Speaker
Xiaoyan Huang
(University of Mississippi)
Description
NOvA measures neutrino oscillations by comparing event rates at two detectors along the NuMI beam, 810 km apart. We use this data to test whether nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI) are consistent with what we observe, using a Bayesian MCMC approach to map out the allowed parameter space.
The analysis uses electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance samples in neutrino and antineutrino beams.
The poster summarizes projected sensitivity to NSI parameters and outlines how different samples and running modes influence the inferred parameter space.
Authors
Dr
Gavin Davies
(University of Mississippi)
Xiaoyan Huang
(University of Mississippi)