Speaker
Dr
Satish Desai
(University of Minnesota)
Description
The NOvA experiment will study neutrino oscillations using the NuMI
beam produced at Fermilab. The experiment is currently under
construction and will consist of a near detector at the Fermilab site,
and a far detector, located 810 km away in Ash River, Minnesota, both
14 mrad off of the beam axis. The fully active liquid scintillator
detectors are designed to identify the interaction of neutrinos from
the beam. With the recent discovery of a non-zero $\theta_{13}$ at
reactor-based neutrino experiments, NOvA will be well suited to study
the ordering of the neutrino mass eigenstates and to search for CP
violating effects in the neutrino sector. In this poster, I will
present the current status of the detector construction and
commissioning.
Primary author
Dr
Satish Desai
(University of Minnesota)