Exploring Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the GeV Regime using MINERvA
Abstract
With the advance of particle accelerator and detector technologies, the neutrino physics landscape is rapidly expanding. As neutrino oscillation experiments enter the intensity and precision frontiers, neutrino-nucleus interaction measurements are providing crucial input. MINERvA is an experiment at Fermilab dedicated to the study of neutrino-nucleus interactions in the regime of incident neutrino energies from one to few GeV. The experiment recorded neutrino and antineutrino scattering data with the NuMI beamline from 2009 to 2019 using the Low-Energy and Medium-Energy beams that peak at 3 GeV and 6 GeV, respectively. This article reviews the broad spectrum of interesting nuclear and particle physics that MINERvA investigations have illuminated. The newfound, detailed knowledge of neutrino interactions with nuclear targets thereby obtained is proving essential to continued progress in the neutrino physics sector.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2107.02064,
title = {Exploring Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the GeV Regime using MINERvA},
author = {X. -G. Lu and Z. Ahmad Dar and F. Akbar and D. A. Andrade and M. V. Ascencio and G. D. Barr and A. Bashyal and L. Bellantoni and A. Bercellie and M. Betancourt and A. Bodek and J. L. Bonilla and H. Budd and G. Caceres and T. Cai and M. F. Carneiro and H. da Motta and G. A. Diaz and J. Felix and L. Fields and A. Filkins and R. Fine and A. M. Gago and H. Gallagher and S. M. Gilligan and R. Gran and D. A. Harris and S. Henry and D. Jena and S. Jena and J. Kleykamp and A. Klustova and M. Kordosky and D. Last and A. Lozano and E. Maher and S. Manly and W. A. Mann and C. Mauger and K. S. McFarland and A. M. McGowan and B. Messerly and J. Miller and J. G. Morfin and D. Naples and J. K. Nelson and C. Nguyen and A. Olivier and V. Paolone and G. N. Perdue and K. -J. Plows and M. A. Ramirez and R. D. Ransome and H. Ray and P. A. Rodrigues and D. Ruterbories and H. Schellman and C. J. Solano Salinas and H. Su and M. Sultana and V. S. Syrotenko and E. Valencia and A. V. Waldron and D. Wark and A. Weber and K. Yang and L. Zazueta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.02064},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
22 pages, 17 figures. Accepted as invited contribution to EPJ special issue "Neutrino Interactions in the Intermediate and High Energy Region. Guest editors: Mohammad Sajjad Athar and Shri Krishna Singh"