Speaker
Ryan Patterson
(California Institute of Technology)
Description
The NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab has transitioned from construction to operation, with the 14-kton Far Detector and the 0.3-kton Near Detector now collecting neutrino data. With it's full planned exposure, NOvA will make the most precise measurements to date of the atmospheric neutrino sector, and NOvA's 810-km baseline gives it a unique sensitivity among existing experiments for measuring the neutrino mass hierarchy, a critical missing piece of the neutrino framework. I will summarize the construction and commissioning of NOvA, current analysis activities, and the physics outlook of the experiment.
Author
Ryan Patterson
(California Institute of Technology)
