NPA Seminar: Erica Smith, Indiana University, "Recent Results from the NOvA Experiment"

Thursday Oct 31, 2019, 12:00 PM → 1:00 PM US/Eastern

WL 216

The discovery of neutrino mass in 1998 led to a global effort to understand their properties by studying neutrino oscillations. We have learned much since then, but there are still many open questions: Which neutrino is heaviest? Do neutrino properties exhibit symmetries? Is there more to the story than the standard three flavor oscillation framework? Can neutrinos explain why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe? The NOvA experiment aims to answer these questions by sending neutrino and antineutrino beams produced at Fermi- lab 810 km to a 14 kiloton detector located in northern Minnesota. In this talk, I will intro- duce neutrinos and the questions surrounding them, discuss the design of the NOvA experi- ment, and summarize the most recent neutrino and antineutrino results from the experiment.

npa-erica smith-poster - 10312019.pdf