The Data Quality at the NOvA Experiment

NOvA, a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab, measures the neutrino oscillation parameters, the neutrino mass hierarchy and the CP violation in the lepton sector. A nominal 700kW NuMI beam of predominantly muon neutrinos is shot from Fermilab towards the Far Detector in Ash River, Minnesota and the rate of appearance of electron-neutrino and the disappearance of muon-neutrino are measured. We perform an accurate monitoring of the data recorded by the detectors on a daily basis that helps us analyze any issues with the beam, hardware or data acquisition in the Far/Near Detector channels. In this talk, I’ll present the general techniques to monitor the data recorded in the detector systems in different phases of data collection that is vital for physics analyses.