IOP Publishing, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1(1219), p. 012021, 2019
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1219/1/012021
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Abstract Using a beam made (mainly) by muon neutrinos traveling through the earth, the NOvA Experiment looks for the appearance of electron neutrinos, a transformation explained by the quantum-mechanical phenomenon known as neutrino oscillation. NOvA uses two neutrino detectors located 14.6 mrad off-axis from the main beam direction. The first (Near) detector stands at a distance of 1 km from the neutrino source, while the second (Far) one is at 810 km. Traveling from the Near Detector to the Far Detector, muon neutrinos can morph into electron neutrinos with a probability depending upon the parameters Δ m 32 2 and sin2 θ 23, among others. By comparing the observed number of νµ and νe events at the Far Detector with the expected number of events predicted by a 3-neutrino oscillation model, NOvA is able to measure these parameters and help to improve our understanding about neutrinos. After a brief introduction to the physics of neutrinos and a presentation of the experiment, in this talk the most recent results obtained by NOvA through the study of muon neutrino oscillations νµ → νµ and νµ → νe , are shown. The oscillation parameters are found to be Δ m 32 2 = 2.44 × 10 − 3 eV 2 and sin2 θ 23 = 0.56.