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The NOvA Test Beam Experiment
NOvA Collaboration, S. Abubakar, M. A. Acero +208
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to study the neutrino mixing parameters, mass ordering, and CP violation in the lepton sector. A key component of t…
NOvA Dual-Baseline Search for Active-to-Sterile Neutrino Oscillations using Neutrino- and Antineutrino-Enriched Samples
NOvA Collaboration, S. Abubakar, M. A. Acero +185
We report a search for neutrino oscillations to sterile neutrinos in the NOvA detectors under a model with three active and one sterile neutrinos. This search simultaneously fits d…
Neutron detector response modeling in NOvA
NOvA Collaboration, S. Abubakar, M. A. Acero +194
Neutrons can present a significant challenge for neutrino experiments in which energy reconstruction is critical. With the ability to escape detection completely and with a weak co…
Joint neutrino oscillation analysis from the T2K and NOvA experiments
NOvA, T2K Collaborations, : +597
The landmark discovery that neutrinos have mass and can change type (or "flavor") as they propagate -- a process called neutrino oscillation -- has opened up a rich array of theore…
Precision measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with 10 years of data from the NOvA experiment
NOvA Collaboration, S. Abubakar, M. A. Acero +207
This Letter reports measurements of muon-neutrino disappearance and electron-neutrino appearance and the corresponding antineutrino processes between the two NOvA detectors in the…
Search for Accelerator-Produced Sub-GeV Dark Matter with the NOvA Near Detector
S. Abubakar, M. Acero, B. Acharya +184
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 ma…
Segment Geometry Optimization and Prototype Studies of a Multi-Coincidence GAGG Solar Neutrino Detector
Brooks Hartsock, Nickolas Solomey, Jonathan Folkerts +1
A GAGG detector capable of dissecting a multi-coincidence solar neutrino interaction on Ga is under development for potential space-based applications. We identify three d…
Measurement of the double-differential cross section of muon-neutrino charged-current interactions with low hadronic energy in the NOvA Near Detector
M. A. Acero, B. Acharya, P. Adamson +208
The NOvA collaboration reports cross-section measurements for charged-current interactions with low hadronic energy (maximum kinetic energy of 250 MeV for protons and 175 MeV…
Measurement of d2sigma/d|q|dEavail in charged current neutrino-nucleus interactions at <Ev> = 1.86 GeV using the NOvA Near Detector
M. A. Acero, B. Acharya, P. Adamson +205
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 transf…
Search for -Violating Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions with the NOvA Experiment
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, B. Acharya +204
This Letter reports a search for charge-parity () symmetry violating nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter using the NOvA Experiment, and examines their effec…
Method to Reduce Noise for Measurement of Be and B Solar Neutrinos on Gallium-71
Jonathan Folkerts, Nick Solomey, Brooks Hartsock +3
Gallium solar neutrino experiments have historically used radiochemical counting to determine the event rate. A detector which directly measures the ejected electron and de-excitat…
Expanding neutrino oscillation parameter measurements in NOvA using a Bayesian approach
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, B. Acharya +196
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that measures oscillations in charged-current (disappearance) and (appearance)…
A Possible Dark Matter Search Mission in Space
Nickolas Solomey, Shrey Tripathi
Direct detection of dark matter continues to elude scientists' many attempts to see it interact, and still to this day the only way we know it is there is through observed gravitat…
Monte Carlo method for constructing confidence intervals with unconstrained and constrained nuisance parameters in the NOvA experiment
M. A. Acero, B. Acharya, P. Adamson +218
Measuring observables to constrain models using maximum-likelihood estimation is fundamental to many physics experiments. Wilks' theorem provides a simple way to construct confiden…
Development of a neutrino detector capable of operating in space
Nickolas Solomey
The SOL experiment to operate a neutrino detector close to the Sun is building a small test detector to orbit the Earth to test the concept in space. This detector concept is to…
Measurement of the Nucleus Charged-Current Double-Differential Cross Section at 2.4 GeV using NOvA
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +212
The inclusive electron neutrino charged-current cross section is measured in the NOvA near detector using protons-on-target (POT) in the NuMI beam. The sample o…
Measurement of the Double-Differential Muon-neutrino Charged-Current Inclusive Cross Section in the NOvA Near Detector
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +203
We report cross-section measurements of the final-state muon kinematics for \numu charged-current interactions in the NOvA near detector using an accumulated 8.09 pr…
An Improved Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters by the NOvA Experiment
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +202
We present new , , , and oscillation measurements by the NOvA exper…
Extended search for supernova-like neutrinos in NOvA coincident with LIGO/Virgo detections
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +200
A search is performed for supernova-like neutrino interactions coincident with 76 gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration. For 40 of these events, full r…
Search for active-sterile antineutrino mixing using neutral-current interactions with the NOvA experiment
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +196
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 in…
Seasonal Variation of Multiple-Muon Cosmic Ray Air Showers Observed in the NOvA Detector on the Surface
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +194
We report the rate of cosmic ray air showers with multiplicities exceeding 15 muon tracks recorded in the NOvA Far Detector between May 2016 and May 2018. The detector is located o…
Search for Slow Magnetic Monopoles with the NOvA Detector on the Surface
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson +196
We report a search for a magnetic monopole component of the cosmic-ray flux in a 95-day exposure of the NOvA experiment's Far Detector, a 14 kt segmented liquid scintillator detect…
Adjusting Neutrino Interaction Models and Evaluating Uncertainties using NOvA Near Detector Data
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson +192
The two-detector design of the NOvA neutrino oscillation experiment, in which two functionally identical detectors are exposed to an intense neutrino beam, aids in canceling leadin…
Search for multi-messenger signals in NOvA coincident with LIGO/Virgo detections
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson +177
Using the NOvA neutrino detectors, a broad search has been performed for any signal coincident with 28 gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration between Se…