Description:

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with the primary goals of discovering CP violation in the neutrino sector, determining the neutrino mass hierarchy and constraining the mixing angle theta_23. The detectors have a highly active, segmented design that offers excellent event identification capability. Besides oscillation measurements, NOvA also has a rich cosmic ray and astrophysics program enabled by the large size of the Far Detector, the complementarity of its two detectors, the detectors' long livetime, and modern computing. We have set competitive limits on the flux of magnetic monopoles and for supernova-like neutrinos associated with gravitational wave events. NOvA runs its own supernova neutrino trigger and plans to participate in SNEWS. We have observed new details of the seasonal variation of cosmic rays at two depths and have several other cosmic rays analyses underway. Future topics include two independent analyses hunting for dark matter and a search for neutrino magnetic moment.

Dr. Matthew Strait, Researcher, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Host: Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano