Discovery of tau neutrino appearance in the CNGS neutrino beam with the OPERA experiment

OPERA Collaboration, N. Agafonova, A. Aleksandrov +139

The OPERA experiment was designed to search for ${\nu }_{\mu }\to {\nu }_{\tau }$ oscillations in appearance mode, i.e. by detecting the $\tau$-leptons produced in charged current ${\nu }_{\tau }$ interacti…