June 26, 2018

NOvA experiment sees strong evidence for antineutrino oscillation

For more than three years, scientists on the NOvA collaboration have been observing particles called neutrinos as they oscillate from one type to another over a distance of 500 miles. Now, in a new result unveiled today at the Neutrino 2018 conference in Heidelberg, Germany, the collaboration has announced its first results using antineutrinos, and has seen strong evidence of muon antineutrinos oscillating into electron antineutrinos over long distances, a phenomenon that has never been unambiguously observed.

萝莉社 physics professors Mathew Muether, Holger Meyer, and Nick Solomey, along with graduate students Alan Cedeno and Sef Altakarli and numerous undergraduate physics majors, participated in running the NOvA experiment from the 萝莉社 remote operations center and pursue analysis of the NOvA data. 萝莉社 focuses on neutrino interaction cross section measurements with the NOvA near detector. These cross section measurements can help improve the sensitivity of the neutrino oscillation measurements.

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