In February, 2015, CSU was admitted into the NOvA Collaboration. The NOvA experiment is Fermilab’s current flagship long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment utilizing an intense beam of muon-ne
utrinos produced at Fermilab. The neutrinos are directed at the 14 kton liquid-scintillator-based far detector located 810 km away in northern Minnesota (Ash River) after passing through the 300 ton near detector close to the beam origin. The far detector was completed in early 2014 and is currently taking data. The first NOvA run is expected to last 6 years. NOvA will attempt to discover the neutrino mass hierarchy and the CP violating phase angle along with many other interesting measurements.
Prof. Norm Buchanan, along with postdoctoral fellow Shih-Kai Lin, and graduate student Matt Judah will be focusing on operation of the near detector, as well as measurements made using this detector.
