Next Questions in Neutrino Physics: Recent Results from the NOvA Experiment

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of neutrino oscillations and mass in 1998. That discovery spawned a worldwide effort to better understand neutrino properties using oscillations of neutrinos produced in the sun, in the atmosphere, at reactors, and by accelerators. While much has been learned since then, several important questions remain: Which neutrino is heaviest? Are there new symmetries in neutrino mixing? Do neutrinos break the symmetry between matter and antimatter? Is the framework we use to understand neutrinos complete or is there more? The NOvA experiment is designed to address each of these remaining questions and has completed two years of operations. Messier will summarize the important factors that guided the NOvA design and present the most recent measurements of muon neutrino oscillations from the experiment.