Theses

Since the first NOvA thesis was submitted in January 2013, the running total number of theses is:
Doctoral Theses:   68
Master’s Theses:     14
Bachelor’s Theses:  1

Analysis of neutrino interactions for the search of supernova signals

Andrey Sheshukov, Joint Insitute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
January 2024
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Veera Mikola, University College London, UK
November 2023
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Study of neutron detector response and related systematic uncertainties in the NOvA oscillation analysis

Miranda Rabelhofer (née Elkins), Iowa State University
September 2023
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Cathal Sweeney, University College London, UK
August 2023
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Constraining neutrino interaction uncertainties for oscillation measurements in the NOvA experiment using Near Detector data

Maria Martinez-Casales, Iowa State University
August 2023
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Measurement of numu CC coherent π+ total cross-section in the NOvA near detector

Chatura Kuruppu, University of South Carolina
July 2023
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Paul Rojas, Colorado State University
July 2023
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Constraining neutrino oscillation and interaction parameters with the NOvA Near Detector and Far Detector data using Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Michael Dolce, Tufts University
July 2023
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Data-Driven Validation of NOvA’s Convolutional Neural Network for Electron (Anti)Neutrino Selection

Anna Hall, University of Virginia
April 2023
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Adversarial training to improve robustness of deep neutrino classifiers in the NOvA experiment

Kevin Mulder, University College London, UK
February 2023
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Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Charged-Current Neutral Pion Production Cross Section in the NOvA Near Detector

Fan Gao, University of Pittsburgh
January 2023
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Yibing Zhang, University of Sussex, UK
December 2022
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Measurement of charged current inclusive antineutrino interactions and 2p2h contribution using the NOvA Near Detector

Saqib Bashar, Tufts University
September 2022
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Sterile Neutrino Search with the NOvA Detectors

Harry Hausner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
August 2022
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Constraining Beam Backgrounds and Analyzing the Detector Response in a Test Beam with the NOvA Experiment

Abhilash Yallappa Dombara, Syracuse University
May 2022
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Proton Scattering in NOvA Test Beam

Teresa Lackey, Indiana University
May 2022
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Towards a Measurement of Neutral Pion Production in Neutral Current Interactions with the NOvA Near Detector

Beatriz Tapia Oregui, University of Texas at Austin
May 2022
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Domain Generalization with Machine Learning in the NOvA Experiment

Andrew Sutton, University of Virginia
February 2022
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NOvA as a Supernova Observatory

Justin Vasel, Indiana University
December 2021
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Tomas Nosek, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
September 2021
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Electron Neutrino Appearance at the NOvA Experiment

Alex Booth, University of Sussex, UK
August 2021
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Searching for Lightweight Dark matter in NOvA Near Detector

Filip Jediný, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
June 2021
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Measurement of Double-Differential Cross Section and 2p2h Contribution Using Charged Current Neutrino Interactions in the NOvA Near Detector

Travis Olson, Tufts University
June 2021
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Analysis of NOvA experiment data in order to measure the neutrino oscillation parameters

Liudmila Kolupaeva, Moscow State University, Russia
May 2021
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Dmitrii Torbunov, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
May 2021
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A Joint Measurement of νμ-Disappearance and νe-Appearance in the NuMI beam using the NOvA Experiment

Nitish Nayak, University of California, Irvine
May 2021
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An Indirect Search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles in the Sun Using Upward-going Muons in NOvA

Cristiana Principato, University of Virginia
April 2021
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Constraints on Neutrino Oscillation Parameters from Neutrinos and Antineutrinos with Machine Learning

Micah Groh, Indiana University
February 2021
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Measurement of Electron Neutrino and Antineutrino Appearance with the NOvA Experiment

Shiqi Yu, Illinois Institute of Technology/Argonne National Laboratory
November 2020
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Charged Pion Semi-inclusive Charged Current Cross Section Measurement in the NOvA Experiment at Fermilab

Jyoti Tripathi, Panjab University, India
October 2020
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Long-baseline Sterile Neutrino Searches in the NOvA Experiment

Sijith Edayath, Cochin University of Science and Technology, India
September 2020
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Extraction of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters using a Simultaneous Fit of vµ Disappearance and ve Appearance data with the NOvA Experiment

Prabhjot Singh, Delhi University, India
July 2020
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Measurement of 3-Flavour Neutrino Oscillation Parameters in the NOvA Experiment

Sebastian Bending, University College London, UK
May 2020
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A Measurement of Neutrino Induced Neutral Current Neutral Pion Production Cross Section With The NOvA Near Detector

Daisy Kalra, Panjab University, India
February 2020
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Measurement of the Inclusive Electron-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Section in the NOvA Near Detector

Matt Judah, Colorado State University
December 2019
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Toward a Precision Era in Neutrino Physics: Liquid Argon Scintillation Detector Development for DUNE and Neutrino Oscillation Studies with NOvA

Bruce Howard, Indiana University
November 2019
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Comparison of oscillation parameters measured from muon neutrino and muon antineutrino disappearance in the NOvA experiment

Diana Patricia Méndez Méndez, University of Sussex, UK
October 2019
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Searching for Light Sterile Neutrinos with NOvA Through Neutral-Current Disappearance

Shaokai Yang, University of Cincinnati
July 2019
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A Search for Anomalous Muon Neutrino Disappearance and Tau Neutrino Appearance using NOvA Near Detector

Rijeesh Keloth, Cochin University of Science and Technology, India
April 2019
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A Model Independent Measurement of the Cross Section Ratio, Rσ = σ(νµ n → µ p) / σ(νµ n → 2 track)

Barnali Chowdhury, University of South Carolina
Spring 2019
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Empirical Determination of the Neutrino Flux at the NOvA Experiment

Kuldeep Kaur Maan, Panjab University, India
February 2019
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Measurement of Δm232 and sin2θ23 using Muon Neutrino and Antineutrino Beams in the NOvA Experiment

Tristan Blackburn, University of Sussex, UK
November 2018
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Constraints on neutrino oscillation parameters with the NOvA experiment

Erika Cataño-Mur, Iowa State University
November 2018
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Improving Physics Based Electron Neutrino Appearance Identification with a Long Short-Term Memory Network

Andrew Vold, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
September 2018
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Measurement of the Double Differential Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged-current Cross-section in the NOvA Near Detector

Biswaranjan Behera, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
August 2018
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Measurement of the kaon production normalization in the NuMI target using uncontained charged-current muon neutrino interactions in the NOvA Far Detector

José Andrés Sepulveda Quiroz, Iowa State University
August 2018
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Search For Short-Baseline Oscillations At The NOvA Near Detector

Siva Prasad Kasetti, University of Hyderabad, India
August 2018
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Escaping Events at the NOvA Far Detector

Vladimir Bychkov, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
August 2018
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Electromagnetic Shower from Cosmic Muons in NOvA Detector

Nitin Yadav, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
July 2018
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A Measurement of ve Appearance and vµ Disappearance Neutrino Oscillations with the NOvA Experiment

Dan Pershey, California Institute of Technology
May 2018
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Observation of multiple-muon seasonal variations in the NOvA Near Detector

Stefano Tognini, Universidade Federal de Goias, Brazil
April 2018
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Measurement of Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations and Improvements from Deep Learning

Fernanda Psihas, Indiana University
February 2018
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Muon-Neutrino Electron Elastic Scattering and a Search for the Muon-Neutrino Magnetic Moment in the NOvA Near Detector

Biao Wang, Southern Methodist University
December 2017
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Measurement of Muon Neutrino Disappearance with the NOvA Experiment

Luke Vinton, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
September 2017
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Electron Neutrino Appearance in the NOvA Experiment

Ji Liu, College of William and Mary
December 2016
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A Search for Sterile Neutrinos at the NOvA Far Detector

Gareth Kafka, Harvard University
April 2016
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Measurement of Muon Neutrino Disappearance with Non-Fiducial Interactions in the NOvA Experiment

Nicholas Raddatz, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
April 2016
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Observing Muon Neutrino to Electron Neutrino Oscillations in the NOvA Experiment

Tian Xin, Iowa State University
April 2016
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Muon Neutrino Disappearance in NOvA with a Deep Convolutional Neural Network Classifier

Dominick Rocco, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
March 2016
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Solar Modulation of the Cosmic Ray Intensity and the Measurement of the Cerenkov Reemission in NOνA’s Liquid Scintillator

Philip Mason, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
December 2015
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Muon Neutrino to Electron Neutrino Oscillation in NOvA

Kanika Sachdev, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
August 2015
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An Analysis of Muon Neutrino Disappearance from the NuMI Beam Using an Optimal Track Fitter

Michael Baird, Indiana University
August 2015
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Muon Neutrino Contained Disappearance in NOvA

Susan Lein, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
August 2015
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Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the NOvA Far Detector

Zukai Wang, University of Virginia
August 2015
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Observation of Electron Neutrino Appearance in the NuMI Beam with the NOvA Experiment

Evan Niner, Indiana University
July 2015
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DAQ Software Contributions, Absolute Scale Energy Calibration and Background Evaluation for the NOvA Experiment at Fermilab

Eric Flumerfelt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
July 2015
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Observation of muon neutrino charged current events in an off-axis horn-focused neutrino beam using the NOvA prototype detector

Enrique Arrieta-Diaz, Michigan State University
December 2014
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Study of Quasi-Elastic Scattering in the NOvA Detector Prototype

Minerba Betancourt, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
October 2013
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Using Machine Learning to Hunt for Simulated WIMPs in the NOvA Near Detector

Dalton Myers, University of Minnesota Duluth
November 2023
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A Study of Electron Energy Response in the NOvA Test Beam Detector

Devesh Bhattarai, University of Mississippi
July 2023
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A study of the possibility to register the atmospheric neutrino events in the NOvA experiment

Andrey Pobedimov, University of Minnesota Duluth
May 2022
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Adam Moren, University of Minnesota Duluth
February 2021
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Sensitivities to neutrino non-standard interactions from the disappearance of muon (anti)neutrinos at the NOvA experiment

Luiz Ricardo Prais, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
October 2020
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Semi-inclusive Neutral Current Neutral Pion Production Selection at the NOvA (NuMI Off-axis Electron Neutrino Appearance) Near Detector Using Prong Level Convolutional Neural Networks

Alan Cedeno, Wichita State University
May 2018
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Optimization of long baseline accelerator neutrino experiment sensitivity for measuring neutrino mass hierarchy

Lyudmila Kolupaeva, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Russia
July 2017

Data Driven Trigger Design and Analysis for the NOvA experiment

Serdar Kurbanov, University of Virginia
November 2016
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An analysis of noise in the NOvA Near Detector

Matt Judah, Colorado State University
April 2016
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Neutrino Beam Simulations and Data Checks for the NOvA Experiment

Marco Del Tutto, University of Rome, Italy
October 2015
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Estimation of the rate of nu_e signal and background events in NOvA experiment

Dmitry Rodkin, Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia
July 2015

Study of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters at NOvA experiment

Tomas Nosek, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
March 2015

Studies on the Module Structure for the NOvA Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector

Michael Slotman, University of Minnesota
December 2014
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Muon Energy Reconstruction Through the Multiple Scattering Method in the NOvA Detectors

Fernanda Psihas, University of Minnesota, Duluth
July 2013
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Detector response calibration for the NOvA quasi-elastic cross-section measurement

Timothy Kutnink, Iowa State University
January 2013
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Selection of quasi elastic neutrino scattering events in the near detector of NOvA experiment

Roman Klokov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Russia
July 2015