Abstract
The aim of the OPERA experiment is to provide unambiguous evidence for the νμ↔ντ oscillation by looking at the appearance of ντ in a pure νμ beam. The detector is located on the high-energy, long-baseline CERN to LNGS beam (CNGS) 730 km away from the neutrino source. The apparatus consists of a target made of lead/emulsion-films bricks complemented by electronic detectors. The neutrino interaction inside the bricks is tagged using the electronic trackers. In August 2006, a short CNGS run was successfully performed and a first sample of neutrino events was collected. Experiment description and results from the first CNGS run are reported in details.
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