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Results from MINOS and NOvA

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2016-01-21 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

The MINOS experiment, operating in the NuMI beam since 2005, has provided the most precise measurement of the atmospheric mass splitting Δm322|\Delta m^2_{32}|, and the recent combination of the νμ\nu_\mu, νe\nu_e, and atmospheric neutrino samples has provided some evidence of non-maximal mixing, and hints about the neutrino mass hierarchy and the θ23\theta_{23} octant. Construction of the NOvA experiment, situated off-axis in the upgraded NuMI beam, is almost complete. Over the coming years it will have significant power to probe the questions of the mass hierarchy, θ23\theta_{23} octant, and the possibility of CP\mathcal{CP} violation in the lepton sector. This paper gives an overview of the results from MINOS, and of the sensitivity of the NOvA experiment.

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@article{arxiv.1501.01016,
  title  = {Results from MINOS and NOvA},
  author = {C Backhouse},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.01016},
  year   = {2016}
}

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9 pages, 10 figures. Proceedings for NuPHYS 2013, to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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