The NOvA Experiment: Status and Outlook

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The NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is currently under construction and will use an upgraded NuMI neutrino source at Fermilab and a 14-kton detector at Ash River, Minnesota to explore the neutrino sector. NOvA uses a highly active, finely segmented detector design that offers superb event identification capability, allowing precision measurements of νₑ/νₑ-bar appearance and νμ/νμ-bar disappearance, through which NOvA will provide constraints on θ₁3, θ₂3, |Δm²ₐtm|, the neutrino mass hierarchy, and the CP-violating phase δ. In this article, we review NOvA's uniquely broad physics scope, including sensitivity updates in light of the latest knowledge of θ₁3, and we discuss the experiment's construction and operation timeline.