1. Improved measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters by the NOvA experiment
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Acero, M. A., Adamson, P., Aliaga, L., Anfimov, N., Antoshkin, A., Arrieta-Diaz, E., Asquith, L., Aurisano, A., Back, A., Backhouse, C., Baird, M., Balashov, N., Baldi, P., Bambah, B. A., Bashar, S., Bays, K., Bernstein, R., Bhatnagar, V., Bhattarai, D., Bhuyan, B., Bian, J., Blair, J., Booth, A. C., Bowles, R., Bromberg, C., Buchanan, N., Butkevich, A., Calvez, S., Carroll, T. J., Catano-Mur, E., Choudhary, B. C., Christensen, A., Coan, T. E., Colo, M., Cremonesi, L., Davies, G. S., Derwent, P. F., Ding, P., Djurcic, Z., Dolce, M., Doyle, D., Tonguino, D. Dueñas, Dukes, E. C., Duyang, H., Ehrlich, R., Elkins, M., Ewart, E., Feldman, G. J., Filip, P., Franc, J., Frank, M. J., Gallagher, H. R., Gandrajula, R., Gao, F., Giri, A., Gomes, R. A., Goodman, M. C., Grichine, V., Groh, M., Guo, B., Habig, A., Hakl, F., Hall, A., Hartnell, J., Hatcher, R., Hausner, H., He, M., Heller, K., Hewes, J., Himmel, A., Holin, A., Huang, J., Jargowsky, B., Jarosz, J., Jediny, F., Johnson, C., Judah, M., Kakorin, I., Kaplan, D. M., Kalitkina, A., Keloth, R., Klimov, O., Koerner, L. W., Kolupaeva, L., Kotelnikov, S., Kralik, R., Kullenberg, Ch, Kubu, M., Kumar, A., Kuruppu, C. D., Kus, V., Lackey, T., Lang, K., Lasorak, P., Lesmeister, J., Lin, S., Lister, A., Liu, J., Lokajicek, M., Magill, S., Plata, M. Manrique, Mann, W. A., Marshak, M. L., Martinez-Casales, M., Matveev, V., Mayes, B., Méndez, D. P., Messier, M. D., Meyer, H., Miao, T., Miller, W. H., Mishra, S. R., Mislivec, A., Mohanta, R., Moren, A., Morozova, A., Mu, W., Mualem, L., Muether, M., Mufson, S., Mulder, K., Naples, D., Nayak, N., Nelson, J. K., Nichol, R., Niner, E., Norman, A., Norrick, A., Nosek, T., Oh, H., Olshevskiy, A., Olson, T., Ott, J., Paley, J., Patterson, R. B., Pawloski, G., Olga Petrova, Petti, R., Phan, D. D., Plunkett, R. K., Porter, J. C. C., Rafique, A., Psihas, F., Raj, V., Rajaoalisoa, M., Ramson, B., Rebel, B., Rojas, P., Roy, P., Ryabov, V., Samoylov, O., Sanchez, M. C., Falero, S. Sánchez, Shanahan, P., Sheshukov, A., Singh, P., Singh, V., Smith, E., Smolik, J., Snopok, P., Solomey, N., Sousa, A., Soustruznik, K., Strait, M., Suter, L., Sutton, A., Swain, S., Sweeney, C., Sztuc, A., Talaga, R. L., Oregui, B. Tapia, Tas, P., Thakore, T., Thayyullathil, R. B., Thomas, J., Tiras, E., Tripathi, J., Trokan-Tenorio, J., Tsaris, A., Torun, Y., Urheim, J., Vahle, P., Vallari, Z., Vasel, J., Vokac, P., Vrba, T., Wallbank, M., Warburton, T. K., Wetstein, M., Whittington, D., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Wojcicki, S. G., Wolcott, J., Wu, W., Xiao, Y., Dombara, A. Yallappa, Yankelevich, A., Yonehara, K., Yu, S., Yu, Y., Zadorozhnyy, S., Zalesak, J., Zhang, Y., Zwaska, R., and Group, R. C.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,FOS: Physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
We present new $\nu_\mu\rightarrow\nu_e$, $\nu_\mu\rightarrow\nu_\mu$, $\overline{\nu}_\mu\rightarrow\overline{\nu}_e$, and $\overline{\nu}_\mu\rightarrow\overline{\nu}_\mu$ oscillation measurements by the NOvA experiment, with a 50% increase in neutrino-mode beam exposure over the previously reported results. The additional data, combined with previously published neutrino and antineutrino data, are all analyzed using improved techniques and simulations. A joint fit to the $\nu_e$, $\nu_\mu$, $\overline{\nu}_e$, and $\overline{\nu}_\mu$ candidate samples within the 3-flavor neutrino oscillation framework continues to yield a best-fit point in the normal mass ordering and the upper octant of the $\theta_{23}$ mixing angle, with $\Delta m^{2}_{32} = (2.41\pm0.07)\times 10^{-3}$ eV$^2$ and $\sin^2\theta_{23} = 0.57^{+0.03}_{-0.04}$. The data disfavor combinations of oscillation parameters that give rise to a large asymmetry in the rates of $\nu_e$ and $\overline{\nu}_e$ appearance. This includes values of the CP-violating phase in the vicinity of $\delta_\text{CP} = \pi/2$ which are excluded by $>3\sigma$ for the inverted mass ordering, and values around $\delta_\text{CP} = 3\pi/2$ in the normal ordering which are disfavored at 2$\sigma$ confidence., Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures. Supplementary material attached (7 figures)
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- 2022