UC Physics Professor Works on NOvA Project
Physics professor Alex Sousa contributed to a milestone observation of the NOvA Experiment.
NOvA will be the leading neutrino detection experiment in the US High-Energy Physics program over the next decade and is currently under construction.
When completed, the NOvA Far Detector, in Ash River, Minn., will be the largest ever assembled plastic structure at more than 200-feet long, 50-feet wide and 50-feet tall.
The milestone was the observation of the first particle (a cosmic ray muon) in the portion of the Far Detector that is already built and was recently instrumented. For more information, read the
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