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Cherenkov Light in Liquid Scintillator at the NOvA Experiment

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

Probing new physics scenarios using high energy events at NOvA far detector

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

Measurement of $\pi^0$ Production in $\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$ Charged-Current Interactions in the NOvA Near Detector

We present a high-statistics measurement of muon antineutrino-induced charged-current neutral pion production on a hydrocarbon target using the NOvA Near Detector. The differential cross sections as functions of the momenta and angles of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-12 The NOvA Collaboration

Current Status for the Inclusive Neutral Current $\pi^{0}$ production Cross Section Measurement with the NOvA Near Detector

NOvA (NuMI Off-axis {\nu}e Appearance) experiment is designed to study long-baseline neutrino oscillations using two detectors, the Near Detector (ND) at Fermilab and the Far Detector (FD) at a distance 810 km in Northern Minnesota. NOvA…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-10 Daisy Kalra

Neutrino Scattering Uncertainties and their Role in Long Baseline Oscillation Experiments

The field of oscillation physics is about to make an enormous leap forward in statistical precision: first through the MINOS experiment in the coming year, and later through the NOvA and T2K experiments. Because of the relatively poor…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 The MINERvA Collaboration , D. A. Harris

Search for Accelerator-Produced Sub-GeV Dark Matter with the NOvA Near Detector

The NuMI facility at Fermilab produces a high-intensity beam of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos, designed to study neutrino oscillations. This beam may also be a source of dark matter particles produced through a light mediator. We search…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-13 S. Abubakar , M. 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 , E. F. Bannister , A. Barros , A. Bat , T. Bezerra , V. Bhatnagar , B. Bhuyan , J. Bian , A. C. Booth , R. Bowles , B. Brahma , C. Bromberg , N. Buchanan , A. Butkevich , T. J. Carroll , E. Catano-Mur , J. P. Cesar , R. Chirco , S. Choate , B. C. Choudhary , O. T. K. Chow , A. Christensen , M. F. Cicala , T. E. Coan , T. Contreras , A. Cooleybeck , D. Coveyou , L. Cremonesi , G. S. Davies , P. F. Derwent , Z. Djurcic , K. Dobbs , D. Duenas Tonguino , E. C. Dukes , R. Ehrlich , E. Ewart , P. Filip , M. J. Frank , H. R. Gallagher , A. Giri , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , R. Group , A. Habig , F. Hakl , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , J. M. Hays , M. He , K. Heller , V Hewes , A. Himmel , T. Horoho , X. Huang , A. Ivanova , I. Kakorin , A. Kalitkina , D. M. Kaplan , A. Khanam , B. Kirezli , J. Kleykamp , O. Klimov , L. W. Koerner , L. Kolupaeva , R. Kralik , A. Kumar , C. D. Kuruppu , V. Kus , T. Lackey , K. Lang , J. Lesmeister , A. Lister , J. A. Lock , S. Magill , W. A. Mann , M. T. Manoharan , M. Manrique Plata , M. L. Marshak , M. Martinez-Casales , V. Matveev , A. Medhi , B. Mehta , M. D. Messier , H. Meyer , T. Miao , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , R. Mohanta , A. Moren , A. Morozova , W. Mu , L. Mualem , M. Muether , C. Murthy , D. Myers , J. Nachtman , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , O. Neogi , R. Nichol , E. Niner , A. Norman , A. Norrick , H. Oh , A. Olshevskiy , T. Olson , A. Pal , J. Paley , L. Panda , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , R. Petti , L. R. Prais , A. Rafique , V. Raj , M. Rajaoalisoa , B. Ramson , B. Rebel , C. Reynolds , E. Robles , P. Roy , O. Samoylov , M. C. Sanchez , S. Sanchez Falero , P. Shanahan , P. Sharma , A. Sheshukov , Shivam , A. Shmakov , W. Shorrock , S. Shukla , I. Singh , V. Singh , S. Singh Chhibra , J. Smolik , P. Snopok , N. Solomey , A. Sousa , K. Soustruznik , M. Strait , C. Sullivan , L. Suter , A. Sutton , S. Swain , A. Sztuc , N. Talukdar , P. Tas , J. Thomas , E. Tiras , M. Titus , Y. Torun , D. Tran , J. Trokan-Tenorio , J. Urheim , B. Utt , P. Vahle , Z. Vallari , K. J. Vockerodt , A. V. Waldron , M. Wallbank , C. Weber , M. Wetstein , D. Whittington , D. A. Wickremasinghe , J. Wolcott , S. Wu , W. Wu , Y. Xiao , B. Yaeggy , A. Yahaya , A. Yankelevich , K. Yonehara , S. Zadorozhnyy , J. Zalesak , R. Zwaska

Track Reconstruction in the NOvA Experiment

The NuMI Off-Axis v Appearance (NOvA) experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using a neutrino source created from the NuMI Beamline at Fermilab. The experiment will study the oscillations of muon neutrinos to electron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-09-27 N. Raddatz

Sterile neutrino search in the NOvA Far Detector

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

First measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters using neutrinos and antineutrinos by NOvA

The NOvA experiment has made a $4.4\sigma$-significant observation of $\bar\nu_{e}$ appearance in a 2 GeV $\bar\nu_{\mu}$ beam at a distance of 810 km. Using $12.33\times10^{20}$ protons on target delivered to the Fermilab NuMI neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-18 M. A. Acero , P. Adamson , L. Aliaga , T. Alion , V. Allakhverdian , S. Altakarli , N. Anfimov , A. Antoshkin , A. Aurisano , A. Back , C. Backhouse , M. Baird , N. Balashov , P. Baldi , B. A. Bambah , S. Bashar , K. Bays , S. Bending , R. Bernstein , V. Bhatnagar , B. Bhuyan , J. Bian , T. Blackburn , J. Blair , A. C. Booth , P. Bour , C. Bromberg , N. Buchanan , A. Butkevich , S. Calvez , M. Campbell , T. J. Carroll , E. Catano-Mur , A. Cedeno , S. Childress , B. C. Choudhary , B. Chowdhury , T. E. Coan , M. Colo , J. Cooper , L. Corwin , L. Cremonesi , G. S. Davies , P. F. Derwent , P. Ding , Z. Djurcic , D. Doyle , E. C. Dukes , H. Duyang , S. Edayath , R. Ehrlich , M. Elkins , G. J. Feldman , P. Filip , W. Flanagan , M. J. Frank , H. R. Gallagher , R. Gandrajula , F. Gao , S. Germani , A. Giri , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , V. Grichine , M. Groh , R. Group , B. Guo , A. Habig , F. Hakl , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , A. Hatzikoutelis , K. Heller , V Hewes , A. Himmel , A. Holin , B. Howard , J. Huang , J. Hylen , F. Jediny , C. Johnson , M. Judah , I. Kakorin , D. Kalra , D. M. Kaplan , R. Keloth , O. Klimov , L. W. Koerner , L. Kolupaeva , S. Kotelnikov , A. Kreymer , Ch. Kulenberg , A. Kumar , C. D. Kuruppu , V. Kus , T. Lackey , K. Lang , S. Lin , M. Lokajicek , J. Lozier , S. Luchuk , K. Maan , S. Magill , W. A. Mann , M. L. Marshak , M. Martinez-Casales , V. Matveev , D. P. Mendez , M. D. Messier , H. Meyer , T. Miao , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , A. Mislivec , R. Mohanta , A. Moren , L. Mualem , M. Muether , S. Mufson , K. Mulder , R. Murphy , J. Musser , D. Naples , N. Nayak , J. K. Nelson , R. Nichol , G. Nikseresht , E. Niner , A. Norman , T. Nosek , A. Olshevskiy , T. Olson , J. Paley , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , D. Pershey , O. Petrova , R. Petti , D. D. Phan , R. K. Plunkett , B. Potukuchi , C. Principato , F. Psihas , A. Radovic , V. Raj , R. A. Rameika , B. Rebel , P. Rojas , V. Ryabov , O. Samoylov , M. C. Sanchez , S. Sanchez Falero , I. S. Seong , P. Shanahan , A. Sheshukov , P. Singh , V. Singh , E. Smith , J. Smolik , P. Snopok , N. Solomey , E. Song , A. Sousa , K. Soustruznik , M. Strait , L. Suter , A. Sutton , R. L. Talaga , B. Tapia Oregui , P. Tas , R. B. Thayyullathil , J. Thomas , E. Tiras , D. Torbunov , J. Tripathi , A. Tsaris , Y. Torun , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , J. Vasel , L. Vinton , P. Vokac , T. Vrba , M. Wallbank , B. Wang , T. K. Warburton , M. Wetstein , M. While , D. Whittington , S. G. Wojcicki , J. Wolcott , N. Yadav , A. Yallappa Dombara , K. Yonehara , S. Yu , S. Zadorozhnyy , J. Zalesak , B. Zamorano , R. Zwaska

Preliminary Results from MINOS on Muon Neutrino Disappearance Based on an Exposure of 2.5x10^20 120 GeV Protons on the NuMI Target

Updating our previous measurements with new data and analysis modifications, we report preliminary results on the energy-dependent deficit of muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam as observed with the MINOS Far Detector located 735 km…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 MINOS Collaboration

Measurement of d2sigma/d|q|dEavail in charged current neutrino-nucleus interactions at <Ev> = 1.86 GeV using the NOvA Near Detector

Double- and single-differential cross sections for inclusive charged-current neutrino-nucleus scattering are reported for the kinematic domain 0 to 2 GeV/c in three-momentum transfer and 0 to 2 GeV in available energy, at a mean…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-03-21 M. A. Acero , B. Acharya , P. Adamson , L. Aliaga , N. Anfimov , A. Antoshkin , E. Arrieta-Diaz , L. Asquith , A. Aurisano , A. Back , N. Balashov , P. Baldi , B. A. Bambah , E. Bannister , A. Barros , S. Bashar , 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 , B. C. Choudhary , A. Christensen , M. F. Cicala , T. E. Coan , A. Cooleybeck , C. Cortes-Parra , D. Coveyou , L. Cremonesi , G. S. Davies , P. F. Derwent , P. Ding , Z. Djurcic , K. Dobbs , M. Dolce , D. Doyle , D. Duenas Tonguino , E. C. Dukes , A. Dye , R. Ehrlich , E. Ewart , P. Filip , 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 , T. Horoho , Y. Ivaneev , A. Ivanova , B. Jargowsky , J. Jarosz , C. Johnson , M. Judah , I. Kakorin , D. M. Kaplan , A. Kalitkina , B. Kirezli-Ozdemir , J. Kleykamp , O. Klimov , L. W. Koerner , L. Kolupaeva , R. Kralik , A. Kumar , C. D. Kuruppu , V. Kus , T. Lackey , K. Lang , J. Lesmeister , A. Lister , J. Liu , J. A. Lock , M. Lokajicek , M. MacMahon , S. Magill , W. A. Mann , M. T. Manoharan , M. Manrique Plata , M. L. Marshak , M. Martinez-Casales , V. Matveev , B. Mehta , M. D. Messier , H. Meyer , T. Miao , 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 , M. Ozkaynak , A. Pal , J. Paley , L. Panda , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , R. Petti , R. K. Plunkett , L. R. Prais , M. Rabelhofer , A. Rafique , V. Raj , M. Rajaoalisoa , B. Ramson , B. Rebel , P. Roy , O. Samoylov , M. C. Sanchez , S. Sanchez Falero , P. Shanahan , P. Sharma , A. Sheshukov , Shivam , A. Shmakov , W. Shorrock , S. Shukla , D. K. Singha , 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 , Y. Torun , D. Tran , J. Trokan-Tenorio , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , Z. Vallari , J. D. Villamil , K. J. Vockerodt , M. Wallbank , M. Wetstein , D. Whittington , D. A. Wickremasinghe , T. Wieber , J. Wolcott , M. Wrobel , S. Wu , W. Wu , Y. Xiao , B. Yaeggy , A. Yahaya , A. Yankelevich , K. Yonehara , Y. Yu , S. Zadorozhnyy , J. Zalesak , R. Zwaska

The Smallness of Matter Effects in Long-Baseline Muon Neutrino Disappearance

Current long-baseline accelerator experiments, NOvA and T2K, are making excellent measurements of neutrino oscillations and the next generation of experiments, DUNE and HK, will make measurements at the $\mathcal O(1\%)$ level of precision.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-11 Peter B. Denton , Stephen J. Parke

Potential of optimized NOvA for large theta(13) & combined performance with a LArTPC & T2K

NOvA experiment has reoptimized its event selection criteria in light of the recently measured moderately large value of theta(13). We study the improvement in the sensitivity to the neutrino mass hierarchy and to leptonic CP violation due…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-05 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Suprabh Prakash , Sushant K. Raut , S. Uma Sankar

Dual-Baseline Search for Active-to-Sterile Neutrino Oscillations in NOvA

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

Determining the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy and CP Violation in NOvA with a Second Off-Axis Detector

We consider a Super-NOvA-like experimental configuration based on the use of two detectors in a long-baseline experiment as NOvA. We take the far detector as in the present NOvA proposal and add a second detector at a shorter baseline. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Silvia Pascoli

Design, Calibration, and Performance of the MINERvA Detector

The MINERvA experiment is designed to perform precision studies of neutrino-nucleus scattering using $\nu_\mu$ and ${\bar\nu}_\mu$ neutrinos incident at 1-20 GeV in the NuMI beam at Fermilab. This article presents a detailed description of…

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Neutrino Flux Studies at NO{\nu}A

We present the systematic-error study of the neutrino flux in the NO{\nu}A experiment. Systematic errors on the flux at the near detector (ND), far detector (FD), and the ratio FD/ND, due to the beam-transport and hadro-production are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-03 Kuldeep Kaur Maan , Hongyue Duyang , Sanjib Ratan Mishra , Vipin Bhatnagar

Counting muons to probe the neutrino mass spectrum

The experimental evidence that \theta_{13} is large opens new opportunities to identify the neutrino mass spectrum. We outline a possibility to investigate this issue by means of conventional technology. The ideal setup turns out to be long…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-04 Carolina Lujan-Peschard , Giulia Pagliaroli , Francesco Vissani

Discovery Potential of T2K and NOvA in the Presence of a Light Sterile Neutrino

We study the impact of one light sterile neutrino on the prospective data expected to come from the two presently running long-baseline experiments T2K and NOvA when they will accumulate their full planned exposure. Introducing for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Sabya Sachi Chatterjee , Arnab Dasgupta , Antonio Palazzo

Radiative neutron capture cross section of $^{242}$Pu measured at n_TOF-EAR1 in the unresolved resonance region up to 600 keV

Accurate neutron capture cross sections are essential for the design and operation of fast reactors using MOX fuels. For $^{242}$Pu, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) recommends 8--12% accuracy in the fast energy region (2--500 keV), compared…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-01-09 J. Lerendegui-Marco , C. Guerrero , E. Mendoza , J. M. Quesada , K. Eberhardt , A. R. Junghans , V. Alcayne , V. Babiano , O. Aberle , J. Andrzejewski , L. Audouin , V. Becares , M. Bacak , J. Balibrea-Correa , M. Barbagallo , S. Barros , F. Becvar , C. Beinrucker , E. Berthoumieux , J. Billowes , D. Bosnar , M. Brugger , M. Caamaño , F. Calviño , M. Calviani , D. Cano-Ott , R. Cardella , A. Casanovas , D. M. Castelluccio , F. Cerutti , Y. H. Chen , E. Chiaveri , N. Colonna , G. Cortés , M. A. Cortés-Giraldo , L. Cosentino , L. A. Damone , M. Diakaki , M. Dietz , C. Domingo-Pardo , R. Dressler , E. Dupont , I. Durán , B. Fernández-Domínguez , A. Ferrari , P. Ferreira , P. Finocchiaro , V. Furman , K. Göbel , A. R. García , A. Gawlik , T. Glodariu , I. F. Goncalves , E. González-Romero , A. Goverdovski , E. Griesmayer , F. Gunsing , H. Harada , T. Heftrich , S. Heinitz , J. Heyse , D. G. Jenkins , E. Jericha , F. Käppeler , Y. Kadi , T. Katabuchi , P. Kavrigin , V. Ketlerov , V. Khryachkov , A. Kimura , N. Kivel , M. Kokkoris , M. Krticka , E. Leal-Cidoncha , C. Lederer-Woods , H. Leeb , S. Lo Meo , S. J. Lonsdale , R. Losito , D. Macina , J. Marganiec , T. Martínez , C. Massimi , P. Mastinu , M. Mastromarco , F. Matteucci , E. A. Maugeri , A. Mengoni , P. M. Milazzo , F. Mingrone , M. Mirea , S. Montesano , A. Musumarra , R. Nolte , A. Oprea , N. Patronis , A. Pavlik , J. Perkowski , J. I. Porras , J. Praena , K. Rajeev , T. Rauscher , R. Reifarth , A. Riego-Perez , P. C. Rout , C. Rubbia , J. A. Ryan , M. Sabaté-Gilarte , A. Saxena , P. Schillebeeckx , S. Schmidt , D. Schumann , P. Sedyshev , A. G. Smith , A. Stamatopoulos , G. Tagliente , J. L. Tain , A. Tarifeño-Saldivia , L. Tassan-Got , A. Tsinganis , S. Valenta , G. Vannini , V. Variale , P. Vaz , A. Ventura , V. Vlachoudis , R. Vlastou , A. Wallner , S. Warren , M. Weigand , C. Weiss , C. Wolf , P. J. Woods , T. Wright , P. Zugec , the n_TOF Collaboration