The NOvA experiment: status and outlook
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Patterson, R. B.
Abstract
The NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is currently under construction and will use an upgraded NuMI neutrino source at Fermilab and a 14-kton detector at Ash River, Minnesota to explore the neutrino sector. NOvA uses a highly active, finely segmented detector design that offers superb event identification capability, allowing precision measurements of ν_e/ν_e appearance and ν_µ/ν_µ disappearance, through which NOvA will provide constraints on θ_13, θ_23, |Δm^2_(atm)|, the neutrino mass hierarchy, and the CP-violating phase δ. In this article, we review NOvA's uniquely broad physics scope, including sensitivity updates in light of the latest knowledge of θ_13, and we discuss the experiment's construction and operation timeline.
Additional Information
© 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V. The author acknowledges support from the Department of Energy under contracts ER40701 and ER41735.Attached Files
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- 34129
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- Department of Energy (DOE)
- ER40701
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- ER41735
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2012-09-17Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-09Created from EPrint's last_modified field