Seminar on neutrino physics with the NOvA and DUNE experiments
Ten Years of NOvA in the Current Long-Baseline Picture, with DUNE on the Horizon
Abstract
Long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiments address some of the central open questions in particle physics: the ordering of the neutrino masses, the origin of leptonic CP violation, and whether the standard three-flavor picture of neutrino mixing is complete.
Fermilab's NOvA experiment, together with T2K in Japan, has played a central role in establishing the current long-baseline accelerator picture. After a decade of data taking, NOvA has delivered one of the sharpest views yet of three-flavor neutrino oscillations, including the most precise single-experiment measurement of |Δm^2_32|.
In this talk I will focus on NOvA's contribution to the current long-baseline picture, including its recent oscillation results and its first dedicated search for CP-violating non-standard neutrino interactions in propagation.
I will then turn to DUNE, whose wide-band beam, 1300 km baseline, and access to multiple oscillation maxima are more robust to parameter degeneracies. DUNE is a multi-purpose experiment that will extend long-baseline oscillations into a precision probe of leptonic CP violation and physics beyond the Standard Model.
Fermilab's NOvA experiment, together with T2K in Japan, has played a central role in establishing the current long-baseline accelerator picture. After a decade of data taking, NOvA has delivered one of the sharpest views yet of three-flavor neutrino oscillations, including the most precise single-experiment measurement of |Δm^2_32|.
In this talk I will focus on NOvA's contribution to the current long-baseline picture, including its recent oscillation results and its first dedicated search for CP-violating non-standard neutrino interactions in propagation.
I will then turn to DUNE, whose wide-band beam, 1300 km baseline, and access to multiple oscillation maxima are more robust to parameter degeneracies. DUNE is a multi-purpose experiment that will extend long-baseline oscillations into a precision probe of leptonic CP violation and physics beyond the Standard Model.
Bio
Gavin S. Davies is an experimental neutrino physicist at the University of Mississippi, where he is Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Graduate Program Coordinator.
His research centers on the NOvA, DUNE experiments at Fermilab, with a focus on long-baseline neutrino oscillations, precision measurements, and searches for physics beyond the standard three-flavor picture. He also contributes to the EMPHATIC experiment, which provides precision hadron-production data crucial for improving neutrino-flux predictions.
He has worked on NOvA for more than a decade and currently serves as NOvA Computing Coordinator. He is also DUNE Global Software Technical Lead, helping lead the collaboration's software direction for the next generation of long-baseline neutrino measurements.
Davies received his Ph.D. in physics from Lancaster University, UK in 2011 after earlier work there on the T2K experiment, and held postdoctoral appointments in the US at Iowa State University and Indiana University with research based at Fermilab. He is a member of the APS DPF Coordinating Panel for Software and Computing and a former Chair of the Fermilab Users Executive Committee. His research program at Ole Miss is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.
His research centers on the NOvA, DUNE experiments at Fermilab, with a focus on long-baseline neutrino oscillations, precision measurements, and searches for physics beyond the standard three-flavor picture. He also contributes to the EMPHATIC experiment, which provides precision hadron-production data crucial for improving neutrino-flux predictions.
He has worked on NOvA for more than a decade and currently serves as NOvA Computing Coordinator. He is also DUNE Global Software Technical Lead, helping lead the collaboration's software direction for the next generation of long-baseline neutrino measurements.
Davies received his Ph.D. in physics from Lancaster University, UK in 2011 after earlier work there on the T2K experiment, and held postdoctoral appointments in the US at Iowa State University and Indiana University with research based at Fermilab. He is a member of the APS DPF Coordinating Panel for Software and Computing and a former Chair of the Fermilab Users Executive Committee. His research program at Ole Miss is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.