Speaker
Abbey Waldron
(S)
Description
The NOvA is the new generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation
experiment using a beam of neutrinos sent from Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory (Illinois, US) to 810 km distant far detector
at Ash River (Minnesota, US). Functionally identical near and far
detectors, now under construction, will be used to search for
CP-violating effects in the neutrino sector and to study the ordering
of the neutrino mass eigenstates. This talk will cover the goals of
the the NOvA experiment, describe the current status of the detector
construction and commissioning, and discuss expected sensitivities to
determination of the mass hierarchy, constraint of the theta-23 octant,
and the measurement of the CP-violating parameter delta-CP.
Primary author
Abbey Waldron
(S)
