The NOνA experiment

The NOνA experiment aims to study the mixing behavior of neutrinos and will attempt to resolve the neutrino mass hierarchy. The experiment will rely on data collected at two detectors, one near Fermilab's NuMI (Neutrinos at the Main Injector) target and one 810 km north at Ash River, MN. The detectors are 14 mrad off the beam axis, which results in an almost monoenergetic beam of 2 GeV neutrinos. The construction of the far detector started early this year, the instrumentation will commence this fall, and we hope to take our first data in the beginning of next year. In this talk I will focus on the exciting possibilities of our detector in light of recent neutrino results and will discuss our plans to measure the neutrino mixing angle θ₁₃ as well as to attempt to resolve the neutrino mass hierarchy and to understand the effects of the CP violating phase angle δ. I will also survey the rich physics program provided by our 14 kT fully active far detector, such as searches for magnetic monopoles and detection of supernova neutrinos.