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    Efficiency of the horizontal hodoscope

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    Measurement of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent π0π^0 production in the NOvA near detector

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    © 2020 authors. Open access. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.. WSU authors: Meyer, Holger; Muether, Mathew; Solomey, Nickolas. The complete list includes: Acero, M.A.; Adamson, P.; Aliaga, L.; Alion, T.; Allakhverdian, V.; Anfimov, N.; Antoshkin, A.; Arrieta-Diaz, E.; Aurisano, A.; Back, A.; Backhouse, C.; Baird, M.; Balashov, N.; Baldi, P.; Bambah, B.A.; Basher, S.; Bays, K.; Behera, B.; Bending, S.; Bernstein, R.; Bhatnagar, V.; Bhuyan, B.; Bian, J.; Blair, J.; Booth, A.C.; Bolshakova, A.; Bour, P.; Bromberg, C.; Buchanan, N.; Butkevich, A.; Campbell, M.; Carroll, T.J.; Catano-Mur, E.; Childress, S.; Choudhary, B.C.; Chowdhury, B.; Coan, T.E.; Colo, M.; Corwin, L.; Cremonesi, L.; Cronin-Hennessy, D.; Davies, G.S.; Derwent, P.F.; Ding, P.; Djurcic, Z.; Doyle, D.; Dukes, E.C.; Dung, P.; Duyang, H.; Edayath, S.; Ehrlich, R.; Feldman, G.J.; Flanagan, W.; Frank, M.J.; Gallagher, H.R.; Gandrajula, R.; Gao, F.; Germani, S.; Giri, A.; Gomes, R.A.; Goodman, M.C.; Grichine, V.; Groh, M.; Group, R.; Guo, B.; Habig, A.; Hakl, F.; Hartnell, J.; Hatcher, R.; Hatzikoutelis, A.; Heller, K.; Himmel, A.; Holin, A.; Howard, B.; Huang, J.; Hylen, J.; Jediny, F.; Johnson, C.; Judah, M.; Kakorin, I.; Kalra, D.; Kaplan, D.M.; Keloth, R.; Klimov, O.; Koerner, L.W.; Kolupaeva, L.; Kotelnikov, S.; Kreymer, A.; Kullenberg, C.; Kumar, A.; Kuruppu, C.D.; Kus, V.; Lackey, T.; Lang, K.; Lin, S.; Lokajicek, M.; Lozier, J.; Luchuk, S.; Maan, K.; Magill, S.; Mann, W.A.; Marshak, M.L.; Matveev, V.; Méndez, D.P.; Messier, M.D.; Meyer, H.; Miao, T.; Miller, W.H.; Mishra, S.R.; Mislivec, A.; Mohanta, R.; Moren, A.; Mualem, L.; Muether, M.; Mulder, K.; Mufson, S.; Murphy, R.; Musser, J.; Naples, D.; Nayak, N.; Nelson, J.K.; Nichol, R.; Niner, E.; Norman, A.; Nosek, T.; Oksuzian, Y.; Olshevskiy, A.; Olson, T.; Paley, J.; Patterson, R.B.; Pawloski, G.; Pershey, D.; Petrova, O.; Petti, R.; Plunkett, R.K.; Potukuchi, B.; Principato, C.; Psihas, F.; Raj, V.; Radovic, A.; Rameika, R.A.; Rebel, B.; Rojas, P.; Ryabov, V.; Sachdev, K.; Samoylov, O.; Sanchez, M.C.; Seong, I.S.; Shanahan, P.; Sheshukov, A.; Singh, P.; Singh, V.; Smith, E.; Smolik, J.; Snopok, P.; Solomey, N.; Song, E.; Sousa, A.; Soustruznik, K.; Strait, M.; Suter, L.; Talaga, R.L.; Tas, P.; Thayyullathil, R.B.; Thomas, J.; Tiras, E.; Torbunov, D.; Tripathi, J.; Tsaris, A.; Torun, Y.; Urheim, J.; Vahle, P.; Vasel, J.; Vinton, L.; Vokac, P.; Vrba, T.; Wang, B.; Warburton, T.K.; Wetstein, M.; While, M.; Whittington, D.; Wojcicki, S.G.; Wolcott, J.; Yadav, N.; Yallappa Dombara, A.; Yang, S.; Yonehara, K.; Yu, S.; Zalesak, J.; Zamorano, B.; Zwaska, R.l; NOvA Collaboration.The cross section of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent π0\pi^0 production on a carbon-dominated target is measured in the NOvA near detector. This measurement uses a narrow-band neutrino beam with an average neutrino energy of 2.7\,GeV, which is of interest to ongoing and future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The measured flux-averaged cross section is σ=13.8±0.9(stat)±2.3(syst)×1040cm2/nucleus\sigma = 13.8\pm0.9 (\text{stat})\pm2.3 (\text{syst}) \times 10^{-40}\,\text{cm}^2/\text{nucleus} , consistent with model prediction. This result is the most precise measurement of neutral-current coherent π0\pi^0 production in the few-GeV neutrino energy region.Document was prepared by the NOvA Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP user facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Department of Science and Technology, India; the European Research Council; the MSMT CR, GA UK, Czech Republic; the RAS, RFBR, RMES, RSF, and BASIS Foundation, Russia; CNPq and FAPEG, Brazil; STFC and the Royal Society, United Kingdom; and the state and University of Minnesota

    Search for multimessenger signals in NOvA coincident with LIGO/Virgo detections

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    © 2020 Authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. WSU authors: Meyer, Holger; Muether, Mathew; Solomey, Nickolas. The complete list includes M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga, T. Alion, V. Allakhverdian, N. Anfimov, A. Antoshkin, L. Asquith, A. Aurisano, A. Back, C. Backhouse, M. Baird, N. Balashov, P. Baldi, B. A. Bambah, S. Bashar, K. Bays, S. Bending, R. Bernstein, V. Bhatnagar, B. Bhuyan, J. Bian, J. Blair, A. C. Booth, P. Bour, C. Bromberg, N. Buchanan, A. Butkevich, S. Calvez, T. J. Carroll, E. Catano-Mur, S. Childress, B. C. Choudhary, T. E. Coan, M. Colo, L. Corwin, L. Cremonesi, G. S. Davies, P. F. Derwent, R. Dharmapalan, P. Ding, Z. Djurcic, D. Doyle, E. C. Dukes, P. Dung, H. Duyang, S. Edayath, R. Ehrlich, G. J. Feldman, P. Filip, W. Flanagan, M. J. Frank, H. R. Gallagher, R. Gandrajula, F. Gao, S. Germani, A. Giri, R. A. Gomes, M. C. Goodman, V. Grichine, M. Groh, R. Group, B. Guo, A. Habig, F. Hakl, J. Hartnell, R. Hatcher, K. Heller, J. Hewes, A. Himmel, A. Holin, J. Huang, J. Hylen, F. Jediny, C. Johnson, M. Judah, I. Kakorin, D. Kalra, D. M. Kaplan, R. Keloth, O. Klimov, L. W. Koerner, L. Kolupaeva, S. Kotelnikov, Ch. Kullenberg, A. Kumar, C. D. Kuruppu, V. Kus, T. Lackey, K. Lang, L. Li, S. Lin, M. Lokajicek, S. Luchuk, S. Magill, W. A. Mann, M. L. Marshak, M. Martine-Casales, V. Matveev, B. Mayes, D. P. Méndez, M. D. Messier, H. Meyer, T. Miao, W. H. Miller, S. R. Mishra, A. Mislivec, R. Mohanta, A. Moren, L. Mualem, M. Muether, S. Mufson, K. Mulder, R. Murphy, J. Musser, D. Naples, N. Nayak, J. K. Nelson, R. Nichol, E. Niner, A. Norman, A. Norrick, T. Nosek, A. Olshevskiy, T. Olson, J. Paley, R. B. Patterson, G. Pawloski, O. Petrova, R. Petti, R. K. Plunkett, A. Rafique, F. Psihas, V. Raj4, B. Rebel, P. Rojas, V. Ryabov, O. Samoylov, M. C. Sanchez, S. Sánchez Falero, P. Shanahan, A. Sheshukov, P. Singh, V. Singh, E. Smith, J. Smolik, P. Snopok, N. Solomey, A. Sousa, K. Soustruznik, M. Strait,*, L. Suter, A. Sutton, R. L. Talaga, B. Tapia Oregui, P. Tas, R. B. Thayyullathil, J. Thomas, E. Tiras, D. Torbunov, J. Tripathi, Y. Torun, J. Urheim, P. Vahle, J. Vasel, P. Vokac, T. Vrba, M. Wallbank, T. K. Warburton, M. Wetstein, D. Whittington, S. G. Wojcicki, J. Wolcott, A. Yallappa Dombara, K. Yonehara, S. Yu, Y. Yu, S. Zadorozhnyy, J. Zalesak, Y. Zhang, and R. Zwaska (NOvA Collaboration).Using the NOvA neutrino detectors, a broad search has been performed for any signal coincident with 28 gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration between September 2015 and July 2019. For all of these events, NOvA is sensitive to possible arrival of neutrinos and cosmic rays of GeV and higher energies. For five (seven) events in the NOvA Far (Near) Detector, timely public alerts from the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration allowed recording of MeV-scale events. No signal candidates were found.This document was prepared by the NOvA Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, High Energy Physics(HEP) User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359

    Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the NOvA Near Detector

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    Click on the DOI link to access the article (may not be free). WSU authors: Altakarli, S.; Cedeno, Alan J.; Meyer, Holger; Solomey, Nickolas. The complete list includes: Acero, M.A., Adamson, P.l, Aliaga, L., Alion, T., Allakhverdian, V., Altakarli, S., Anfimov, N., Antoshkin, A., Aurisano, A.f, Back, A., Backhouse, C., Baird, M., Balashov, N., Baldi, P., Bambah, B.A., Bashar, S., Bays, K., Bending, S., Bernstein, R., Bhatnagar, V., Bhuyan, B., Bian, J., Blair, J., Booth, A.C., Bour, P., Bromberg, C., Buchanan, N., Butkevich, A., Calvez, S., Campbell, M., Carroll, T.J., Catano-Mur, E., Cedeno, A., Childress, S., Choudhary, B.C., Chowdhury, B., Coan, T.E., Colo, M., Corwin, L., Cremonesi, L., Davies, G.S., Derwent, P.F., Ding, P., Djurcic, Z., Doyle, D., Dukes, E.C., Duyang, H., Edayath, S., Ehrlich, R., Feldman, G.J., Filip, P., Flanagan, W., Frank, M.J., Gallagher, H.R., Gandrajula, R., Gao, F., Germani, S., Giri, A., Gomes, R.A., Goodman, M.C., Grichine, V., Groh, M., Group, R., Guo, B., Habig, A., Hakl, F., Hartnell, J., Hatcher, R., Hatzikoutelis, A., Heller, K., Hewes, J., Himmel, A., Holin, A., Howard, B., Huang, J., Hylen, J., Jediny, F., Johnson, C., Judah, M., Kakorin, I., Kalra, D., Kaplan, D.M., Keloth, R., Klimov, O., Koerner, L.W., Kolupaeva, L., Kotelnikov, S., Kreymer, A., Kulenberg, C., Kumar, A., Kuruppu, C.D., Kus, V., Lackey, T., Lang, K., Lin, S., Lokajicek, M., Lozier, J., Luchuk, S., Magill, S., Mann, W.A., Marshak, M.L., Matveev, V., Méndez, D.P., Messier, M.D., Meyer, H., Miao, T., Miller, W.H., Mishra, S.R., Mislivec, A., Mohanta, R., Moren, A., Mualem, L., Muether, M., Mufson, S., Mulder, K., Murphy, R., Musser, J., Naples, D., Nayak, N., Nelson, J.K., Nichol, R., Nikseresht, G., Niner, E., Norman, A., Nosek, T., Olshevskiy, A., Olson, T., Paley, J., Patterson, R.B., Pawloski, G., Petrova, O., Petti, R., Phan, D.D., Plunkett, R.K., Potukuchi, B., Principato, C., Psihas, F., Raj, V., Rameika, R.A., Rebel, B., Rojas, P., Ryabov, V., Samoylov, O., Sanchez, M.C., Schreiner, P., Seong, I.S., Shanahan, P., Sheshukov, A., Singh, P., Singh, V., Smith, E., Smolik, J., Snopok, P., Solomey, N., Song, E., Sousa, A., Soustruznik, K., Strait, M., Suter, L., Sutton, A., Talaga, R.L., Tas, P., Thayyullathil, R.B., Thomas, J., Tiras, E., Tognini, S.C., Torbunov, D., Tripathi, J., Tsaris, A., Torun, Y., Urheim, J., Vahle, P., Vasel, J., Vinton, L., Vokac, P., Vrba, T., Wallbank, M., Wang, B., Warburton, T.K., Wetstein, M., While, M., Whittington, D., Wojcicki, S.G., Wolcott, J., Yadav, N., Yallappa Dombara, A., Yonehara, K., Yu, S., Zadorozhnyy, S., Zalesak, J., Zwaska, R.Using two years of data from the NOvA Near Detector at Fermilab, we report a seasonal variation of cosmic ray induced multiple-muon (Nμ2)(N\mu\ge2) event rates which has an opposite phase to the seasonal variation in the atmospheric temperature. The strength of the seasonal multiple-muon variation is shown to increase as a function of the muon multiplicity. However, no significant dependence of the strength of the seasonal variation of the multiple-muon variation is seen as a function of the muon zenith angle, or the spatial or angular separation between the correlated muons.This document was prepared by the NOvA collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Department of Science and Technology, India; the European Research Council; the MSMT CR, GA UK, Czech Republic; the RAS, RFBR, Russian Ministry of Education and Science, RSF, and BASIS Foundation, Russia; CNPq and FAPEG, Brazil; STFC, and the Royal Society, United Kingdom; and the state and University of Minnesota

    Constraints on oscillation parameters from νe\nu_e appearance and νμ\nu_\mu disappearance in NOvA

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    Click on the DOI link to access the article (may not be free). WSU authors: Meyer, H.; Muether, M.; Solomey, N. The complete list includes: P. Adamson, L. Aliaga, D. Ambrose, N. Anfimov, A. Antoshkin, E. Arrieta-Diaz, K. Augsten, A. Aurisano, C. Backhouse, M. Baird, B. A. Bambah, K. Bays, B. Behera, S. Bending, R. Bernstein, V. Bhatnagar, B. Bhuyan, J. Bian, T. Blackburn, A. Bolshakova, C. Bromberg, J. Brown, G. Brunetti, N. Buchanan, A. Butkevich, V. Bychkov, M. Campbell, E. Catano-Mur, S. Childress, B. C. Choudhary, B. Chowdhury, T. E. Coan, J. A. B. Coelho, M. Colo, J. Cooper, L. Corwin, L. Cremonesi, D. Cronin-Hennessy, G. S. Davies, J. P. Davies, P. F. Derwent, R. Dharmapalan, P. Ding, Z. Djurcic, E. C. Dukes, H. Duyang, S. Edayath, R. Ehrlich, G. J. Feldman, M. J. Frank, M. Gabrielyan, H. R. Gallagher, S. Germani, T. Ghosh, A. Giri, R. A. Gomes, M. C. Goodman, V. Grichine, R. Group, D. Grover, B. Guo, A. Habig, J. Hartnell, R. Hatcher, A. Hatzikoutelis, K. Heller, A. Himmel, A. Holin, J. Hylen, F. Jediny, M. Judah, G. K. Kafka, D. Kalra, S. M. S. Kasahara, S. Kasetti, R. Keloth, L. Kolupaeva, S. Kotelnikov, I. Kourbanis, A. Kreymer, A. Kumar, S. Kurbanov, K. Lang, W. M. Lee, S. Lin, J. Liu, M. Lokajicek, J. Lozier, S. Luchuk, K. Maan, S. Magill, W. A. Mann, M. L. Marshak, K. Matera, V. Matveev, D. P. Méndez, M. D. Messier, H. Meyer, T. Miao, W. H. Miller, S. R. Mishra, R. Mohanta, A. Moren, L. Mualem, M. Muether, S. Mufson, R. Murphy, J. Musser, J. K. Nelson, R. Nichol, E. Niner, A. Norman, T. Nosek, Y. Oksuzian, A. Olshevskiy, T. Olson, J. Paley, P. Pandey, R. B. Patterson, G. Pawloski, D. Pershey, O. Petrova, R. Petti, S. Phan-Budd, R. K. Plunkett, R. Poling, B. Potukuchi, C. Principato, F. Psihas, A. Radovic, R. A. Rameika, B. Rebel, B. Reed, D. Rocco, P. Rojas, V. Ryabov, K. Sachdev, P. Sail, O. Samoylov, M. C. Sanchez, R. Schroeter, J. Sepulveda-Quiroz, P. Shanahan, A. Sheshukov, J. Singh, J. Singh, P. Singh, V. Singh, J. Smolik, N. Solomey, E. Song, A. Sousa, K. Soustruznik, M. Strait, L. Suter, R. L. Talaga, M. C. Tamsett, P. Tas, R. B. Thayyullathil, J. Thomas, X. Tian, S. C. Tognini, J. Tripathi, A. Tsaris, J. Urheim, P. Vahle, J. Vasel, L. Vinton, A. Vold, T. Vrba, B. Wang, M. Wetstein, D. Whittington, S. G. Wojcicki, J. Wolcott, N. Yadav, S. Yang, J. Zalesak, B. Zamorano, and R. Zwaska.Preprint is available in SOAR.Results are reported from an improved measurement of νμνe\nu_\mu \rightarrow \nu_e transitions by the NOvA experiment. Using an exposure equivalent to 6.05×10206.05\times10^{20} protons-on-target 33 νe\nu_e candidates were observed with a background of 8.2±0.8 (syst.). Combined with the latest NOvA νμ\nu_\mu disappearance data and external constraints from reactor experiments on sin22θ13\sin^22\theta_{13} the hypothesis of inverted mass hierarchy with θ23\theta_{23}, in the lower octant is disfavored at greater than 93%93\% C.L. for all values of δCP\delta_{CP}.U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Department of Science and Technology, India; the European Research Council; the MSMT CR, GA UK, Czech Republic; the RAS, RMES, and RFBR, Russia; CNPq and FAPEG, Brazil; and the State and University of Minnesota. We are grateful for the contributions of the staffs at the University of Minnesota module assembly facility and Ash River Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and Fermilab. Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. De-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. DOE

    New constraints on oscillation parameters from νeν_e appearance and νμν_μ disappearance in the NOvA experiment

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    Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. WSU authors: Cedeno, Alan; Meyer, Holger; Muether, Mathew; Solomey, Nickolas. The complete list includes: Acero, M. A.; Adamson, P.; Aliaga, L.; Alion, T.; Allakhverdian, V.; Anfimov, N.; Antoshkin, A.; Arrieta-Diaz, E.; Aurisano, A.; Back, A.; Backhouse, C.; Baird, M.; Balashov, N.; Bambah, B. A.; Bays, K.; Behera, B.; Bending, S.; Bernstein, R.; Bhatnagar, V.; Bhuyan, B.; Bian, J.; Blackburn, T.; Blair, J.; Bolshakova, A.; Bour, P.; Bromberg, C.; Brown, J.; Buchanan, N.; Butkevich, A.; Bychkov, V.; Campbell, M.; Carroll, T. J.; Catano-Mur, E.; Cedeno, A.; Childress, S.; Choudhary, B. C.; Chowdhury, B.; Coan, T. E.; Colo, M.; Cooper, J.; Corwin, L.; Cremonesi, L.; Cronin-Hennessy, D.; Davies, G. S.; Davies, J. P.; De Rijck, S.; Derwent, P. F.; Dharmapalan, R.; Ding, P.; Djurcic, Z.; Dukes, E. C.; Dung, P.; Duyang, H.; Edayath, S.; Ehrlich, R.; Feldman, G. J.; Frank, M. J.; Gallagher, H. R.; Gandrajula, R.; Gao, F.; Germani, S.; Giri, A.; Gomes, R. A.; Goodman, M. C.; Grichine, V.; Groh, M.; Group, R.; Grover, D.; Guo, B.; Habig, A.; Hakl, F.; Hartnell, J.; Hatcher, R.; Hatzikoutelis, A.; Heller, K.; Himmel, A.; Holin, A.; Howard, B.; Huang, J.; Hylen, J.; Jediny, F.; Judah, M.; Kakorin, I.; Kalra, D.; Kaplan, D. M.; Keloth, R.; Klimov, O.; Koerner, L. W.; Kolupaeva, L.; Kotelnikov, S.; Kourbanis, I.; Kreymer, A.; Kulenberg, Ch.; Kumar, A.; Kuruppu, C.; Kus, V.; Lackey, T.; Lang, K.; Lin, S.; Lokajicek, M.; Lozier, J.; Luchuk, S.; Maan, K.; Magill, S.; Mann, W. A.; Marshak, M. L.; Matveev, V.; Mendez, D. P.; Messier, M. D.; Meyer, H.; Miao, T.; Miller, W. H.; Mishra, S. R.; Mislivec, A.; Mohanta, R.; Moren, A.; Mualem, L.; Muether, M.; Mufson, S.; Murphy, R.; Musser, J.; Naples, D.; Nayak, N.; Nelson, J. K.; Nichol, R.; Niner, E.; Norman, A.; Nosek, T.; Oksuzian, Y.; Olshevskiy, A.; Olson, T.; Paley, J.; Patterson, R. B.; Pawloski, G.; Pershey, D.; Petrova, O.; Petti, R.; Phan-Budd, S.; Plunkett, R. K.; Potukuchi, B.; Principato, C.; Psihas, F.; Radovic, A.; Rameika, R. A.; Rebel, B.; Rojas, P.; Ryabov, V.; Sachdev, K.; Samoylov, O.; Sanchez, M. C.; Sepulveda-Quiroz, J.; Shanahan, P.; Sheshukov, A.; Singh, P.; Singh, V.; Smith, E.; Smolik, J.; Snopok, P.; Solomey, N.; Song, E.; Sousa, A.; Soustruznik, K.; Strait, M.; Suter, L.; Talaga, R. L.; Tas, P.; Thayyullathil, R. B.; Thomas, J.; Tiras, E.; Tognini, S. C.; Torbunov, D.; Tripathi, J.; Tsaris, A.; Torun, Y.; Urheim, J.; Vahle, P.; Vasel, J.; Vinton, L.; Vokac, P.; Vold, A.; Vrba, T.; Wang, B.; Warburton, T. K.; Wetstein, M.; Whittington, D.; Wojcicki, S. G.; Wolcott, J.; Yang, S.; Yu, S.; Zalesak, J.; Zamorano, B.; Zwaska, R.We present updated results from the NOvA experiment for νμνμ\nu_\mu\rightarrow\nu_\mu and νμνe\nu_\mu\rightarrow\nu_e oscillations from an exposure of 8.85×10208.85\times10^{20} protons on target, which represents an increase of 46% compared to our previous publication. The results utilize significant improvements in both the simulations and analysis of the data. A joint fit to the data for νμ\nu_\mu disappearance and νe\nu_e appearance gives the best fit point as normal mass hierarchy, Δm322=2.44×103eV2/c4\Delta m^2_{32} = 2.44\times 10^{-3}{{\rm eV}^2}/c^4, sin2θ23=0.56\sin^2\theta_{23} = 0.56, and δCP=1.21π\delta_{CP} = 1.21\pi. The 68.3% confidence intervals in the normal mass hierarchy are Δm322[2.37,2.52]×103eV2/c4\Delta m^2_{32} \in [2.37,2.52]\times 10^{-3}{{\rm eV}^2}/c^4 sin2θ23[0.43,0.51][0.52,0.60]\sin^2\theta_{23} \in [0.43,0.51] \cup [0.52,0.60], and δCP[0,0.12π][0.91π,2π]\delta_{CP} \in [0,0.12\pi] \cup [0.91\pi,2\pi] The inverted mass hierarchy is disfavored at the 95% confidence level for all choices of the other oscillation parameters.U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Department of Science and Technology, India; the European Research Council; the MSMT CR, GA UK, Czech Republic; the RAS, RFBR, RMES, RSF, and BASIS Foundation, Russia; CNPq and FAPEG, Brazil; and the state and University of Minnesota. We are grateful for the contributions of the staffs at the University of Minnesota module assembly facility and Ash River Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and Fermilab. Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. DOE

    Long-baseline neutrino oscillation physics potential of the DUNE experiment: DUNE Collaboration

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    © 2020, The Author(s). Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. WSU authors: Meyer, H.; Muether, M.; Solomey, N. 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    First measurement of muon-neutrino disappearance in NOvA

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    Click on the DOI link to access the article (may not be free). WSU authors: Meyer, H.; Muether, M. and N. Solomey. The complete list includes over 200 authors: Adamson, P.; Ader, C.; Andrews, M.; Anfimov, N.; Anghel, I.; Arms, K.; Arrieta-Diaz, E.; Aurisano, A.; Ayres, D. S.; Backhouse, C.; Baird, M.; Bambah, B. A.; Bays, K.; Bernstein, R.; Betancourt, M.; Bhatnagar, V.; Bhuyan, B.; Bian, J.; Biery, K.; Blackburn, T.; Bocean, V.; Bogert, D.; Bolshakova, A.; Bowden, M.; Bower, C.; Broemmelsiek, D.; Bromberg, C.; Brunetti, G.; Bu, X.; Butkevich, A.; Capista, D.; Catano-Mur, E.; Chase, T. R.; Childress, S.; Choudhary, B. C.; Chowdhury, B.; Coan, T. E.; Coelho, J. A. B.; Colo, M.; Cooper, J.; Corwin, L.; Cronin-Hennessy, D.; Cunningham, A.; Davies, G. S.; Davies, J. P.; Del Tutto, M.; Derwent, P. F.; Deepthi, K. N.; Demuth, D.; Desai, S.; Deuerling, G.; Devan, A.; Dey, J.; Dharmapalan, R.; Ding, P.; Dixon, S.; Djurcic, Z.; Dukes, E. C.; Duyang, H.; Ehrlich, R.; Feldman, G. J.; Felt, N.; Fenyves, E. J.; Flumerfelt, E.; Foulkes, S.; Frank, M. J.; Freeman, W.; Gabrielyan, M.; Gallagher, H. R.; Gebhard, M.; Ghosh, T.; Gilbert, W.; Giri, A.; Goadhouse, S.; Gomes, R. A.; Goodenough, L.; Goodman, M. C.; Grichine, V.; Grossman, N.; Group, R.; Grudzinski, J.; Guarino, V.; Guo, B.; Habig, A.; Handler, T.; Hartnell, J.; Hatcher, R.; Hatzikoutelis, A.; Heller, K.; Howcroft, C.; Huang, J.; Huang, X.; Hylen, J.; Ishitsuka, M.; Jediny, F.; Jensen, C.; Jensen, D.; Johnson, C.; Jostlein, H.; Kafka, G. K.; Kamyshkov, Y.; Kasahara, S. M. S.; Kasetti, S.; Kephart, K.; Koizumi, G.; Kotelnikov, S.; Kourbanis, I.; Krahn, Z.; Kravtsov, V.; Kreymer, A.; Kulenberg, Ch.; Kumar, A.; Kutnink, T.; Kwarciancy, R.; Kwong, J.; Lang, K.; Lee, A.; Lee, W. M.; Lee, K.; Lein, S.; Liu, J.; Lokajicek, M.; Lozier, J.; Lu, Q.; Lucas, P.; Luchuk, S.; Lukens, P.; Lukhanin, G.; Magill, S.; Maan, K.; Mann, W. A.; Marshak, M. L.; Martens, M.; Martincik, J.; Mason, P.; Matera, K.; Mathis, M.; Matveev, V.; Mayer, N.; McCluskey, E.; Mehdiyev, R.; Merritt, H.; Messier, M. D.; Meyer, H.; Miao, T.; Michael, D.; Mikheyev, S. P.; Miller, W. H.; Mishra, S. R.; Mohanta, R.; Moren, A.; Mualem, L.; Muether, M.; Mufson, S.; Musser, J.; Newman, H. B.; Nelson, J. K.; Niner, E.; Norman, A.; Nowak, J.; Oksuzian, Y.; Olshevskiy, A.; Oliver, J.; Olson, T.; Paley, J.; Pandey, P.; Para, A.; Patterson, R. B.; Pawloski, G.; Pearson, N.; Perevalov, D.; Pershey, D.; Peterson, E.; Petti, R.; Phan-Budd, S.; Piccoli, L.; Pla-Dalmau, A.; Plunkett, R. K.; Poling, R.; Potukuchi, B.; Psihas, F.; Pushka, D.; Qiu, X.; Raddatz, N.; Radovic, A.; Rameika, R. A.; Ray, R.; Rebel, B.; Rechenmacher, R.; Reed, B.; Reilly, R.; Rocco, D.; Rodkin, D.; Ruddick, K.; Rusack, R.; Ryabov, V.; Sachdev, K.; Sahijpal, S.; Sahoo, H.; Samoylov, O.; Sanchez, M. C.; Saoulidou, N.; Schlabach, P.; Schneps, J.; Schroeter, R.; Sepulveda-Quiroz, J.; Shanahan, P.; Sherwood, B.; Sheshukov, A.; Singh, J.; Singh, V.; Smith, A.; Smith, D.; Smolik, J.; Solomey, N.; Sotnikov, A.; Sousa, A.; Soustruznik, K.; Stenkin, Y.; Strait, M.; Suter, L.; Talaga, R. L.; Tamsett, M. C.; Tariq, S.; Tas, P.; Tesarek, R. J.; Thayyullathil, R. B.; Thomsen, K.; Tian, X.; Tognini, S. C.; Toner, R.; Trevor, J.; Tzanakos, G.; Urheim, J.; Vahle, P.; Valerio, L.; Vinton, L.; Vrba, T.; Waldron, A. V.; Wang, B.; Wang, Z.; Weber, A.; Wehmann, A.; Whittington, D.; Wilcer, N.; Wildberger, R.; Wildman, D.; Williams, K.; Wojcicki, S. G.; Wood, K.; Xiao, M.; Xin, T.; Yadav, N.; Yang, S.; Zadorozhnyy, S.; Zalesak, J.; Zamorano, B.; Zhao, A.; Zirnstein, J.; Zwaska, R.This paper reports the first measurement using the NOvA detectors of νμ\nu_\mu disappearance in a νμ\nu_\mu beam. The analysis uses a 14 kton-equivalent exposure of 2.74×10202.74 \times 10^{20} protons-on-target from the Fermilab NuMI beam. Assuming the normal neutrino mass hierarchy, we measure Δm322=(2.520.18+0.20)×103 \Delta m^{2}_{32}=(2.52^{+0.20}_{-0.18})\times 10^{-3} eV2^{2} and sin2θ23\sin^2\theta_{23} in the range 0.38-0.65, both at the 68% confidence level, with two statistically-degenerate best fit points at sin2θ23=\sin^2\theta_{23} = and 0.60. Results for the inverted mass hierarchy are also presented.U.S. Department of Energy (DOE); the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Department of Science and Technology, India; the European Research Council; the MSMT CR, Czech Republic; the RAS, RMES, and RFBR, Russia; CNPq and FAPEG, Brazil; and the State and University of Minnesota. We are grateful for the contributions of the staffs of the University of Minnesota module assembly facility and NOvA FD Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and Fermilab. Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. De-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. DOE

    First measurement of electron neutrino appearance in NOvA

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