The OPERA experiment was designed to discover the v τ appearance in a v μ beam, due to neutrino oscillations. The detector, located in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory, consisted of a nuclear photographic emulsion/lead target with a mass of about 1.25 kt, complemented by electronic detectors. It was exposed from 2008 to 2012 to the CNGS beam: an almost pure v μ beam with a baseline of 730 km, collecting a total of 1.8·10 20 protons on target. The OPERA Collaboration eventually assessed the discovery of v μ → v τ oscillations with a statistical significance of 6.1 σ by observing ten v τ CC interaction candidates. These events have been published on the Open Data Portal at CERN. This paper provides a detailed description of the v τ data sample to make it usable by the whole community.
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Experimental particle physics,Phenomenology,Science,Humanities and Social Sciences,multidisciplinary