Thursday, November 10, 2011, 16:00
OSGA/E6
J. Nowak, University of Minnesota
Abstract:
The NuMI Off-Axis electron neutrino Appearance experiment (NOvA) is a
long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment and the flagship project
of the Intensity Frontier initiative of the Fermi National Laboratory.
The NOvA experiment has started taking data with the Near Detector
placed in a surface building in November 2010. The far detector of the
NOvA experiment is currently under construction and will be located in
Ash River, 810 km away from Femilab and 14 mrad off the beam axis. The
totally active scintiallator detector is designed to identify electron
neutrinos that result from the oscillation of beam muon neutrinos. The
narrow neutrino beam will be provided by the upgraded NUMI beamline at
Fermilab. Among main goals of the NOvA experiment are precise
measurements of the values of the atmospheric neutrino oscillations,
determining the value of the theta13 mixing angle and subsequently the
CP violation effect enhanced by the matter effects. The far detector in
Northern Minnesota will also be sensitive to neutrinos from supernova.