Results on Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillations from the NOvA Experiment

Authors

  • T. Nosek Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15407/ujpe64.7.613

Keywords:

neutrino oscillations, long-baseline experiment, NOvA, Fermilab

Abstract

NOvA is a two-detector long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using Fermilab’s 700 kW NuMI muon neutrino beam. With a total exposure of 8.85×1020 +12.33×1020 protons on target delivered to NuMI in the neutrino + antineutrino beam mode (78% more antineutrino data than in 2018), the experiment has made a 4.4q-significant observation of the ve appearance in a vм beam, measured oscillation parameters |Δm232|, sin2O23, and excluded most values near бCP = п/2 for the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy by more than 3q.

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Published

2019-09-17

How to Cite

Nosek, T. (2019). Results on Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillations from the NOvA Experiment. Ukrainian Journal of Physics, 64(7), 613. https://doi.org/10.15407/ujpe64.7.613

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