NOvA's Current and Future Sterile Neutrino Searches
Abstract
The NOvA experiment's most recent search for eV-scale sterile neutrinos under a 3+1 model simultaneously analyses muon neutrino and neutral current datasets from the NuMI beam at its Near (\qty{1}{km} baseline) and Far (\qty{810}{km} baseline) detectors to look for oscillations consistent with a sterile neutrino. The analysis is systematically limited in the region of parameter space where . This region of parameter space is preferred by sterile neutrino interpretations of current experimental anomalies and so improving sensitivity here is high-priority. These proceedings present our current search strategy, and discusses future plans to include data from a second beamline, the Booster Neutrino Beam, to improve our sensitivity in systematics-dominated regions of parameter space.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.11345,
title = {NOvA's Current and Future Sterile Neutrino Searches},
author = {Adam Lister},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.11345},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
10 pages, 7 figures. Presented at NuPhys 2026 conference (C26-01-07)