Recent Results from NOvA

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that measures neutrinos originating from Fermilab's NuMI beamline. NOvA uses a combination of a near detector located at Fermilab and a far detector located in Ash River, MN. Neutrino oscillation is detected at NOvA by observing a combination of electron neutrino appearance and muon neutrino disappearance in the far detector. Neutrino oscillation is proof that neutrinos have mass that is not predicted by the Standard Model. Therefore, understanding neutrino oscillation is a key to understanding the universe, and NOvA has been instrumental in the rapid progress toward understanding. Discussed are some of the new analysis techniques the experiment has innovated with to evaluate its data in new ways. In the age of high-precision measurements, extensions of standard oscillation can be considered. One such extension involves a search for a 4th so-called sterile neutrino flavor which is otherwise undetectable. Another extension is the search for non-standard interactions of neutrinos as they pass through matter, which would change the oscillation spectrum and affect the measurement of standard oscillation parameters.