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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Doctoral Dissertations

2015

Neutrino oscillation

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Daq Software Contributions, Absolute Scale Energy Calibration And Background Evaluation For The Nova Experiment At Fermilab, Eric Flumerfelt Aug 2015

Daq Software Contributions, Absolute Scale Energy Calibration And Background Evaluation For The Nova Experiment At Fermilab, Eric Flumerfelt

Doctoral Dissertations

The NOvA (NuMI Off-axis νe [nu_e] Appearance) Experiment is a long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiment currently in its second year of operations. NOvA uses the Neutrinos from the Main Injector (NuMI) beam at Fermilab, and there are two main off-axis detectors: a Near Detector at Fermilab and a Far Detector 810 km away at Ash River, MN. The work reported herein is in support of the NOvA Experiment, through contributions to the development of data acquisition software, providing an accurate, absolute-scale energy calibration for electromagnetic showers in NOvA detector elements, crucial to the primary electron neutrino search, and through an …