with the CNGS neutrino beam from CERN. The data analysis is ongoing, with the goal of establishing ${\nu }_{\tau }$ appearance with high significance and improving the sensitivity to the sterile neutrino search in the ${\nu }_{\mu }$ $\to$ ${\nu }_e$ appearance channel. Current results will be presented and perspectives discussed.

arXiv commentTalk presented CIPANP2015. 6 pages, 2 figures