4–8 Aug 2015
America/Detroit timezone

Muon neutrino disappearance at NOvA

7 Aug 2015, 16:00
18m
Hussey (Michigan League)

Hussey

Michigan League

Neutrino Experiment Neutrino Physics

Speaker

Kirk Bays

Description

NOvA is a long-baseline (810 km) neutrino oscillation experiment utilizing the recently upgraded NuMI beam at Fermilab and a highly segmented 14 kton liquid scintillator far detector 14 mrad off beam axis at Ash River, MN. NOvA will provide high precision measurements of ${\Delta}M^2_{23}$, ${\theta}_{13}$, and ${\theta}_{23}$; help constrain ${\delta}_{CP}$; and potentially determine the mass hierarchy and the octant through both disappearance and appearance channels. The current status of the disappearance analysis will be presented, focused on measuring ${\Delta}M^2_{23}$ and ${\theta}_{23}$ with NOvA's first data.
Oral or Poster Presentation Oral

Primary author

Kirk Bays

Presentation materials