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The R&D mission of the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is described in detail. ANNIE is: (1) an important measurement of neutrino-nucleus interactions focusing specifically on neutron production, and (2) an R&D…

The NuMI facility at Fermilab will provide an extremely intense beam of neutrinos for the MINOS neutrino-oscillation experiment. The spacious and fully-outfitted MINOS near detector hall will be the ideal venue for a high-statistics,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 Minerva Collaboration

The NuMI neutrino beam line and the MINOS experiment represent a major investment of US High Energy Physics in the area of neutrino physics. The forthcoming results could decisively establish neutrino oscillations as the underlying physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 D. Ayres et. al

The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation search (MINOS) uses two detectors separated by 735km to measure a beam of neutrinos created by the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) facility at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael Kordosky

The Minos+ experiment is an extension of the Minos experiment at a higher energy and more intense neutrino beam, with the data collection having begun in the fall of 2013. The neutrino beam is provided by the Neutrinos from the Main…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-17 William Badgett , Steve R. Hahn , Donatella Torretta , Jerry Meier , Jeffrey Gunderson , Denise Osterholm , David Saranen

SciNO$\nu$A is a proposed experiment to deploy a fine-grained scintillator detector in front of the NO$\nu$A near detector to collect neutrino-nucleus scattering events in the NuMI, off-axis, narrow-band neutrino beam at Fermilab. This…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-11-18 X. C. Tian

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino experiment using an off-axis neutrino beam produced by the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The NOvA experiment will study neutrino $\nu_{\mu}\rightarrow\nu_{e}$ oscillations. A short term goal for the NOvA…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-19 M. Betancourt

We present measurements of $\nu_{\mu}$ charged-current cross section ratios on carbon, iron, and lead relative to a scintillator (CH) using the fine-grained MINERvA detector exposed to the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The measurements…

The NOvA experiment is an off-axis long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment seeking to measure $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance and $\nu_{e}$ appearance in a $\nu_{\mu}$ beam originating at Fermilab. In addition to measuring the unoscillated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 J. Wolcott

The MicroBooNE detector has recently completed its first year of neutrino beam data-taking in the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab, having collected approximately half of its intended data ($3.4\times10^{20}$ of $6.6\times10^{20}$ protons…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-04 Pip Hamilton

The NO$\nu$A collaboration has constructed a 14,000 ton, fine-grained, low-Z, total absorption tracking calorimeter at an off-axis angle to an upgraded NuMI neutrino beam. This detector, with its excellent granularity and energy resolution…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-03 R. Mina , E. Culbertson , M. J. Frank , R. C. Group , A. Norman , I. Oksuzian

One of the largest sources of systematic uncertainties in ongoing neutrino-oscillation measurements is the description of nuclear effects. Its considerable reduction is expected thanks to the dedicated studies of (anti)neutrino-nucleus…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-15 Artur M. Ankowski

The MINOS experiment observes the NuMI beam produced by the Main Injector accelerator at two detector stations, one 1 km and the other 735 km from the neutrino production target. From the disappearance of neutrinos in flight between the two…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Patricia Vahle

This paper describes the performance and sensitivity to neutrino mixing parameters of a Magnetised Iron Neutrino Detector (MIND) at a Neutrino Factory with a neutrino beam created from the decay of 10 GeV muons. Specifically, it is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-10-14 R. Bayes , A. Laing , F. J. P. Soler , A. Cervera Villanueva , J. J. Gómez Cadenas , P. Hernández , J. Martín-Albo , J. Burguet-Castell

The MINOS experiment is a long-baseline neutrino experiment designed to study neutrino behaviour, in particular the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations. MINOS sends the NuMI neutrino beam through two detectors, a Near Detector 1 km…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-01-19 Anna Holin

NOvA is a long-baseline accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment that is optimized for $\nu_e$ measurements. It uses the upgraded NuMI beam from Fermilab and measures electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 Jianming Bian

The MINOS Collaboration continues its search for $\nu_e$ appearance in the NuMI (Neutrinos at the Main Injector) beam at Fermilab. Neutrinos in the beam interact in the Near Detector, located 1 km from the beam source, allowing us to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-19 Mhair Orchanian

ArgoNeuT, or Argon Neutrino Test, is a 170 liter liquid argon time projection chamber designed to collect neutrino interactions from the NuMI beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. ArgoNeuT operated in the NuMI low-energy beam line…

Neutrino oscillation experiments require a precise measurement of the neutrino energy. However, the kinematic detection of the final-state neutron in the neutrino interaction is missing in current neutrino oscillation experiments. The…