Fatti principali dei precedenti 12 mesi. - Nuvel History (no comment, but RPC are excellent !) - management problems - financial problems - 2° tau candidate - 19*1019p.ot at the end of 2012, 84% of foreseen statistics - numu->nue analysis in progress - not decided about extension of run, yet OPERA should exploit its physics goal: numu->nutau appearance 9 Luglio 2012 Stefano Dusini / Luca Stanco - CdS Padova 1 9 Luglio 2012 Stefano Dusini / Luca Stanco - CdS Padova 2 9 Luglio 2012 Stefano Dusini / Luca Stanco - CdS Padova 3 9 Luglio 2012 Stefano Dusini / Luca Stanco - CdS Padova 4 9 Luglio 2012 Stefano Dusini / Luca Stanco - CdS Padova 5 Lot of PHYSICS Analysis in progress… 9 Luglio 2012 Stefano Dusini / Luca Stanco - CdS Padova 6 9 Luglio 2012 Stefano Dusini / Luca Stanco - CdS Padova 7 New run with short-bunch narrow spacing beam for nu velocity measurement •Improved OPERA timing system + White Rabbit system for continuous fiber time delay monitoring •Independent OPERA timing system used in parallel exploiting RPC Timing Boards •Improvements in the systematic errors(with in progress…. new BCT values) New OPERA preliminary results using TT (earliest hit) using RPC (all muon hits) ! t = ( ² 1.6 ±1.1 (stat.) +6.1 ² 3.7 (sys.)) ns ! t = (² 2.7 ±1.3 (stat.)+7.7 ² 7.4 (sys.)) ns RPC using Trigger Boards (systematics to be reduced soon) using TT and all muon hits (systematic errors soon) ! t = ( ² 6.1±1.0 (stat.)) ns M. Dracos, 08/06/2012, Kyoto 9 Luglio 2012 ! t = (² 5.1± 0.6 (stat.)+6.5 ² 5.1 (sys.)) ns Stefano Dusini / Luca Stanco - CdS Padova 20 8 Microscopes in LNL LNL scanning lab members Test scanning on the microscope with a new type of scanning table (designed by C. Fanin) in progress. 9 Luglio 2012 Stefano Dusini / Luca Stanco - CdS Padova 9 Laboratorio LNL 2010 run 81% located Interesting events: 1 kink topology +1 new charm candidate +1 nue candidate Scanning and analysis on 2011 run is going on. Additionally to OPERA event analysis, PADOVA scanning lab is contributing on the study of the volcanoes by muon radiography using nuclear emulsion film. In this project, we collaborate with Tokyo, Napoli, Salerno, l’Aquila Universities and LNGS. 9 Luglio 2012 Stefano Dusini / Luca Stanco - CdS Padova 10 U. Kose is contributing on numunue oscillations study and DATA/MC comparison. He is also co-supervising thesis work in Laurea Magistrale in Fisica, entitled ”Development of new tracking algorithm and Electromagnetic shower reconstruction tool in the OPERA nuclear emulsions using GPU.” E. Medinaceli is contributing on MC study to improve of our understanding on charm analysis, mainly on the detection efficiencies and background estimations. He also works on the implementation of decay search tool in the MC. 9 Luglio 2012 Stefano Dusini / Luca Stanco - CdS Padova 11 Situazione del gruppo: Permanenti: R.Bertolin (40%) R.Brugnera (30%) F.Dal Corso (10%) S. Dusini (60%). Responsabile Locale A. Garfagnini (40%) C.Fanin (10%) C. Sirignano (80%) L.Stanco (40%) Impegni per Padova: 1. Short run 2013 ? 2. Analisi 3. Automazione sviluppo 4. Lab. scanning emulsioni Precari: Umut Kose (assegnista) (70%) Eduardo Medinaceli (ass. Univ.) 60% Responsabilità nella collaborazione - Luca Stanco: Publication&Talk board, CB - Stefano Dusini: Ad Interim Physics Coordinator, EC - Alessandro Bertolin: Project Leader RPC-XPC - Alberto Garfagnini: Slow Control supervisor - Chiara Sirignano / Umut Kose: Dark Matter Contributi dall’OE e OM per turni specializzati al Gran Sasso di - Sviluppo fotografico delle emulsioni in camera oscura - Analisi automatica di Scanning dei CS 9 Luglio 2012 Stefano Dusini / Luca Stanco - CdS Padova 12 Richieste finanziarie 2013 Missioni Interne: 110.5 +12(s.j.)+10(DM) Trasporti: 0 K€ Missioni Estero: 43 +10(DM) Costruzione Apparati: 28 K€ Consumo: 43 K€ Inventario: 0 K€ Tot (Padova).: 224.5+12(s.j.) + 20(DM) Manutenzione: 0 K€ Common Funds (Italia) circa 480 K€ Richieste ai servizi per il 2013: Elettronica: 1 m.u. per supporto maintenance Elettr. RPC 3 m.u. per shifts presso i LNGS Meccanica: 4 mesi uomo per shifts presso i LNGS Uffico Tecnico: 2 mesi per sviluppo lab. Scanning (incluso Fanin) 9 Luglio 2012 Stefano Dusini / Luca Stanco - CdS Padova 13