Description
The NOvA Test Beam project aims to further the reach of the NOvA oscillation experiment by improving the understanding of detector response, absolute energy scale, and calibration, and the associated systematic uncertainties. The program uses a beam consisting of protons, electrons, muons, charged pions and kaons with 1-3% momentum uncertainty in the 0.5-1.5 GeV/c range and a fully instrumented beamline, designed to make precision measurements of the particle momentum and perform identification, before entering a scaled-down NOvA detector. The beamline provides the a precision momentum measurement and particle identification through the use of a spectrometer magnet, a time of flight system, wire chamber detectors for tracking information, and a threshold Cherenkov detector. These tagged particles subsequently interact in the NOvA detector, facilitating measurements of detector response and a validation of the detector calibration. This in turn would lead to a reduction in some of the largest systematic uncertainties in measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters including $ \Delta m_{32}^2$, $\theta_{32}$, and $\delta_{\text{cp}}$ increasing the physics reach of NOvA.
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