Title
Muon Neutrino Contained Disappearance in NOvA
Abstract
The NOvA experiment studies neutrino oscillations in the NuMI neutrino beam from Fermilab. NOvA consists of two liquid scintillator tracking calorimeters placed 14 milliradians off-axis from the beam and 810 km apart. The NOvA experiment started taking data in 2014. This thesis establishes the neutrino energy estimation procedures used to determine the oscillation parameters $\sin^2 \theta_{23}$ and $\Delta m_{32}^2$.
Description
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. September 2015. Major: Physics. Advisor: Kenneth Heller. 1 computer file (PDF); xiv 500 pages.
Suggested Citation
Lein, Susan.
(2015).
Muon Neutrino Contained Disappearance in NOvA.
Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy,
https://hdl.handle.net/11299/175526.