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Recent Cross Section Work From NOvA

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-08-13 v2 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

The NOvA experiment is an off-axis long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment seeking to measure νμ\nu_{\mu} disappearance and νe\nu_{e} appearance in a νμ\nu_{\mu} beam originating at Fermilab. In addition to measuring the unoscillated neutrino spectra for the purposes of predicting the oscillated neutrino spectrum in the far detector, the 293-ton near detector also enables high-statistics investigation into neutrino scattering in numerous reaction channels. We discuss the various near detector analyses currently in progress, including inclusive measurements of both electron and muon neutrino charged-current interactions and efforts to constrain the off-axis NuMI flux using the elastic scattering of neutrinos from atomic electrons.

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@article{arxiv.1611.02600,
  title  = {Recent Cross Section Work From NOvA},
  author = {J. Wolcott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.02600},
  year   = {2019}
}

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6 pages, 10 figures; proceedings from 18th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta beams (NuFact2016), August 21-27 2016, Quy Nhon, Vietnam