The NOvA Test Beam Experiment

@misc{collaboration2026nova,
  title = {{The NOvA Test Beam Experiment}},
  author = {NOvA Collaboration and S. Abubakar and M. A. Acero and B. Acharya and P. Adamson and N. Anfimov and A. Antoshkinaf and E. Arrieta-Diaz and L. Asquith and A. Aurisano and N. Balashov and P. Baldi and B. A. Bambah and E. F. Bannister and A. Barros and J. Barrow and A. Bat and T. J. C. Bezerra and V. Bhatnagar and B. Bhuyan and J. Bian and S. Block and A. C. Booth and B. Brahma and C. Bromberg and N. Buchanan and J. Burns and A. Butkevich and T. J. Carroll and E. Catano-Mur and J. P. Cesar and C. Chang and S. Chaudhary and H. Chen and S. Choate and B. C. Choudhary and O. T. K. Chow and A. Christensen and M. F. Cicala and T. E. Coan and T. Contreras and A. Cooleybeck and L. Cremonesi and G. S. Davies and P. F. Derwent and K. Dever and Z. Djurcic and K. Dobbs and D. Dueñas Tonguino and E. C. Dukes and A. Dye and R. Ehrlich and E. Ewart and P. Filip and W. Flanagan and M. J. Frank and H. R. Gallagher and F. Gao and A. Giri and R. A. Gomes},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.10804},
  eprint = {2609.10804},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.10804},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}

TY  - UNPB
TI  - The NOvA Test Beam Experiment
AU  - NOvA Collaboration
AU  - S. Abubakar
AU  - M. A. Acero
AU  - B. Acharya
AU  - P. Adamson
AU  - N. Anfimov
AU  - A. Antoshkinaf
AU  - E. Arrieta-Diaz
AU  - L. Asquith
AU  - A. Aurisano
AU  - N. Balashov
AU  - P. Baldi
AU  - B. A. Bambah
AU  - E. F. Bannister
AU  - A. Barros
AU  - J. Barrow
AU  - A. Bat
AU  - T. J. C. Bezerra
AU  - V. Bhatnagar
AU  - B. Bhuyan
AU  - J. Bian
AU  - S. Block
AU  - A. C. Booth
AU  - B. Brahma
AU  - C. Bromberg
AU  - N. Buchanan
AU  - J. Burns
AU  - A. Butkevich
AU  - T. J. Carroll
AU  - E. Catano-Mur
AU  - J. P. Cesar
AU  - C. Chang
AU  - S. Chaudhary
AU  - H. Chen
AU  - S. Choate
AU  - B. C. Choudhary
AU  - O. T. K. Chow
AU  - A. Christensen
AU  - M. F. Cicala
AU  - T. E. Coan
AU  - T. Contreras
AU  - A. Cooleybeck
AU  - L. Cremonesi
AU  - G. S. Davies
AU  - P. F. Derwent
AU  - K. Dever
AU  - Z. Djurcic
AU  - K. Dobbs
AU  - D. Dueñas Tonguino
AU  - E. C. Dukes
AU  - A. Dye
AU  - R. Ehrlich
AU  - E. Ewart
AU  - P. Filip
AU  - W. Flanagan
AU  - M. J. Frank
AU  - H. R. Gallagher
AU  - F. Gao
AU  - A. Giri
AU  - R. A. Gomes
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/15
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.10804
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.10804
AB  - 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.
ER  -