luca stanco – istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare - padova 1 6 maggio 2010 l’esperimento opera...

72
Luca Stanco – ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 1 6 Maggio 2010 L’esperimento OPERA e lo studio dei neutrini del fascio CNGS del CERN Gruppo di Padova: L.Stanco , A.Bertolin, F. Dal Corso, S.Dusini U.Kose, I.Lippi (INFN) R.Brugnera, A.Garfagnini (Università Padova)

Upload: alicia-annabel-manning

Post on 22-Dec-2015

212 views

Category:

Documents


0 download

TRANSCRIPT

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 16 Maggio 2010

Lrsquoesperimento OPERA e lo studio dei neutrini

del fascio CNGS del CERN

Gruppo di Padova LStanco ABertolin F Dal Corso SDusini UKose ILippi (INFN) RBrugnera AGarfagnini (Universitagrave Padova)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 2

The experimental challenge of direct detection of TAUrsquos appearance

bull A touch of physics

bull LongBaseLine experience in Europe (CNGS)

bull ldquoModernrdquo Nuclear Emulsion Technique (OPERA Detector)

bull RUNS from 2006 to 2009 from DAQ to submicrometric measures what we have learned what we are measuring

bull Expectations (in the near future)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 3Luca Stanco - Padova 3

Here is our START and END point

the lepton mixing

In 1998 new history for neutrino begins (as a second life) - Neutrinos oscillate (SK and afterwords SNO K2K hellip) they own masses

Why how which

- Neutrinos mix themselves (CHOOZ and afterwords KamLAND hellip) MNS matrix

41 years after Pontecorvo idea on oscillations in 1957

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 4Luca Stanco - Padova 4

CHOOZ looked for e rarr oscillations (disappearance)

PLB 420 (1998) 397

Mainly after KamLANDhellip

re-interpretation

of Chooz result in terms of

oscillations of Mass eigenstates

Gauge

eigenstatesMass

eigenstates

Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata(1962)

Lepton mixing arranged (and quark mixing in 1963 by Cabibbo)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 5Luca Stanco - Padova 5

Standard parametrization of Mixing matrix via 3 Euler rotations

Message leptons and quarks mix in a similar way

1) Phase violates CP and 2) so phases 12 in Majorana picture3) Matrix unitarity if no sterile neutrino

BUT with 3 BIG questions

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 6Luca Stanco - Padova 6

asympasympasympOscillationsasympasympasymp

SK K2KMinos SNO KamLand YES (they see oscillations)

Chooz NO it did not see anything because S12 asymp 0 (Lasymp 1 km) and 13 too small

ldquoatmosphericrdquo frequency

ldquosolarrdquo frequency

m122=7510-5 eV2

m232=2510-3 eV2

Strumia-Vissani arXivhep-ph0606054v2

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 7Luca Stanco - Padova 7

Searching of disappearance

13 measurements from Reactors suffer from m23 correlations Wonderful KamLAND 2008 Results

S Abe et al Phys Rev Lett 100 221803(2008)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 8Hamburg 24102005 Bjoumlrn Wonsak

LE is crucial

sin2(212)sin2(213)

Example for 3 flavour Oscillation probability

m213

m212

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 9Luca Stanco - Padova 9

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

m223 ~ 25 x 10-3 eV2

m212 ~ 7 x 10-5 eV2

It ldquoprobablyrdquo looks something like this

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 10Luca Stanco - Padova 10

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

But it could look like that

m3

m2

m1

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 11

e

Log m

Even more significant is the absolute scale

10-2 eV

10-1 eV

1 eV

m1

m3

m2

This m1

m3m2

Or that

Ubm stands for QL symmetry or GUT

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 12

Lepton Mixing is weird

Masses Mixing

What does all that means

Is there any meaning at all

(more than those for cabalistes)

eg Quark-Lepton Complementarityl

12+q12asymp4 and l

23+q23asymp4

UMNS=UbmU+CKM (QLCl) or UMNS=U+

CKM Ubm (QLC)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 13

Howeverhellip What is presently known of MNS matrix

sin223=102plusmn005tan22=047plusmn06sin223 from fits (or lt015m2

23=2510-

3eV2 90 CL)m3)2=24plusmn01310-3eV2

m3)2=759plusmn02110-5 eV2

e- triangle

YFarzan in 07104947 (ISS report)

Rather poor resolutions stillhellip

Look at unitarities of Kobayashi-Maskawa (from PDG06)

Message leptons mixing matrix poorly known hellip

and sin13=015

13lt1140

13=860

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 14

Then what do we have to measure

the BIG items can be studied with LBL experiments

Three angles (12 13 23)

Two mass differences (m212 m2

23) The sign of the mass difference m2 (plusmnm2

23) One CP phase () The source of atmospheric oscillations (detect

appearan)) The absolute mass scale Are neutrino Dirac or Majorana particles (or both)

Are there more - sterile - neutrinos

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 2

The experimental challenge of direct detection of TAUrsquos appearance

bull A touch of physics

bull LongBaseLine experience in Europe (CNGS)

bull ldquoModernrdquo Nuclear Emulsion Technique (OPERA Detector)

bull RUNS from 2006 to 2009 from DAQ to submicrometric measures what we have learned what we are measuring

bull Expectations (in the near future)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 3Luca Stanco - Padova 3

Here is our START and END point

the lepton mixing

In 1998 new history for neutrino begins (as a second life) - Neutrinos oscillate (SK and afterwords SNO K2K hellip) they own masses

Why how which

- Neutrinos mix themselves (CHOOZ and afterwords KamLAND hellip) MNS matrix

41 years after Pontecorvo idea on oscillations in 1957

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 4Luca Stanco - Padova 4

CHOOZ looked for e rarr oscillations (disappearance)

PLB 420 (1998) 397

Mainly after KamLANDhellip

re-interpretation

of Chooz result in terms of

oscillations of Mass eigenstates

Gauge

eigenstatesMass

eigenstates

Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata(1962)

Lepton mixing arranged (and quark mixing in 1963 by Cabibbo)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 5Luca Stanco - Padova 5

Standard parametrization of Mixing matrix via 3 Euler rotations

Message leptons and quarks mix in a similar way

1) Phase violates CP and 2) so phases 12 in Majorana picture3) Matrix unitarity if no sterile neutrino

BUT with 3 BIG questions

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 6Luca Stanco - Padova 6

asympasympasympOscillationsasympasympasymp

SK K2KMinos SNO KamLand YES (they see oscillations)

Chooz NO it did not see anything because S12 asymp 0 (Lasymp 1 km) and 13 too small

ldquoatmosphericrdquo frequency

ldquosolarrdquo frequency

m122=7510-5 eV2

m232=2510-3 eV2

Strumia-Vissani arXivhep-ph0606054v2

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 7Luca Stanco - Padova 7

Searching of disappearance

13 measurements from Reactors suffer from m23 correlations Wonderful KamLAND 2008 Results

S Abe et al Phys Rev Lett 100 221803(2008)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 8Hamburg 24102005 Bjoumlrn Wonsak

LE is crucial

sin2(212)sin2(213)

Example for 3 flavour Oscillation probability

m213

m212

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 9Luca Stanco - Padova 9

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

m223 ~ 25 x 10-3 eV2

m212 ~ 7 x 10-5 eV2

It ldquoprobablyrdquo looks something like this

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 10Luca Stanco - Padova 10

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

But it could look like that

m3

m2

m1

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 11

e

Log m

Even more significant is the absolute scale

10-2 eV

10-1 eV

1 eV

m1

m3

m2

This m1

m3m2

Or that

Ubm stands for QL symmetry or GUT

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 12

Lepton Mixing is weird

Masses Mixing

What does all that means

Is there any meaning at all

(more than those for cabalistes)

eg Quark-Lepton Complementarityl

12+q12asymp4 and l

23+q23asymp4

UMNS=UbmU+CKM (QLCl) or UMNS=U+

CKM Ubm (QLC)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 13

Howeverhellip What is presently known of MNS matrix

sin223=102plusmn005tan22=047plusmn06sin223 from fits (or lt015m2

23=2510-

3eV2 90 CL)m3)2=24plusmn01310-3eV2

m3)2=759plusmn02110-5 eV2

e- triangle

YFarzan in 07104947 (ISS report)

Rather poor resolutions stillhellip

Look at unitarities of Kobayashi-Maskawa (from PDG06)

Message leptons mixing matrix poorly known hellip

and sin13=015

13lt1140

13=860

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 14

Then what do we have to measure

the BIG items can be studied with LBL experiments

Three angles (12 13 23)

Two mass differences (m212 m2

23) The sign of the mass difference m2 (plusmnm2

23) One CP phase () The source of atmospheric oscillations (detect

appearan)) The absolute mass scale Are neutrino Dirac or Majorana particles (or both)

Are there more - sterile - neutrinos

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 3Luca Stanco - Padova 3

Here is our START and END point

the lepton mixing

In 1998 new history for neutrino begins (as a second life) - Neutrinos oscillate (SK and afterwords SNO K2K hellip) they own masses

Why how which

- Neutrinos mix themselves (CHOOZ and afterwords KamLAND hellip) MNS matrix

41 years after Pontecorvo idea on oscillations in 1957

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 4Luca Stanco - Padova 4

CHOOZ looked for e rarr oscillations (disappearance)

PLB 420 (1998) 397

Mainly after KamLANDhellip

re-interpretation

of Chooz result in terms of

oscillations of Mass eigenstates

Gauge

eigenstatesMass

eigenstates

Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata(1962)

Lepton mixing arranged (and quark mixing in 1963 by Cabibbo)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 5Luca Stanco - Padova 5

Standard parametrization of Mixing matrix via 3 Euler rotations

Message leptons and quarks mix in a similar way

1) Phase violates CP and 2) so phases 12 in Majorana picture3) Matrix unitarity if no sterile neutrino

BUT with 3 BIG questions

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 6Luca Stanco - Padova 6

asympasympasympOscillationsasympasympasymp

SK K2KMinos SNO KamLand YES (they see oscillations)

Chooz NO it did not see anything because S12 asymp 0 (Lasymp 1 km) and 13 too small

ldquoatmosphericrdquo frequency

ldquosolarrdquo frequency

m122=7510-5 eV2

m232=2510-3 eV2

Strumia-Vissani arXivhep-ph0606054v2

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 7Luca Stanco - Padova 7

Searching of disappearance

13 measurements from Reactors suffer from m23 correlations Wonderful KamLAND 2008 Results

S Abe et al Phys Rev Lett 100 221803(2008)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 8Hamburg 24102005 Bjoumlrn Wonsak

LE is crucial

sin2(212)sin2(213)

Example for 3 flavour Oscillation probability

m213

m212

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 9Luca Stanco - Padova 9

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

m223 ~ 25 x 10-3 eV2

m212 ~ 7 x 10-5 eV2

It ldquoprobablyrdquo looks something like this

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 10Luca Stanco - Padova 10

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

But it could look like that

m3

m2

m1

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 11

e

Log m

Even more significant is the absolute scale

10-2 eV

10-1 eV

1 eV

m1

m3

m2

This m1

m3m2

Or that

Ubm stands for QL symmetry or GUT

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 12

Lepton Mixing is weird

Masses Mixing

What does all that means

Is there any meaning at all

(more than those for cabalistes)

eg Quark-Lepton Complementarityl

12+q12asymp4 and l

23+q23asymp4

UMNS=UbmU+CKM (QLCl) or UMNS=U+

CKM Ubm (QLC)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 13

Howeverhellip What is presently known of MNS matrix

sin223=102plusmn005tan22=047plusmn06sin223 from fits (or lt015m2

23=2510-

3eV2 90 CL)m3)2=24plusmn01310-3eV2

m3)2=759plusmn02110-5 eV2

e- triangle

YFarzan in 07104947 (ISS report)

Rather poor resolutions stillhellip

Look at unitarities of Kobayashi-Maskawa (from PDG06)

Message leptons mixing matrix poorly known hellip

and sin13=015

13lt1140

13=860

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 14

Then what do we have to measure

the BIG items can be studied with LBL experiments

Three angles (12 13 23)

Two mass differences (m212 m2

23) The sign of the mass difference m2 (plusmnm2

23) One CP phase () The source of atmospheric oscillations (detect

appearan)) The absolute mass scale Are neutrino Dirac or Majorana particles (or both)

Are there more - sterile - neutrinos

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 4Luca Stanco - Padova 4

CHOOZ looked for e rarr oscillations (disappearance)

PLB 420 (1998) 397

Mainly after KamLANDhellip

re-interpretation

of Chooz result in terms of

oscillations of Mass eigenstates

Gauge

eigenstatesMass

eigenstates

Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata(1962)

Lepton mixing arranged (and quark mixing in 1963 by Cabibbo)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 5Luca Stanco - Padova 5

Standard parametrization of Mixing matrix via 3 Euler rotations

Message leptons and quarks mix in a similar way

1) Phase violates CP and 2) so phases 12 in Majorana picture3) Matrix unitarity if no sterile neutrino

BUT with 3 BIG questions

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 6Luca Stanco - Padova 6

asympasympasympOscillationsasympasympasymp

SK K2KMinos SNO KamLand YES (they see oscillations)

Chooz NO it did not see anything because S12 asymp 0 (Lasymp 1 km) and 13 too small

ldquoatmosphericrdquo frequency

ldquosolarrdquo frequency

m122=7510-5 eV2

m232=2510-3 eV2

Strumia-Vissani arXivhep-ph0606054v2

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 7Luca Stanco - Padova 7

Searching of disappearance

13 measurements from Reactors suffer from m23 correlations Wonderful KamLAND 2008 Results

S Abe et al Phys Rev Lett 100 221803(2008)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 8Hamburg 24102005 Bjoumlrn Wonsak

LE is crucial

sin2(212)sin2(213)

Example for 3 flavour Oscillation probability

m213

m212

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 9Luca Stanco - Padova 9

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

m223 ~ 25 x 10-3 eV2

m212 ~ 7 x 10-5 eV2

It ldquoprobablyrdquo looks something like this

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 10Luca Stanco - Padova 10

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

But it could look like that

m3

m2

m1

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 11

e

Log m

Even more significant is the absolute scale

10-2 eV

10-1 eV

1 eV

m1

m3

m2

This m1

m3m2

Or that

Ubm stands for QL symmetry or GUT

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 12

Lepton Mixing is weird

Masses Mixing

What does all that means

Is there any meaning at all

(more than those for cabalistes)

eg Quark-Lepton Complementarityl

12+q12asymp4 and l

23+q23asymp4

UMNS=UbmU+CKM (QLCl) or UMNS=U+

CKM Ubm (QLC)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 13

Howeverhellip What is presently known of MNS matrix

sin223=102plusmn005tan22=047plusmn06sin223 from fits (or lt015m2

23=2510-

3eV2 90 CL)m3)2=24plusmn01310-3eV2

m3)2=759plusmn02110-5 eV2

e- triangle

YFarzan in 07104947 (ISS report)

Rather poor resolutions stillhellip

Look at unitarities of Kobayashi-Maskawa (from PDG06)

Message leptons mixing matrix poorly known hellip

and sin13=015

13lt1140

13=860

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 14

Then what do we have to measure

the BIG items can be studied with LBL experiments

Three angles (12 13 23)

Two mass differences (m212 m2

23) The sign of the mass difference m2 (plusmnm2

23) One CP phase () The source of atmospheric oscillations (detect

appearan)) The absolute mass scale Are neutrino Dirac or Majorana particles (or both)

Are there more - sterile - neutrinos

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 5Luca Stanco - Padova 5

Standard parametrization of Mixing matrix via 3 Euler rotations

Message leptons and quarks mix in a similar way

1) Phase violates CP and 2) so phases 12 in Majorana picture3) Matrix unitarity if no sterile neutrino

BUT with 3 BIG questions

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 6Luca Stanco - Padova 6

asympasympasympOscillationsasympasympasymp

SK K2KMinos SNO KamLand YES (they see oscillations)

Chooz NO it did not see anything because S12 asymp 0 (Lasymp 1 km) and 13 too small

ldquoatmosphericrdquo frequency

ldquosolarrdquo frequency

m122=7510-5 eV2

m232=2510-3 eV2

Strumia-Vissani arXivhep-ph0606054v2

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 7Luca Stanco - Padova 7

Searching of disappearance

13 measurements from Reactors suffer from m23 correlations Wonderful KamLAND 2008 Results

S Abe et al Phys Rev Lett 100 221803(2008)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 8Hamburg 24102005 Bjoumlrn Wonsak

LE is crucial

sin2(212)sin2(213)

Example for 3 flavour Oscillation probability

m213

m212

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 9Luca Stanco - Padova 9

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

m223 ~ 25 x 10-3 eV2

m212 ~ 7 x 10-5 eV2

It ldquoprobablyrdquo looks something like this

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 10Luca Stanco - Padova 10

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

But it could look like that

m3

m2

m1

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 11

e

Log m

Even more significant is the absolute scale

10-2 eV

10-1 eV

1 eV

m1

m3

m2

This m1

m3m2

Or that

Ubm stands for QL symmetry or GUT

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 12

Lepton Mixing is weird

Masses Mixing

What does all that means

Is there any meaning at all

(more than those for cabalistes)

eg Quark-Lepton Complementarityl

12+q12asymp4 and l

23+q23asymp4

UMNS=UbmU+CKM (QLCl) or UMNS=U+

CKM Ubm (QLC)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 13

Howeverhellip What is presently known of MNS matrix

sin223=102plusmn005tan22=047plusmn06sin223 from fits (or lt015m2

23=2510-

3eV2 90 CL)m3)2=24plusmn01310-3eV2

m3)2=759plusmn02110-5 eV2

e- triangle

YFarzan in 07104947 (ISS report)

Rather poor resolutions stillhellip

Look at unitarities of Kobayashi-Maskawa (from PDG06)

Message leptons mixing matrix poorly known hellip

and sin13=015

13lt1140

13=860

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 14

Then what do we have to measure

the BIG items can be studied with LBL experiments

Three angles (12 13 23)

Two mass differences (m212 m2

23) The sign of the mass difference m2 (plusmnm2

23) One CP phase () The source of atmospheric oscillations (detect

appearan)) The absolute mass scale Are neutrino Dirac or Majorana particles (or both)

Are there more - sterile - neutrinos

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 6Luca Stanco - Padova 6

asympasympasympOscillationsasympasympasymp

SK K2KMinos SNO KamLand YES (they see oscillations)

Chooz NO it did not see anything because S12 asymp 0 (Lasymp 1 km) and 13 too small

ldquoatmosphericrdquo frequency

ldquosolarrdquo frequency

m122=7510-5 eV2

m232=2510-3 eV2

Strumia-Vissani arXivhep-ph0606054v2

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 7Luca Stanco - Padova 7

Searching of disappearance

13 measurements from Reactors suffer from m23 correlations Wonderful KamLAND 2008 Results

S Abe et al Phys Rev Lett 100 221803(2008)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 8Hamburg 24102005 Bjoumlrn Wonsak

LE is crucial

sin2(212)sin2(213)

Example for 3 flavour Oscillation probability

m213

m212

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 9Luca Stanco - Padova 9

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

m223 ~ 25 x 10-3 eV2

m212 ~ 7 x 10-5 eV2

It ldquoprobablyrdquo looks something like this

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 10Luca Stanco - Padova 10

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

But it could look like that

m3

m2

m1

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 11

e

Log m

Even more significant is the absolute scale

10-2 eV

10-1 eV

1 eV

m1

m3

m2

This m1

m3m2

Or that

Ubm stands for QL symmetry or GUT

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 12

Lepton Mixing is weird

Masses Mixing

What does all that means

Is there any meaning at all

(more than those for cabalistes)

eg Quark-Lepton Complementarityl

12+q12asymp4 and l

23+q23asymp4

UMNS=UbmU+CKM (QLCl) or UMNS=U+

CKM Ubm (QLC)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 13

Howeverhellip What is presently known of MNS matrix

sin223=102plusmn005tan22=047plusmn06sin223 from fits (or lt015m2

23=2510-

3eV2 90 CL)m3)2=24plusmn01310-3eV2

m3)2=759plusmn02110-5 eV2

e- triangle

YFarzan in 07104947 (ISS report)

Rather poor resolutions stillhellip

Look at unitarities of Kobayashi-Maskawa (from PDG06)

Message leptons mixing matrix poorly known hellip

and sin13=015

13lt1140

13=860

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 14

Then what do we have to measure

the BIG items can be studied with LBL experiments

Three angles (12 13 23)

Two mass differences (m212 m2

23) The sign of the mass difference m2 (plusmnm2

23) One CP phase () The source of atmospheric oscillations (detect

appearan)) The absolute mass scale Are neutrino Dirac or Majorana particles (or both)

Are there more - sterile - neutrinos

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 7Luca Stanco - Padova 7

Searching of disappearance

13 measurements from Reactors suffer from m23 correlations Wonderful KamLAND 2008 Results

S Abe et al Phys Rev Lett 100 221803(2008)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 8Hamburg 24102005 Bjoumlrn Wonsak

LE is crucial

sin2(212)sin2(213)

Example for 3 flavour Oscillation probability

m213

m212

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 9Luca Stanco - Padova 9

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

m223 ~ 25 x 10-3 eV2

m212 ~ 7 x 10-5 eV2

It ldquoprobablyrdquo looks something like this

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 10Luca Stanco - Padova 10

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

But it could look like that

m3

m2

m1

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 11

e

Log m

Even more significant is the absolute scale

10-2 eV

10-1 eV

1 eV

m1

m3

m2

This m1

m3m2

Or that

Ubm stands for QL symmetry or GUT

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 12

Lepton Mixing is weird

Masses Mixing

What does all that means

Is there any meaning at all

(more than those for cabalistes)

eg Quark-Lepton Complementarityl

12+q12asymp4 and l

23+q23asymp4

UMNS=UbmU+CKM (QLCl) or UMNS=U+

CKM Ubm (QLC)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 13

Howeverhellip What is presently known of MNS matrix

sin223=102plusmn005tan22=047plusmn06sin223 from fits (or lt015m2

23=2510-

3eV2 90 CL)m3)2=24plusmn01310-3eV2

m3)2=759plusmn02110-5 eV2

e- triangle

YFarzan in 07104947 (ISS report)

Rather poor resolutions stillhellip

Look at unitarities of Kobayashi-Maskawa (from PDG06)

Message leptons mixing matrix poorly known hellip

and sin13=015

13lt1140

13=860

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 14

Then what do we have to measure

the BIG items can be studied with LBL experiments

Three angles (12 13 23)

Two mass differences (m212 m2

23) The sign of the mass difference m2 (plusmnm2

23) One CP phase () The source of atmospheric oscillations (detect

appearan)) The absolute mass scale Are neutrino Dirac or Majorana particles (or both)

Are there more - sterile - neutrinos

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 8Hamburg 24102005 Bjoumlrn Wonsak

LE is crucial

sin2(212)sin2(213)

Example for 3 flavour Oscillation probability

m213

m212

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 9Luca Stanco - Padova 9

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

m223 ~ 25 x 10-3 eV2

m212 ~ 7 x 10-5 eV2

It ldquoprobablyrdquo looks something like this

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 10Luca Stanco - Padova 10

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

But it could look like that

m3

m2

m1

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 11

e

Log m

Even more significant is the absolute scale

10-2 eV

10-1 eV

1 eV

m1

m3

m2

This m1

m3m2

Or that

Ubm stands for QL symmetry or GUT

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 12

Lepton Mixing is weird

Masses Mixing

What does all that means

Is there any meaning at all

(more than those for cabalistes)

eg Quark-Lepton Complementarityl

12+q12asymp4 and l

23+q23asymp4

UMNS=UbmU+CKM (QLCl) or UMNS=U+

CKM Ubm (QLC)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 13

Howeverhellip What is presently known of MNS matrix

sin223=102plusmn005tan22=047plusmn06sin223 from fits (or lt015m2

23=2510-

3eV2 90 CL)m3)2=24plusmn01310-3eV2

m3)2=759plusmn02110-5 eV2

e- triangle

YFarzan in 07104947 (ISS report)

Rather poor resolutions stillhellip

Look at unitarities of Kobayashi-Maskawa (from PDG06)

Message leptons mixing matrix poorly known hellip

and sin13=015

13lt1140

13=860

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 14

Then what do we have to measure

the BIG items can be studied with LBL experiments

Three angles (12 13 23)

Two mass differences (m212 m2

23) The sign of the mass difference m2 (plusmnm2

23) One CP phase () The source of atmospheric oscillations (detect

appearan)) The absolute mass scale Are neutrino Dirac or Majorana particles (or both)

Are there more - sterile - neutrinos

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 9Luca Stanco - Padova 9

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

m223 ~ 25 x 10-3 eV2

m212 ~ 7 x 10-5 eV2

It ldquoprobablyrdquo looks something like this

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 10Luca Stanco - Padova 10

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

But it could look like that

m3

m2

m1

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 11

e

Log m

Even more significant is the absolute scale

10-2 eV

10-1 eV

1 eV

m1

m3

m2

This m1

m3m2

Or that

Ubm stands for QL symmetry or GUT

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 12

Lepton Mixing is weird

Masses Mixing

What does all that means

Is there any meaning at all

(more than those for cabalistes)

eg Quark-Lepton Complementarityl

12+q12asymp4 and l

23+q23asymp4

UMNS=UbmU+CKM (QLCl) or UMNS=U+

CKM Ubm (QLC)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 13

Howeverhellip What is presently known of MNS matrix

sin223=102plusmn005tan22=047plusmn06sin223 from fits (or lt015m2

23=2510-

3eV2 90 CL)m3)2=24plusmn01310-3eV2

m3)2=759plusmn02110-5 eV2

e- triangle

YFarzan in 07104947 (ISS report)

Rather poor resolutions stillhellip

Look at unitarities of Kobayashi-Maskawa (from PDG06)

Message leptons mixing matrix poorly known hellip

and sin13=015

13lt1140

13=860

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 14

Then what do we have to measure

the BIG items can be studied with LBL experiments

Three angles (12 13 23)

Two mass differences (m212 m2

23) The sign of the mass difference m2 (plusmnm2

23) One CP phase () The source of atmospheric oscillations (detect

appearan)) The absolute mass scale Are neutrino Dirac or Majorana particles (or both)

Are there more - sterile - neutrinos

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 10Luca Stanco - Padova 10

e

Log m2

m1

m3

m2

But it could look like that

m3

m2

m1

What is the pattern of neutrino masses

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 11

e

Log m

Even more significant is the absolute scale

10-2 eV

10-1 eV

1 eV

m1

m3

m2

This m1

m3m2

Or that

Ubm stands for QL symmetry or GUT

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 12

Lepton Mixing is weird

Masses Mixing

What does all that means

Is there any meaning at all

(more than those for cabalistes)

eg Quark-Lepton Complementarityl

12+q12asymp4 and l

23+q23asymp4

UMNS=UbmU+CKM (QLCl) or UMNS=U+

CKM Ubm (QLC)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 13

Howeverhellip What is presently known of MNS matrix

sin223=102plusmn005tan22=047plusmn06sin223 from fits (or lt015m2

23=2510-

3eV2 90 CL)m3)2=24plusmn01310-3eV2

m3)2=759plusmn02110-5 eV2

e- triangle

YFarzan in 07104947 (ISS report)

Rather poor resolutions stillhellip

Look at unitarities of Kobayashi-Maskawa (from PDG06)

Message leptons mixing matrix poorly known hellip

and sin13=015

13lt1140

13=860

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 14

Then what do we have to measure

the BIG items can be studied with LBL experiments

Three angles (12 13 23)

Two mass differences (m212 m2

23) The sign of the mass difference m2 (plusmnm2

23) One CP phase () The source of atmospheric oscillations (detect

appearan)) The absolute mass scale Are neutrino Dirac or Majorana particles (or both)

Are there more - sterile - neutrinos

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 11

e

Log m

Even more significant is the absolute scale

10-2 eV

10-1 eV

1 eV

m1

m3

m2

This m1

m3m2

Or that

Ubm stands for QL symmetry or GUT

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 12

Lepton Mixing is weird

Masses Mixing

What does all that means

Is there any meaning at all

(more than those for cabalistes)

eg Quark-Lepton Complementarityl

12+q12asymp4 and l

23+q23asymp4

UMNS=UbmU+CKM (QLCl) or UMNS=U+

CKM Ubm (QLC)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 13

Howeverhellip What is presently known of MNS matrix

sin223=102plusmn005tan22=047plusmn06sin223 from fits (or lt015m2

23=2510-

3eV2 90 CL)m3)2=24plusmn01310-3eV2

m3)2=759plusmn02110-5 eV2

e- triangle

YFarzan in 07104947 (ISS report)

Rather poor resolutions stillhellip

Look at unitarities of Kobayashi-Maskawa (from PDG06)

Message leptons mixing matrix poorly known hellip

and sin13=015

13lt1140

13=860

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 14

Then what do we have to measure

the BIG items can be studied with LBL experiments

Three angles (12 13 23)

Two mass differences (m212 m2

23) The sign of the mass difference m2 (plusmnm2

23) One CP phase () The source of atmospheric oscillations (detect

appearan)) The absolute mass scale Are neutrino Dirac or Majorana particles (or both)

Are there more - sterile - neutrinos

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Ubm stands for QL symmetry or GUT

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 12

Lepton Mixing is weird

Masses Mixing

What does all that means

Is there any meaning at all

(more than those for cabalistes)

eg Quark-Lepton Complementarityl

12+q12asymp4 and l

23+q23asymp4

UMNS=UbmU+CKM (QLCl) or UMNS=U+

CKM Ubm (QLC)

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 13

Howeverhellip What is presently known of MNS matrix

sin223=102plusmn005tan22=047plusmn06sin223 from fits (or lt015m2

23=2510-

3eV2 90 CL)m3)2=24plusmn01310-3eV2

m3)2=759plusmn02110-5 eV2

e- triangle

YFarzan in 07104947 (ISS report)

Rather poor resolutions stillhellip

Look at unitarities of Kobayashi-Maskawa (from PDG06)

Message leptons mixing matrix poorly known hellip

and sin13=015

13lt1140

13=860

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 14

Then what do we have to measure

the BIG items can be studied with LBL experiments

Three angles (12 13 23)

Two mass differences (m212 m2

23) The sign of the mass difference m2 (plusmnm2

23) One CP phase () The source of atmospheric oscillations (detect

appearan)) The absolute mass scale Are neutrino Dirac or Majorana particles (or both)

Are there more - sterile - neutrinos

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 13

Howeverhellip What is presently known of MNS matrix

sin223=102plusmn005tan22=047plusmn06sin223 from fits (or lt015m2

23=2510-

3eV2 90 CL)m3)2=24plusmn01310-3eV2

m3)2=759plusmn02110-5 eV2

e- triangle

YFarzan in 07104947 (ISS report)

Rather poor resolutions stillhellip

Look at unitarities of Kobayashi-Maskawa (from PDG06)

Message leptons mixing matrix poorly known hellip

and sin13=015

13lt1140

13=860

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 14

Then what do we have to measure

the BIG items can be studied with LBL experiments

Three angles (12 13 23)

Two mass differences (m212 m2

23) The sign of the mass difference m2 (plusmnm2

23) One CP phase () The source of atmospheric oscillations (detect

appearan)) The absolute mass scale Are neutrino Dirac or Majorana particles (or both)

Are there more - sterile - neutrinos

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 14

Then what do we have to measure

the BIG items can be studied with LBL experiments

Three angles (12 13 23)

Two mass differences (m212 m2

23) The sign of the mass difference m2 (plusmnm2

23) One CP phase () The source of atmospheric oscillations (detect

appearan)) The absolute mass scale Are neutrino Dirac or Majorana particles (or both)

Are there more - sterile - neutrinos

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova nu oscillations - BEYOND 2010 15

WBuchmullerat EPS09

Summary talk

Status of the ldquoStandard Modelsrdquo at this EPS conference

bull Particles wealth of data all consistent with the SM

bull Astrophysics no phenomena which are inconsistent with conventional physics

bull Cosmology remarkably precise data all consistent with cosmological SM

Are there hints for new physics and if yes at which energy scaleRight-handed neutrinos have been ldquofoundrdquo

no exotics have been found

Message be prepared to the unexpected

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 16

WHAT IS STILL MISSING IS A DIRECT ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF FLAVOUR CHANGING FROM FLAVOUR A TO FLAVOUR B

and in anycasehellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 17

History of the CNGS projectHistory of the CNGS project

1 1979 Prof A Zichichi presents his vision to the ldquoCommissione Lavori Pubblicirdquo

2 1992 An internal report describes ldquoCERN Beams for Long Baseline Neutrino Experimentsrdquo

3 1997 INFN-CERN Technical Working Group chaired by KHuebner starts preparing the CNGS Technical Design Report

4 1999 December CERN council approves the CNGS project a convention is signed between CERN and INFN ldquoconcerning the CNGS facilityrdquo

5 2000 October start of CNGS civil construction

6 2004 June ceremony to mark the end of CNGS civil construction

7 2005 November end of installation of equipment start of hardware commissioning

8 2006 July 10 start CNGS commissioning with beam first neutrinos at Gran Sasso

9 2006 August 18 CNGS beam handed over to SPS operations team neutrinos measured in OPERA under nominal flux

10 2007 Very short RUN due a major problem in radiation shielding

11 2008 Good RUN from CNGS 18 1019 pot (protons on target)

12 2009 Quite good RUN from CNGS 35 1019

13 2010 Very good RUN expected up to nominal 45 1019 pot

CNGS Cern Neutrinosrsquo to Gran Sasso

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 18

CNGS budgetCNGS budget

- project budget total 776 MCHF(incl industrial services FSU etc)

of which special contributions cash 543 MCHF

(Italy Belgium Spain Switzerland)special contributions ldquoin-kindrdquo 68 MCHF(France Germany)

- CERN manpower 105 FTE

CNGS project completed within the budget and schedule

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 19

350

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 20

Scheme for the production of neutrinosScheme for the production of neutrinos

vacuum

800 m 100 m 1000m 67 m

p + C (interactions) K () (decay in flight)

Helium tanks

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 21

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 22Proton beam ndash end of vertical deflection

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 23

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 24

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

CNGS (CERN Neutrino To Gran Sasso) beam

25

ltE ()gt 17 GeV

L 730 km

LE 43 KmGeV

(e + e) CC 087

CC 21

prompt negligible

bull Protons from SPS 400 GeVcbull Cycle length 6 sbull 2 extractions separated by 50 msbull Pulse length 105 sbull Beam intensity 24 1013

protonextrbull Expected performance 45 1019

potyearbullNominal beam performance (45x1019 poty) bullTarget mass of 13 kton

Expected number of interactions in 5 years running ~ 23600 CC+NC ~ 170 e + e CC ~ 115 CC (m2 = 25 x 10-3 eV2)

25

Flux optimized to produce the max number of CC

After efficiencies 10 tau decays are expected to be observed with lt1 background events

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 26

CNGS Run 2008 18 June - 03 Nov 2008

0

2E+18

4E+18

6E+18

8E+18

1E+19

12E+19

14E+19

16E+19

18E+19

18-J

un

28-J

un

8-Ju

l

18-J

ul

28-J

ul

7-A

ug

17-A

ug

27-A

ug

6-S

ep

16-S

ep

26-S

ep

6-O

ct

16-O

ct

26-O

ct

5-N

ov

inte

gra

ted

po

t

Total 1781019 pot

18kV cable repair

MD

PS magnet exchange septum bakeout

MD

SPS timing faultvacuum leak amp magnet exchange

CNGS maintenance

SPS extraction line Magnet ground fault MD

CNGS maintenance

Nominal 45 1019 potyr for 5 years

Beam to CNGSLHC FT MD

Beam to CNGSLHC FT

Beam to CNGS MD

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 27

CNGS Run 2009 1 June - end Nov 2009

27

Unix time

Unix time

Potextraction

Potextraction

2E13 potextraction

2E13 potextraction

Extraction 1

Extraction 2

Saturday 30509PS vacuum leak106 0000 116 107

MDMonday 156 800Friday 196 800

MD + Septum water leakTuesday 306 800Friday 37 715

MD 127 107167 800

MD 108 00138 1724

MD 317

LINAC2 vacuum leak

PS magnet short

MD 149-189MD 229-239

MD 268

PS septum210-1110

CNGS ventilation 289

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 28

Average efficiency 7026

Peak efficiency 78

2009

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

29

CNGS beam performance

2008 run 2009 run

total 1782E19 pot

3522E19 pot

On-time events 10122 21428

candidate in the target

1698 3693

Pot collected during the 2009 CNGS run

Foreseen stopsUnforeseen stops

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 30

OPERAOscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

Dopo il fascio di NEUTRINIhellipil rivelatore per osservarli

- 1300 tonnellate di piombo ldquoosservaterdquo con emulsioni fotografiche (=1 m) e triggerate con rivelatori di scintillazione (=1 cm)

- 2000 tonnellate di ferro ldquoosservaterdquo con rivelatori elettronici (=1 mm) per complemento della misura

Struttura modulare doppia

ICARUS next talkhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 31

33 INSTITUTIONS ~170 PHYSICISTS

IPNL IRES LAPP

INR ITEPJINR Obninsk

Zagreb

LrsquoAquila Bari Bologna Napoli Padova Roma

Salerno LNF LNGS

BernNeuchatel

Zurich

Brussels

Hamburg MuumlnsterRostock

Sofia

Aichi TohoKobe NagoyaUtsunomiya

Technion Haifa

METU Ankara

IHEP BeijingShandong

Gyeongsang University

OPERA is an International Collaboration

Circa 60 Meuro

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 32

What is the goal of OPERA

Once the oscillations established a large international program has been set for checking all parameters of the flavor transitions

bull Japan ( KEK to Super-Kamiokande) US ( Fermi Lab to MINOS )

μ disappearance

bull Europe ( CERN to Gran Sasso )

τ appearance OPERA

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 33

Detection of the appearance signal

Two conflicting requirements Large mass low Xsection High granularity

signal selection background rejection

Target1300 tons 5 years running

bull 24 000 neutrino interactionsbull ~170 interactionsbull ~10 identifiedbull lt 1 event of background

Toplogy selection

Kink signature

The challenge is to identify interactions from interactions

-

Decay ldquokinkrdquo

-

~1 mm

oscillation

-

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 34

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 35

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 36

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

The OPERA basic unit the laquo Brick raquo Based on the concept of the Emulsion Cloud Chamber - 57 emulsion films + 56 Pb plates - a box with a removable pair of films (Changeable Sheets) (interface to the electronic detectors) High space resolution in a large mass detectors with a completely modular scheme

Bricks are complete stand-alone detectors

Measurement of hadrons momenta by multiple scattering

125cm

102cm

Neutrino interaction vertex and kink topology reconstruction

dEdx pionmuon separation at low energy (at end of range)Electron identification and measurement of the energy of electrons and gammas(electromagnetic calorimetry)

Tracks reconstruction accuracy in emulsions x 03 microm 2 mrad

37

beam

brick

CS

Emulsion film

Lead plates

Emulsion film

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 38

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 39

What the microscope CCD sees in one film

170

m

250 m

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 40

Structure of the OPERA Experiment

29 target planes supermodule (in total 155000 bricks 1350 tons)

TargetsMagnetic Spectrometers

Proposal July 2000 installation at LNGS started in May 2003First observation of CNGS beam neutrinos August 18th 2006

SM1 SM2

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 41

Veto plane (RPC)High precision tracker Instrumented

dipole magnet 6 4-fold layers of 153 T drift tubes 22 XY planes of RPC in both arms

Muon spectrometer (8times10 m2)

SM1 SM2

068 kton 068 kton

Target and Target Tracker (67m)2

Target 77500 bricks 29 walls

Target tracker 31 XY doublets of 256 scintillator strips + WLS fibres + multi-anodes PMT for

bull Brick selectionbull Muon tracks reconstruction

The OPERA detector

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 42

The completion of the OPERA construction()

OPERA is based on the only proven technology (DONUT) to identify on an event-by-event basis (nuclemulsamplead driven by real time detectors) It is celebrated as a major engineering achievement since it brought such technology to an immense size (125 kton)

()

RA

cqu

afre

dd

a et

al

ldquoT

he

Op

era

exp

erim

ent

in t

he

CE

RN

to

GS

b

eam

rdquo J

INS

T

4P

0401

820

09

1019 sensitive points of measurement 1 to be spanned throughhellip of which 1 to be recordedhellip

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 43

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 44

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

OPERA as real time experiment CNGS events are selected on a

delayed time coincidence between proton extractions from SPS and the events in OPERA

The synchronization is based on GPS with precision of ~100 ns (can be improved to 10ns)

DAQ livetime during CNGS is 988

Real time detection of neutrino interaction in target and in the rock surrounding OPERA

45

beam angle

TOPERATSPS

GPS

Time distribution of events in the neutrino run

Event time difference wrt the closest extraction

Angular distribution of muons

produced by interactions in the rock

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 46

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 47

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 48

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

CNGS Beam

TT

1st super-module

2nd super-module

bricks

scintillator

Target area Muon spectrometer

1 Event Triggering ndash Location ndash ECCExtraction

Brick Wall and Brick Manipulation system

49

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

ECC10cm

26cm

125cm

Changeable Sheet (CS)

T T

2 The emulsion interface films (CS) are separated from the brick and scanned looking for a connection with respect to the electronic detectors predictions

50

Angular accuracy of the electronic predictions (muons)

Position accuracy of the electronic Predictions (muons)

high signalnoise ratio for event trigger and interface between millimetric world of ED and micrometric world of the bricks for scanning time reduction

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

3 If tracks are found in the CS the brick is exposed to X-rays beam and to cosmic rays for sheets alignment

4 The brick is disassembled and the emulsion films are developed and sent to one of scanning labs

European Scanning System Super-UltraTrackSelector

CMOS camera

Scanning speed 20 cm2h

EUROPE Brick emulsion scanning 9 labsLNGS is CS scanning center

High speed CCD camera (3 kHz)

Scanning speed up to 75 cm2h

JAPANBrick emulsion scanning 2 labsNagoya is CS scanning center

51

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

1257565554535251504948hellip21

CS prediction

Scan-Backstart from CSprediction

Volume Scan5 up-stream10 down-stream

Tracks found in CS are followed in the most downstream films of the brick up to their stopping point Scan-back procedure

Volume scan a zone of ~ 2 cm2 in several films is measured around track disappearance point(s) to confirm the presence of the interaction

52

5 Brick Scanning and neutrino interaction vertex location

6 Vertex tracks may be followed in the forth direction for kinematical measurementsData are published on the central DataBase O(GBevent)

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

NCCC ratio measurement after removal of external bck accumulation at target borders Data 2008 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0014 (stat) Data 2009 NCCC= 0230 plusmn 0009 (stat) MC NCCC= 0236 plusmn 0005 (stat)

53

Muon reconstruction and hadronic showers behaviour in reasonable agreement dataMC for CC events

Raw hadronic energy deposited in TT scintillator (MeV)

Shower transverse profile

CC events quantities measured in the ED

Muon momentum

Track length x density (range for muon id)Muon identificationRange cut Range vs momentum measured in bricks with MCSBest brick-ED angular matching

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

54

Reconstructed tracks and momenta in bricks

MCS measurement of soft muons (plt6 GeV) in order to validate the technique for kinematical measurements and compare to momentum from ED

Track slope (rad)

Data Monte Carlo

= (22plusmn4)

Soft muons measured in OPERA

Momentum from electronic detector (GeVc)

Mom

en

tum

fro

m M

CS

(G

eV

c)

Event track multiplicity

distribution

p p

ltgt=28

Pmcs-Pspectro Pspectro

Reconstructed tracks at the primary vertex for CC

events Muon slopes measured at primary vertex compared to MC (at generator level )

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Scanning activities (till fall 2009) were focused on vertex location

55

Decay search

A systematic DECAY SEARCH was started on 2008 and 2009 data in order to find all possible decay topologies 1) improvement of the vertex definition and IP distribution 2) detection of possible kink topologies (on tracks attached to primary vertex) 3) search for extra tracks from decays not attached to primary vertex20 charm candidates were found so far (in good part with the scan-back and vertex location procedures) Charm events are the control sample for decay search completion of systematic decay search for final evaluation

Impact parameter distribution

Data

IPm

Muon IP (MC)

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

56

Events location summary for 2008 run

Events location summary for 2009 run

About 1400 neutrino interaction vertices localized

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

57

Topological identification and kinematical confirmation of a charm event

Primary vertex

Decay vertex

All units are in microns A D0 4 prongs decay candidate

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

58

Electrons and photons reconstruction

primary vertex

electromagnetic shower

A e CC interaction candidate

E ~05 GeV

E ~81 GeV

2 e-showers give a reconstructed mass 160plusmn30 MeVc2

e-paire+ e-

A CC interaction with 0 production

70 of 1-prong hadronic decays

include one or more 0 Important to detect gamma from tau decay to improve SN

Gamma detectiondetection of showerdetection e-pair at start point

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 59

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 60

1 Significanza dellrsquoosservazione del TAU in OPERA

Domande a cui deve rispondere OPERA

1 Esiste lrsquooscillazione nu(mu)-nu(tau)

2 Quanti sono i tau ldquooscillatirdquo

calcoliamola in funzione degli EVENTI osservati(invece che la canonica funzione di LUMINOSITArsquo)

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco - Padova OPERA - CTP 2009 61

Conclusions

OPERA goals 1) taursquos evidence

(~ 2 events expected to be observed utn) 2) taursquos oscillation confirmation 3) Ancillary results on charm and cosmics 4) Confirm the unexpected

OPERA challenges 1) from cm to micron precisions

2) Intimate interplay of ldquostandardrdquo and ldquosubtletiesrdquo technologies 3) ldquoIndustrialrdquo activities not only at construction time but even heavier at analysis stage 4) Up till now we collected 53 x 1019 pot

OPERA represent a unique measurement to stay in future textbooks

(~25 taus produced)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 62

Backup Slides

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 63

Evento sotto analisi al laboratorio di scanning di LEGNARO

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 64

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 65

Neutrino interaction 5 hadrons 1 muon 2 photons (one converts)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 66

Electron reconstruction and identification

Reconstruction principle ldquobackpropagationrdquo method to collect basetracks in a cone using connection criteria (slopes and positions)e separation Method use a neural network based on the reconstructed shower longitudinal profile and the number of collected basetracks

6 GeV electron (real data)in 20 emulsions ~33 X0

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 67

The CNGS UTC systems and the measurement of neutrino velocity

UTC Universal Time Coordinate

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 68

The Global Positioning System (GPS)The GPS system was built and it is controlled by the US militaries (DOD) it is composed by at least 24 satellites orbiting at 20000 Km the budget for maintenance is 500 M$year

Depending on the place and the time of the day on average between 5 and 8 satellites are visible by an observer on the earth

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 69

Each satellite is equipped with a Cs atomic clock and transmits its time and position (computed with its ephemeris)

eg x1y1z1t1The observer on the earth getting the quadrivectors of 4 satellites has to solve a system of 4 equations in order to find his own time and position x0y0z0t0

(x0-x1)2 + (y0-y1)2 + (z0-z1)2 = c2(t0-t1)2

(x0-x2)2 + (y0-y2)2 + (z0-z2)2 = c2(t0-t2)2

(x0-x3)2 + (y0-y3)2 + (z0-z3)2 = c2(t0-t3)2

(x0-x4)2 + (y0-y4)2 + (z0-z4)2 = c2(t0-t4)2

Then x0y0z0t0 can be converted in the more familiarLatitudeLongitudeAltitude and time

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 70

o At least 4 satellites are needed if only 3 satellites are visible one canstill compute the position by imposing the constraint of being on the surface of the earth (geoid model) in this case the altitude cannot be measured In case n (ngt4) satellites are visible the system becomes overconstrained and the precision improves as 1sqrt(n)

o If the observer knows already his position x0y0z0 (fixed observer)then just one satellite is needed in order to measure t0 (time mode)

o One assumes the speed of the ligth in vacuum (c) but this is not exactely the case since the ionosphere is a mediumThe satellite emits on two frequenciesL1=1575 GHz (CA code)L2=12276 GHz (P(y) code) in order to model and correct for the real speed of the ligth in the ionosphere (differential GPS)

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 71

The satellites needs to know their ephemeris and the atomic clocks need continously to be readjusted from the ground stations with a complex procedure Main control at Colorado Springs

Relativistic corrections are not negligible and are correctly taken into account

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72

Luca Stanco ndash ISTITUTO NAZIONALE di FISICA NUCLEARE - Padova 6 Maggio 2010 72

CERN-LNGS UTC clocks intercalibration

For the neutrino spill syncronization both CERN and LNGS have a double unit (including a spare) UTC clock system but from different manifacturers The CERN system was calibrated by the Swiss metrology institute METAS

CERN and LNGS systems have comparable performance (lt100 ns) and their single units are in both cases based on a GPS system + Rb clock

One of the CERN UTC units was installed and running for one month in Gran Sasso in order to check for relative offsets and time stability of the two systems Action was taken also to measure all the delays in the LNGS time distribution chain

LNGS UTC cloks(ESAT)

CERN Symmetricom XL-DC unit installed at LNGS

  • Slide 1
  • Slide 2
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Slide 6
  • Slide 7
  • Slide 8
  • Slide 9
  • Slide 10
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Slide 15
  • Slide 16
  • Slide 17
  • Slide 18
  • Slide 19
  • Slide 20
  • Slide 21
  • Slide 22
  • Slide 23
  • Slide 24
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • Slide 31
  • Slide 32
  • Slide 33
  • Slide 34
  • Slide 35
  • Slide 36
  • Slide 37
  • Slide 38
  • Slide 39
  • Slide 40
  • Slide 41
  • Slide 42
  • Slide 43
  • Slide 44
  • Slide 45
  • Slide 46
  • Slide 47
  • Slide 48
  • Slide 49
  • Slide 50
  • Slide 51
  • Slide 52
  • Slide 53
  • Slide 54
  • Slide 55
  • Slide 56
  • Slide 57
  • Slide 58
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Slide 61
  • Slide 62
  • Slide 63
  • Slide 64
  • Slide 65
  • Slide 66
  • Slide 67
  • Slide 68
  • Slide 69
  • Slide 70
  • Slide 71
  • Slide 72