The NOvA Experiment: Overview and Status

Abstract

The NO$\nu$A experiment is a long-baseline accelerator based neutrino oscillation experiment. It uses the upgraded Fermilab NuMI beam and measures electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance at its far detector in Ash River, Minnesota. Goals of the experiment include measurements of ${\theta }_{13}$, the neutrino-mass hierarchy and the CP-violating phase. NO$\nu$A has begun to take data this year and will have its first physics results in 2014. This talk provides an overview of the scientific reach of the NO$\nu$A experiment, the status of detector construction and physics analysis and a first glimpse of far-detector data.

Presentation at the DPF 2013 Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields, Santa Cruz, California, August 13-17, 2013

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