Search for multimessenger signals in NOvA coincident with LIGO/Virgo detections
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NOvA Collaboration; Meyer, Holger; Muether, Mathew; Solomey, Nickolas. 2020. Search for multimessenger signals in NOvA coincident with LIGO/Virgo detections. Physical Review D, vol. 101:no. 11:art. no. 112006
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Using the NOvA neutrino detectors, a broad search has been performed for any signal coincident with 28 gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration between September 2015 and July 2019. For all of these events, NOvA is sensitive to possible arrival of neutrinos and cosmic rays of GeV and higher energies. For five (seven) events in the NOvA Far (Near) Detector, timely public alerts from the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration allowed recording of MeV-scale events. No signal candidates were found.