Speaker
Cristiana Principato
(University of Virginia)
Description
In this work we investigate the possibility to search for highly-ionizing particles, such as strangelets (hypothetical stable lumps of strange quark matter), with the NOvA Far Detector. The NovA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, designed to observe electron neutrino appearance, but it may also be used to detect highly ionizing particles of astrophysical origin. The NOvA Far detector is a 14kTon fine-grained, low-Z, total-absorption tracking calorimeter that provides excellent granularity and energy resolution and relatively low-energy neutrino thresholds. As a surface detector with large area, 4290 $m^{2}$, NOvA may achieve a sensitivity never reached before for certain classes of strangelets.
Primary author
Cristiana Principato
(University of Virginia)
Co-authors
E. Craig Dukes
(University of Virginia)
Martin Frank
(U)
Robert Group
(University of Virginia)
enhao song
(university of virginia)
