NOvA Experiment
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NOvA is a second generation, accelerator based, long-baseline neutrino oscillation
experiment, and the flag ship experiment for Fermilab's Intensity Frontier program.
NOvA is specifically designed to resolve the outstanding questions in neutrino mixing and
the structure of the neutrino sector, and features a unique "totally active" range stack
design that singles it out as one of the most sensitivity and versatile neutrinos experiments
in the world.
Over the last decade, since the discovery of finite, non-zero neutrino mass through their
oscillations over the solar and atmospheric distance and energy scales— the first
evidence of physics beyond the standard model — much has been learned
about elusive world of neutrinos. Yet much remains to be learned. NOvA is poised to make
seminal measurements of neutrino properties that will answer questions of whether
neutrinos are a source for the Matter/Anti-matter asymmetry of the universe. NOvA will
lead the US domestic particle physics program and poise Fermilab as the premier
laboratory for neutrino investigation and precision physics.
The NOvA experiments consists of two independent detectors separated by 810km. The far detector
is sited in northern Minnesota near the US/Canadian border, at Ash River, and sited 14mrad
away from the primary beam axis, in what is referred to as the "off-axis" configuration. This
choice of site location and baseline is what allows NOvA to perform precisions measurements of
&theta13 and &theta23. The far detector, at a massive 15,000 tons, will
be the largest liquid scintillator calorimeter/range stack ever build.
Construction of the NOvA experiment started in May of 2009 and will continue
for about four years.
Virginia's role on NOvA
The Virginia group is responsible for all aspects of two critical components of the NOvA
detectors and C.Dukes and A.Norman serve as the Level-3 managers for these projects. Craig Dukes
leads Readout Infrastructure and the Power Distribution System (PDS) that provides all of
the mechanical support, cooling and power to the 357,000 channels of electronics.
Andrew Norman is in charge of the
Data Acquisition (DAQ) Integration task, as wells as the Detector Controls and Monitoring tasks
which together provide the hardware/software interfaces for the NOvA experiment. Both Dukes
and Norman have been long time members of the NOvA collaboration and have been insturmental
in the design and evolution of many of the critical detector subsystem.
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| A few NOvA Talks |
Accessing Particle/Astrophysics Measurements with the NOvA Detector
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Norman, Seminar Argonne National Lab, Aug. 2009
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NOvA: The NuMI Offaxis &nue Appearance Experiment
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Norman, DPF2009, July 2009
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Power Distribution and Readout Infrastructure
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Dukes, Dept. of Energy CD-3 Review, July 2009
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NOvA Detector Controls and DAQ Integration
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Norman, Dept. of Energy CD-3 Review, July 2009
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DCM Embedded Software Systems
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Norman, NOvA Collaboration Meeting, July 2009
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Accelerator Based Neutrino Physics at Fermilab:
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Dukes, SESAPS Meeting, October 2008
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NOvA: the NuMI Offaxis νe Appearance Experiment:
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Norman, Nufact07, August 2007
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