Jarosław Nowak (University of Minnesota), skype connection

NOvA experiment: status and future

NOvA experiment is a second generation experiment which will focus on the appearance of the electron neutrino in the muon neutrino produced in the NuMI beamline. NOvA was design as a fully active liquid scintillator detector. A part of the project is an upgrade of the Fermilab NuMI beamline from 400kW to 700kW. The far detector of the NOvA experiment will be built in Ash River in northern Minnesota to allow the measurement of the matter effects. With a long baseline NOvA will be sensitive to the neutrino mass hierarchy and will extend search of the measurement of neutrino appearance by an order of magnitude beyond current limits. Construction one the detector has begun in 2009 and in 2012 first data is excepted.