The RPC system of the OPERA experiment
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The OPERA experiment is designed to study the nm ! nt oscillation observing the nt appearance in a pure nm beam over a base line of 732 km from CERN to Gran Sasso Laboratory. The apparatus consists of a lead/emulsion-film target complemented by electronic detectors and muon spectrometers for muon charge and momentum measurements. The tracking inside the magnets is provide by Bakelite RPC chambers in a large scale application. The commissioning of the RPC system ended in August 2006. The paper present the layout of the RPC system and its performances. & 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Performances of the OPERA RPCs
OPERA is a dedicated experiment for the observation of nm into nt oscillations through t appearance using a 730 km long baseline nm beam from CERN to the Gran Sasso underground laboratory. The detector is equipped with two spectrometers for muon identification and charm background rejection. Bakelite RPCs are used as inner trackers inside the iron magnet of the spectrometers. The experiment has...
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