The NOvA Experiment: Overview and Status

Understand

The NO$\nu$A experiment is a long-baseline accelerator based neutrino oscillation experiment.

• It uses the upgraded Fermilab NuMI beam and measures electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance at its far detector in Ash River, Minnesota.
• Goals of the experiment include measurements of $\theta_{13}$, the neutrino-mass hierarchy and the CP-violating phase.
• NO$\nu$A has begun to take data this year and will have its first physics results in 2014.