Darya Velikanova at NOvA

Working time : 3 weeks August 2016 within SSP-2016 1 month June 2018 within Test bench for measurements of the NOvA scintillator properties at JINR activities (info about test bench) Advisors : Oleg Samoylov Alexander Antoshkin

Tasks description

• Summer Student Program 2016 at JINR -- An approbation of methodology to measure scintillators' quenching factor for alpha particles in comparison with electrons and muons.
• Test bench for measurements of the NOvA scintillator properties at JINR -- investigation of the NOvA and LAB-based scintillator different properties and comparison between them in terms of alpha/beta ratio and Birks coefficients for hadrons.
• Right now Darya decided to change her scientific interests and moved them out of NOvA