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Discovery of νμ → ντ oscillations in the OPERA experiment

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The OPERA experiment was designed to search for νμ → ντ oscillations in appearance mode, i.e. by detecting the τ leptons produced in charge current ντ interactions. The experiment took data from 2008 to 2012 in the CNGS beam. Five observed ντ candidates together with low background 0.25 ± 0.05 allow to assess the discovery of νμ → ντ oscillations in appearance mode with significance larger than 5σ.

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Vasina, S. Discovery of νμ → ντ oscillations in the OPERA experiment. Phys. Part. Nuclei 48, 1032–1034 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779617060624

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