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The NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is currently under construction and will use an upgraded NuMI neutrino source at Fermilab and a 14-kton detector at Ash River, Minnesota to explore the neutrino sector. NOvA uses a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-22 R. B. Patterson

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that detects neutrino particles from the NuMI beam at Fermilab. Before data from this experiment can be used in analyses, raw hits in the detector must be matched to their source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Edgar E. Robles , Dikshant Sagar , Alejandro Yankelevich , Jianming Bian , Pierre Baldi , NOvA Collaboration

The NOvA project is a long-baseline neutrino experiment. It utilizes the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab and consists of two functionally-identical liquid scintillator filled detectors. The detectors are placed 14 milliradians off-axis from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 S. Lein

The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline at Fermilab generates an intense muon neutrino beam for the NOvA (NuMI Off-axis $\nu_e$ Appearance) long-baseline neutrino experiment. Over the years, the NuMI beamline has been pivotal in…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 D. A. A. Wickremasinghe , K. Yonehara

MINERvA (Main INjector ExpeRiment v-A) is a few-GeV neutrino scattering experiment that began taking data in the NuMI beam at Fermilab (FNAL) in the Fall of 2009. MINERvA employs a fine-grained detector, with an eight ton active target…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Gabriel N. Perdue

The NOvA experiment is an off-axis long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment measuring $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance and $\nu_{e}$ appearance in a $\nu_{\mu}$ beam originating at Fermilab. Oscillations are observed in the far detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-01-17 Jeremy Wolcott

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 ($\sim$\qty{1}{km} baseline) and Far (\qty{810}{km}…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-13 Adam Lister

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that measures oscillations in charged-current $\nu_{\mu} \rightarrow \nu_{\mu}$ (disappearance) and $\nu_{\mu} \rightarrow \nu_{e}$ (appearance) channels, and their antineutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-07-15 NOvA Collaboration , M. A. Acero , B. Acharya , P. Adamson , N. Anfimov , A. Antoshkin , E. Arrieta-Diaz , L. Asquith , A. Aurisano , A. Back , N. Balashov , P. Baldi , B. A. Bambah , A. Bat , K. Bays , R. Bernstein , T. J. C. Bezerra , V. Bhatnagar , D. Bhattarai , B. Bhuyan , J. Bian , A. C. Booth , R. Bowles , B. Brahma , C. Bromberg , N. Buchanan , A. Butkevich , S. Calvez , T. J. Carroll , E. Catano-Mur , J. P. Cesar , A. Chatla , R. Chirco , S. Chaudhary , B. C. Choudhary , A. Christensen , T. E. Coan , A. Cooleybeck , L. Cremonesi , G. S. Davies , P. F. Derwent , P. Ding , Z. Djurcic , M. Dolce , D. Doyle , D. Dueñas Tonguino , E. C. Dukes , A. Dye , R. Ehrlich , M. Elkins , E. Ewart , P. Filip , J. Franc , M. J. Frank , H. R. Gallagher , F. Gao , A. Giri , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , M. Groh , R. Group , A. Habig , F. Hakl , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , M. He , K. Heller , V Hewes , A. Himmel , B. Jargowsky , J. Jarosz , F. Jediny , C. Johnson , M. Judah , I. Kakorin , D. M. Kaplan , A. Kalitkina , J. Kleykamp , O. Klimov , L. W. Koerner , L. Kolupaeva , R. Kralik , A. Kumar , C. D. Kuruppu , V. Kus , T. Lackey , K. Lang , P. Lasorak , J. Lesmeister , A. Lister , J. Liu , M. Lokajicek , M. MacMahon , J. A. Lock , S. Magill , M. Manrique Plata , W. A. Mann , M. T. Manoharan , M. L. Marshak , M. Martinez-Casales , V. Matveev , B. Mehta , M. D. Messier , H. Meyer , T. Miao , V. Mikola , W. H. Miller , S. Mishra , S. R. Mishra , R. Mohanta , A. Moren , A. Morozova , W. Mu , L. Mualem , M. Muether , K. Mulder , D. Myers , D. Naples , A. Nath , S. Nelleri , J. K. Nelson , R. Nichol , E. Niner , A. Norman , A. Norrick , T. Nosek , H. Oh , A. Olshevskiy , T. Olson , A. Pal , J. Paley , L. Panda , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , O. Petrova , R. Petti , R. K. Plunkett , A. Rafique , L. R. Prais , V. Raj , M. Rajaoalisoa , B. Ramson , B. Rebel , P. Roy , O. Samoylov , M. C. Sanchez , S. Sánchez Falero , P. Shanahan , P. Sharma , S. Shukla , A. Sheshukov , D. K. Singha , W. Shorrock , I. Singh , P. Singh , V. Singh , E. Smith , J. Smolik , P. Snopok , N. Solomey , A. Sousa , K. Soustruznik , M. Strait , L. Suter , A. Sutton , K. Sutton , S. Swain , C. Sweeney , A. Sztuc , B. Tapia Oregui , P. Tas , T. Thakore , J. Thomas , E. Tiras , J. Trokan-Tenorio , Y. Torun , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , Z. Vallari , K. J. Vockerodt , T. Vrba , M. Wallbank , T. K. Warburton , M. Wetstein , D. Whittington , D. A. Wickremasinghe , T. Wieber , J. Wolcott , M. Wrobel , S. Wu , W. Wu , Y. Xiao , B. Yaeggy , A. Yankelevich , K. Yonehara , Y. Yu , S. Zadorozhnyy , J. Zalesak , R. Zwaska

This Letter reports results from the first long-baseline search for sterile antineutrinos mixing in an accelerator-based antineutrino-dominated beam. The rate of neutral-current interactions in the two NOvA detectors, at distances of 1 km…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-17 M. A. Acero , P. Adamson , L. Aliaga , N. Anfimov , A. Antoshkin , E. Arrieta-Diaz , L. Asquith , A. Aurisano , A. Back , C. Backhouse , M. Baird , N. Balashov , P. Baldi , B. A. Bambah , S. Bashar , K. Bays , R. Bernstein , V. Bhatnagar , B. Bhuyan , J. Bian , J. Blair , A. C. Booth , R. Bowles , C. Bromberg , N. Buchanan , A. Butkevich , S. Calvez , T. J. Carroll , E. Catano-Mur , B. C. Choudhary , A. Christensen , T. E. Coan , M. Colo , L. Cremonesi , G. S. Davies , P. F. Derwent , P. Ding , Z. Djurcic , M. Dolce , D. Doyle , D. Dueñas Tonguino , E. C. Dukes , H. Duyang , S. Edayath , R. Ehrlich , M. Elkins , E. Ewart , G. J. Feldman , P. Filip , J. Franc , M. J. Frank , H. R. Gallagher , R. Gandrajula , F. Gao , A. Giri , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , V. Grichine , M. Groh , R. Group , B. Guo , A. Habig , F. Hakl , A. Hall , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , H. Hausner , K. Heller , V Hewes , A. Himmel , A. Holin , J. Huang , B. Jargowsky , J. Jarosz , F. Jediny , C. Johnson , M. Judah , I. Kakorin , D. Kalra , A. Kalitkina , D. M. Kaplan , R. Keloth , O. Klimov , L. W. Koerner , L. Kolupaeva , S. Kotelnikov , R. Kralik , Ch. Kullenberg , M. Kubu , A. Kumar , C. D. Kuruppu , V. Kus , T. Lackey , P. Lasorak , K. Lang , J. Lesmeister , S. Lin , A. Lister , J. Liu , M. Lokajicek , S. Magill , M. Manrique Plata , W. A. Mann , M. L. Marshak , M. Martinez-Casales , V. Matveev , B. Mayes , D. P. Méndez , M. D. Messier , H. Meyer , T. Miao , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , A. Mislivec , R. Mohanta , A. Moren , A. Morozova , W. Mu , L. Mualem , M. Muether , K. Mulder , D. Naples , N. Nayak , J. K. Nelson , R. Nichol , E. Niner , A. Norman , A. Norrick , T. Nosek , H. Oh , A. Olshevskiy , T. Olson , J. Ott , J. Paley , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , O. Petrova , R. Petti , D. D. Phan , R. K. Plunkett , J. C. C. Porter , A. Rafique , V. Raj , M. Rajaoalisoa , B. Ramson , B. Rebel , P. Rojas , V. Ryabov , O. Samoylov , M. C. Sanchez , S. Sánchez Falero , P. Shanahan , A. Sheshukov , P. Singh , V. Singh , E. Smith , J. Smolik , P. Snopok , N. Solomey , A. Sousa , K. Soustruznik , M. Strait , L. Suter , A. Sutton , S. Swain , C. Sweeney , B. Tapia Oregui , P. Tas , T. Thakore , R. B. Thayyullathil , J. Thomas , E. Tiras , J. Tripathi , J. Trokan-Tenorio , A. Tsaris , Y. Torun , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , Z. Vallari , J. Vasel , P. Vokac , T. Vrba , M. Wallbank , T. K. Warburton , M. Wetstein , D. Whittington , D. A. Wickremasinghe , S. G. Wojcicki , J. Wolcott , W. Wu , Y. Xiao , A. Yallappa Dombara , K. Yonehara , S. Yu , Y. Yu , S. Zadorozhnyy , J. Zalesak , Y. Zhang , R. Zwaska

This is an updated version of the NOvA proposal. The detector is a 30 kiloton tracking calorimeter, 15.7 m by 15.7 m by 132 m long, with alternating horizontal and vertical rectangular cells of liquid scintillator contained in PVC extrusion…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 The NOvA Collaboration , D. Ayres

NuMI Off-axis $\nu_e$ Appearance (NOvA) experiment is an ongoing long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. The primary channels of interest are the $\nu_e$, $\bar{\nu}_e$ appearance, $\nu_\mu$, $\bar{\nu}_\mu$ disappearance channels…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-01 Chinmay Bera , K. N. Deepthi

The MINERvA neutrino interaction experiment in the NuMI beam at Fermilab will measure several aspects of neutrino interactions in the few GeV energy region. We will make cross section and form factor measurements using a fine-grained fully…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard Gran

The NuMI Off-Axis $\nu_{e}$ Appearance (NO$\nu$A) is the currently running leading long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, whose main physics goal is to explore the current issues in the neutrino sector, such as determination of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 C. Soumya , R. Mohanta

We report a search for neutrino oscillations to sterile neutrinos under a model with three active and one sterile neutrinos (3+1 model). This analysis uses the NOvA detectors exposed to the NuMI beam, running in neutrino mode. The data…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-27 The NOvA Collaboration

We report results from the first search for sterile neutrinos mixing with active neutrinos through a reduction in the rate of neutral-current interactions over a baseline of 810\,km between the NOvA detectors. Analyzing a 14-kton detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-16 NOvA Collaboration , P. Adamson , L. Aliaga , D. Ambrose , N. Anfimov , A. Antoshkin , E. Arrieta-Diaz , K. Augsten , A. Aurisano , C. Backhouse , M. Baird , B. A. Bambah , K. Bays , B. Behera , S. Bending , R. Bernstein , V. Bhatnagar , B. Bhuyan , J. Bian , T. Blackburn , A. Bolshakova , C. Bromberg , J. Brown , G. Brunetti , N. Buchanan , A. Butkevich , V. Bychkov , M. Campbell , E. Catano-Mur , S. Childress , B. C. Choudhary , B. Chowdhury , T. E. Coan , J. A. B. Coelho , M. Colo , J. Cooper , L. Corwin , L. Cremonesi , D. Cronin-Hennessy , G. S. Davies , J. P. Davies , P. F. Derwent , R. Dharmapalan , P. Ding , Z. Djurcic , E. C. Dukes , H. Duyang , S. Edayath , R. Ehrlich , G. J. Feldman , M. J. Frank , M. Gabrielyan , H. R. Gallagher , S. Germani , T. Ghosh , A. Giri , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , V. Grichine , M. Groh , R. Group , D. Grover , B. Guo , A. Habig , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , A. Hatzikoutelis , K. Heller , A. Himmel , A. Holin , B. Howard , J. Hylen , F. Jediny , M. Judah , G. K. Kafka , D. Kalra , S. M. S. Kasahara , S. Kasetti , R. Keloth , L. Kolupaeva , S. Kotelnikov , I. Kourbanis , A. Kreymer , A. Kumar , S. Kurbanov , T. Lackey , K. Lang , W. M. Lee , S. Lin , M. Lokajicek , J. Lozier , S. Luchuk , K. Maan , S. Magill , W. A. Mann , M. L. Marshak , K. Matera , V. Matveev , D. P. Méndez , M. D. Messier , H. Meyer , T. Miao , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , R. Mohanta , A. Moren , L. Mualem , M. Muether , S. Mufson , R. Murphy , J. Musser , J. K. Nelson , R. Nichol , E. Niner , A. Norman , T. Nosek , Y. Oksuzian , A. Olshevskiy , T. Olson , J. Paley , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , D. Pershey , O. Petrova , R. Petti , S. Phan-Budd , R. K. Plunkett , R. Poling , B. Potukuchi , C. Principato , F. Psihas , A. Radovic , R. A. Rameika , B. Rebel , B. Reed , D. Rocco , P. Rojas , V. Ryabov , K. Sachdev , P. Sail , O. Samoylov , M. C. Sanchez , R. Schroeter , J. Sepulveda-Quiroz , P. Shanahan , A. Sheshukov , J. Singh , J. Singh , P. Singh , V. Singh , J. Smolik , N. Solomey , E. Song , A. Sousa , K. Soustruznik , M. Strait , L. Suter , R. L. Talaga , P. Tas , R. B. Thayyullathil , J. Thomas , X. Tian , S. C. Tognini , J. Tripathi , A. Tsaris , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , J. Vasel , L. Vinton , A. Vold , T. Vrba , B. Wang , M. Wetstein , D. Whittington , S. G. Wojcicki , J. Wolcott , N. Yadav , S. Yang , J. Zalesak , B. Zamorano , R. Zwaska

The majority of neutrino oscillation experiments have obtained evidence for neutrino oscillations that are compatible with the three-flavor model. Explaining anomalous results from short-baseline experiments, such as LSND and MiniBooNE, in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-04 Sijith Edayath , Adam Aurisano , Alexandre Sousa , Gavin Davies , Louise Suter , Shaokai Yang

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with two functionally identical liquid scintillator tracking detectors, i.e. the Near Detector (ND) and the Far Detector (FD). One of NOvA's physics goal is to measure neutrino…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-30 Shiqi Yu

The complex events observed at the NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment contain vital information for understanding the most elusive particles in the standard model. The NOvA detectors observe interactions of neutrinos from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Alexander Shmakov , Alejandro Yankelevich , Jianming Bian , Pierre Baldi

The NOvA long-baseline neutrino experiment consists of two highly active, finely segmented, liquid scintillator detectors located 14.6 mrad off Fermilab's NuMI beam axis, with a Near Detector located at Fermilab, and a Far Detector located…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-03 Louise Suter