PAPER / ARXIV:2609.10804
NOvA Collaboration : S. Abubakar , M. A. Acero , B. Acharya , P. Adamson , N. Anfimov , A. Antoshkinaf , E. Arrieta-Diaz , L. Asquith , A. Aurisano , N. Balashov , P. Baldi , B. A. Bambah , E. F. Bannister , A. Barros , J. Barrow , A. Bat , T. J. C. Bezerra , V. Bhatnagar , B. Bhuyan , J. Bian , S. Block , A. C. Booth , B. Brahma , C. Bromberg , N. Buchanan , J. Burns , A. Butkevich , T. J. Carroll , E. Catano-Mur , J. P. Cesar , C. Chang , S. Chaudhary , H. Chen , S. Choate , B. C. Choudhary , O. T. K. Chow , A. Christensen , M. F. Cicala , T. E. Coan , T. Contreras , A. Cooleybeck , L. Cremonesi , G. S. Davies , P. F. Derwent , K. Dever , Z. Djurcic , K. Dobbs , D. Dueñas Tonguino , E. C. Dukes , A. Dye , R. Ehrlich , E. Ewart , P. Filip , W. Flanagan , M. J. Frank , H. R. Gallagher , F. Gao , A. Giri , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , R. Group , A. Gusmão , A. Habig , F. Hakl , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , J. M. Hays , M. He , A. Heggestuen , K. Heller , V Hewes , A. Himmel , T. Horoho , J. Huang , X. Huang , T. Huynh , A. Ivanova , C. Joe , K. Kaess , I. Kakorin , A. Kalitkina , D. M. Kaplan , A. Khanam , B. Kirezli , J. Kleykamp , O. Klimov , L. W. Koerner , L. Kolupaeva , R. Kralik , G. Kufatty , A. Kumar , C. D. Kuruppu , V. Kus , T. Lackey , K. Lang , A. Lister , J. Liu , J. A. Lock , S. Magill
RESUMO
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to study the neutrino mixing parameters, mass ordering, and CP violation in the lepton sector. A key component of the success of the experiment is a robust understanding of the systematic uncertainties associated with detector response and calibration. To address this, NOvA deployed a Test Beam experiment at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility, which collected data from April 2019 through July 2022. The NOvA Test Beam experiment used a 30-ton segmented liquid scintillator detector functionally identical to the NOvA Near and Far Detectors to analyze tagged particles produced from p-Cu collisions, with instrumentation capable of selecting and identifying electrons, muons, pions, kaons, and protons with momentum ranging from 0.4-1.5GeV/c. Analysis of the collected data provides a better understanding of the largest systematic uncertainties impacting NOvA's analyses, which include the detector response, energy calibration, and hadronic and electromagnetic energy resolutions.
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