Speaker
Dr
Michael Baird
(University of Virginia)
Description
In light of the Nobel Prize awarded for neutrino oscillations in 2015, it is an exciting time to be a part of a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. NOvA is one such experiment based out of Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory, which uses two liquid scintillator detectors, one at Fermilab (the ``near" detector) and a second 14 kton detector in northern Minnesota (the ``far" detector.) The numu disappearance analysis is sensitive to the mixing parameters $\theta_{23}$ and $\Delta m^{2}_{32}$ and is capable of shedding light on the open question of whether or not $\theta_{23}$ is maximal. This talk will present the results from the second $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance analysis using a full detector equivalent of $6.05 \times 10^{20}$ POT, which rejects the maximal mixing solution at 2.6$\sigma$.
Primary author
Dr
Michael Baird
(University of Virginia)