FNAL-E-0929()
NOvA: Numi off-axis Neutrino Appearance Experiment
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- Proposed: Mar 15, 2004,
- Started: Oct 6, 2014,
- Completed: 9999
NOvA Collaboration
Fermilab’s accelerator complex produces the most intense neutrino beam in the world and sends it from Fermilab straight through the earth to northern Minnesota—no tunnel necessary. Moving at close to the speed of light, the neutrinos travel the 500-mile distance in less than three milliseconds. The NOνA collaboration is constructing a neutrino detector in a new laboratory in Ash River, Minnesota. The scientists will use Fermilab’s neutrino beam to explore the strange properties of neutrinos, especially the elusive transition of muon neutrinos into electron neutrinos. The experiment will help answer some of the most important scientific questions about neutrino masses, neutrino oscillations and the role neutrinos may have played in the evolution of the universe.
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