NOvA consists of two detectors, a far detector sited in northern Minnesota, and a near detector on site at Fermilab. The far detector, at 15,000 tons, will be one of the largest ever built. Construction started in 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: the Power Distribution System (PDS) that provides power to all of the electronics, and the Detector Control and Monitoring System.

Mu2e was given Stage I approval by Fermilab in November, 2008. We are now designing the detector and beamline in detail, and working toward a bottom's up cost estimate. It is anticipated that construction would start in 2011.

Virginia's role on Mu2e The Virginia group is involved in the electromagnetic calorimeter. Dukes is head of the Institutional Board and was editor of the experimental proposal.

The DØ experiment has been a world leader in collider physics. DØ operates at the energy frontier, colliding a proton beam with an anti-proton beam at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV (trillion electron volts) at Fermilab's Tevatron accellerator. DØ will continue to run and collect data through at least the end of 2011. The almost six fb^{-1} of data already recorded has allowed researchers to investigate the most pressing topics in modern physics, including searchs for the Higgs boson, searchs for signs of Super Symmetry, observation of the top quark, discovery of new baryons with heavy quark content, and precision measurements from the decay of heavy B-mesons.

The University of Virginia High energy group in heavily involved in both the operations of the experiment and the analysis of the data sets currently collected. The research goals of the Virginia group are focused on two areas of investigation that tie in to our work on NOvA and Mu2E.

Within the B-meson systems (the class particles consisting of a quark and anti-quark pair, where one of the quarks is heavy "bottom" flavor quark) we are looking at the class of possible decays of the B_s (a bottom + strange quark state) where a dilepton state is possible. These types of decays and in particular B_s -> mu mu and B_s -> mu e allow us to probe with extreme precision for matter/anti-mater asymmetries in the CKM mixing matrix through the measurement of Flavor Changing Weak Neutral currents (FCNC) and also for Lepton Family Number Violation (LFV) at can arise naturally through contributions from super symmetry to the B_s -> mu e decay mode. In addtion we are investigating a series of other related decay modes bottom-strange meson which isolate specific type of FCNC and LFV currents. The program of investigation is handled through our Rare B Physics working group, and has openings for Virginia graduate student to pursue their doctoral research.

The CP violation analysis showed no evidence of any matter-antimatter asymmetry at the 10^-4 level, a two order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity. This implies that there are probably no exotic sources of CP violation in hyperon decays. Among other results we have observed the rarest baryon decay ever, Σ → pμ μ, and find hints that it may proceed via a hitherto unknown intermediate state that some have suggested could be the sgoldstino, a supersymmetric particle, or perhaps the Higgs.

Virginia's role on HyperCP The Virginia group played a seminal role in the fabrication of the spectrometer, designing and building: the upstream wire chambers, the hadronic calorimeter, the proton hodoscope, the triggers, and all 20,000 channels of preamplifiers. All of the CP violation analyses were done by Virginia, and indeed all of the precision measurements.