The First JINR Prize 2021 in the Category “Experimental Research Work” Awarded to the Group of Scientists from the OPERA Collaboration
On 24–25 February 2022, at the 131st session of the JINR Scientific Council, the annual JINR Prizes were awarded for the best scientific, methodological and technological applied work. The First Prize in the category “Experimental Research Work” went to the team of DLNP scientists, participants of the OPERA experiment: S. G. Vasina, Yu. A. Gornushkin, S. G. Dmitrievsky, Z. V. Krumstein, D. V. Naumov, A. G. Olshevskiy, A. B. Sadovsky, A. P. Sotnikov, A. V. Chukanov, and A. S. Sheshukov for the series of papers “Neutrino studies in the OPERA experiment”.
A series of papers on studying neutrino properties in the CNGS beam line in the OPERA experiment was submitted for the competition. The presented results include the discovery of muon-to-tau neutrino oscillations via the direct observation of tau neutrinos appearing in the beam at a distance of 730 km away from the source, tau neutrino properties and muon-to-electron neutrino oscillations, and also limits on sterile neutrino existence. For 20 years, the DLNP team has been considerably contributing to obtaining these results, as well as to the development of the OPERA detector and the analysis of the data.
OPERA detector at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy)
One of the events of charged-current tau neutrino detection
Congratulations to our colleagues on this Prize! We wish you further success and new victories!
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