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The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline at Fermilab generates an intense muon neutrino beam for the NOvA (NuMI Off-axis $\nu_e$ Appearance) long-baseline neutrino experiment. Over the years, the NuMI beamline has been pivotal in…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 D. A. A. Wickremasinghe , K. Yonehara

The majority of neutrino oscillation experiments have obtained evidence for neutrino oscillations that are compatible with the three-flavor model. Explaining anomalous results from short-baseline experiments, such as LSND and MiniBooNE, in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-04 Sijith Edayath , Adam Aurisano , Alexandre Sousa , Gavin Davies , Louise Suter , Shaokai Yang

Cross sections for the interaction $\nu_\mu A\rightarrow\mu^-\pi^0 X$ with neutrino energies between 1 and 5~GeV are measured using a sample of 165k selected events collected in the NOvA experiment's Near Detector, a hydrocarbon-based…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-05 NOvA Collaboration

This paper reports the first measurement using the NOvA detectors of $\nu_\mu$ disappearance in a $\nu_\mu$ beam. The analysis uses a 14 kton-equivalent exposure of $2.74 \times 10^{20}$ protons-on-target from the Fermilab NuMI beam.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-03-31 P. Adamson , C. Ader , M. Andrews , N. Anfimov , I. Anghel , K. Arms , E. Arrieta-Diaz , A. Aurisano , D. Ayres , C. Backhouse , M. Baird , B. A. Bambah , K. Bays , R. Bernstein , M. Betancourt , V. Bhatnagar , B. Bhuyan , J. Bian , K. Biery , T. Blackburn , V. Bocean , D. Bogert , A. Bolshakova , M. Bowden , C. Bower , D. Broemmelsiek , C. Bromberg , G. Brunetti , X. Bu , A. Butkevich , D. Capista , E. Catano-Mur , T. R. Chase , S. Childress , B. C. Choudhary , B. Chowdhury , T. E. Coan , J. A. B. Coelho , M. Colo , J. Cooper , L. Corwin , D. Cronin-Hennessy , A. Cunningham , G. S. Davies , J. P. Davies , M. Del Tutto , P. F. Derwent , K. N. Deepthi , D. Demuth , S. Desai , G. Deuerling , A. Devan , J. Dey , R. Dharmapalan , P. Ding , S. Dixon , Z. Djurcic , E. C. Dukes , H. Duyang , R. Ehrlich , G. J. Feldman , N. Felt , E. J. Fenyves , E. Flumerfelt , S. Foulkes , M. J. Frank , W. Freeman , M. Gabrielyan , H. R. Gallagher , M. Gebhard , T. Ghosh , W. Gilbert , A. Giri , S. Goadhouse , R. A. Gomes , L. Goodenough , M. C. Goodman , V. Grichine , N. Grossman , R. Group , J. Grudzinski , V. Guarino , B. Guo , A. Habig , T. Handler , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , A. Hatzikoutelis , K. Heller , C. Howcroft , J. Huang , X. Huang , J. Hylen , M. Ishitsuka , F. Jediny , C. Jensen , D. Jensen , C. Johnson , H. Jostlein , G. K. Kafka , Y. Kamyshkov , S. M. S. Kasahara , S. Kasetti , K. Kephart , G. Koizumi , S. Kotelnikov , I. Kourbanis , Z. Krahn , V. Kravtsov , A. Kreymer , Ch. Kulenberg , A. Kumar , T. Kutnink , R. Kwarciancy , J. Kwong , K. Lang , A. Lee , W. M. Lee , K. Lee , S. Lein , J. Liu , M. Lokajicek , J. Lozier , Q. Lu , P. Lucas , S. Luchuk , P. Lukens , G. Lukhanin , S. Magill , K. Maan , W. A. Mann , M. L. Marshak , M. Martens , J. Martincik , P. Mason , K. Matera , M. Mathis , V. Matveev , N. Mayer , E. McCluskey , R. Mehdiyev , H. Merritt , M. D. Messier , H. Meyer , T. Miao , D. Michael , S. P. Mikheyev , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , R. Mohanta , A. Moren , L. Mualem , M. Muether , S. Mufson , J. Musser , H. B. Newman , J. K. Nelson , E. Niner , A. Norman , J. Nowak , Y. Oksuzian , A. Olshevskiy , J. Oliver , T. Olson , J. Paley , P. Pandey , A. Para , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , N. Pearson , D. Perevalov , D. Pershey , E. Peterson , R. Petti , S. Phan-Budd , L. Piccoli , A. Pla-Dalmau , R. K. Plunkett , R. Poling , B. Potukuchi , F. Psihas , D. Pushka , X. Qiu , N. Raddatz , A. Radovic , R. A. Rameika , R. Ray , B. Rebel , R. Rechenmacher , B. Reed , R. Reilly , D. Rocco , D. Rodkin , K. Ruddick , R. Rusack , V. Ryabov , K. Sachdev , S. Sahijpal , H. Sahoo , O. Samoylov , M. C. Sanchez , N. Saoulidou , P. Schlabach , J. Schneps , R. Schroeter , J. Sepulveda-Quiroz , P. Shanahan , B. Sherwood , A. Sheshukov , J. Singh , V. Singh , A. Smith , D. Smith , J. Smolik , N. Solomey , A. Sotnikov , A. Sousa , K. Soustruznik , Y. Stenkin , M. Strait , L. Suter , R. L. Talaga , M. C. Tamsett , S. Tariq , P. Tas , R. J. Tesarek , R. B. Thayyullathil , K. Thomsen , X. Tian , S. C. Tognini , R. Toner , J. Trevor , G. Tzanakos , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , L. Valerio , L. Vinton , T. Vrba , A. V. Waldron , B. Wang , Z. Wang , A. Weber , A. Wehmann , D. Whittington , N. Wilcer , R. Wildberger , D. Wildman , K. Williams , S. G. Wojcicki , K. Wood , M. Xiao , T. Xin , N. Yadav , S. Yang , S. Zadorozhnyy , J. Zalesak , B. Zamorano , A. Zhao , J. Zirnstein , R. Zwaska

Powerful new multi-kiloton liquid scintillator neutrino detectors, including NOvA and LENA, will come on-line within the next decade. When these are coupled with a modest-power decay-at-rest (DAR) neutrino source at short-baseline, these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , J. M. Conrad , M. H. Shaevitz

NO$\nu$A is an accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment which has a great potential to measure the last unknown mixing angle $\theta_{13}$, the neutrino mass hierarchy, and the CP-violation phase in lepton sector with 1) 700 kW…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Xinchun Tian

We report a search for neutrino oscillations to sterile neutrinos under a model with three active and one sterile neutrinos (3+1 model). This analysis uses the NOvA detectors exposed to the NuMI beam, running in neutrino mode. The data…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-27 The NOvA Collaboration

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. It is optimized to measure $\nu_e$ appearance and $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance at the Far Detector in the $\nu_{\mu}$ beam produced by the NuMI facility at Fermilab. NOvA uses a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-30 Shiqi Yu

MINERvA is a dedicated neutrino cross-section experiment planned for the near detector hall of the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. I summarize the detector design and physics capabilities of the experiment.

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-15 Kevin S. McFarland

The MINOS long baseline experiment has been collecting neutrino beam data since March 2005 and has accumulated 3 x 10^{20} protons-on-target (POT) to date. MINOS uses Fermilab's NuMI neutrino beam which is measured by two steel-scintillator…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-06-13 Tobias M. Raufer

Knowledge of the neutrino flux produced by the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline is essential to the neutrino oscillation and neutrino interaction measurements of the MINERvA, MINOS+, NOvA and MicroBooNE experiments at Fermi…

Fermilab has had a very active long baseline neutrino program since initiation of the NuMI project in 1998. Commissioned in 2005, the NuMI beam with 400 kW design power has been in operation for the MINOS neutrino oscillation program since…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Childress , J. Strait

The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) facility at Fermilab is due to begin operations in late 2004. NuMI will deliver an intense muon neutrino beam of variable energy 2-20 GeV directed into the Earth at 58 mrad for short (~1 km) and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Sacha E. Kopp

The velocity of a ~3 GeV neutrino beam is measured by comparing detection times at the Near and Far detectors of the MINOS experiment, separated by 734 km. A total of 473 Far Detector neutrino events was used to measure (v-c)/c = 5.1 +/-…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 MINOS Collaboration , P. Adamson

The MINERvA collaboration operated a scaled-down replica of the solid scintillator tracking and sampling calorimeter regions of the MINERvA detector in a hadron test beam at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. This article reports measurements…

Updating our previous measurements with new data and analysis modifications, we report preliminary results on the energy-dependent deficit of muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam as observed with the MINOS Far Detector located 735 km…

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

The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) facility at Fermilab began operations in late 2004. NuMI will deliver an intense muon neutrino beam of variable energy (2-20 GeV) directed into the Earth at 58 mrad for short (~1km) and long…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sacha E. Kopp

The SciBath-768 detector is a prototype neutral particle detector offering high-precision reconstruction of neutrino and neutron events. It consists of a three dimensional grid of 768 wavelength-shifting fibers immersed in 82 liters of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-10-21 R. Cooper , L. Garrison , H. -O. Meyer , T. Mikev , L. Rebenitsch , R. Tayloe

Beams of neutrinos have been proposed as a vehicle for communications under unusual circumstances, such as direct point-to-point global communication, communication with submarines, secure communications and interstellar communication. We…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-04-10 D. D. Stancil , P. Adamson , M. Alania , L. Aliaga , M. Andrews , C. Araujo Del Castillo , L. Bagby , J. L. Bazo Alba , A. Bodek , D. Boehnlein , R. Bradford , W. K. Brooks , H. Budd , A. Butkevich , D. A. M. Caicedo , D. P. Capista , C. M. Castromonte , A. Chamorro , E. Charlton , M. E. Christy , J. Chvojka , P. D. Conrow , I. Danko , M. Day , J. Devan , J. M. Downey , S. A. Dytman , B. Eberly , J. R. Fein , J. Felix , L. Fields , G. A. Fiorentini , A. M. Gago , H. Gallagher , R. Gran , J. Grange , J. Griffin , T. Griffin , E. Hahn , D. A. Harris , A. Higuera , J. A. Hobbs , C. M. Hoffman , B. L. Hughes , K. Hurtado , A. Judd , T. Kafka , K. Kephart , J. Kilmer , M. Kordosky , S. A. Kulagin , V. A. Kuznetsov , M. Lanari , T. Le , H. Lee , L. Loiacono , G. Maggi , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. M. Marshall , K. S. McFarland , A. Mislivec , A. M. McGowan , J. G. Morfin , H. da Motta , J. Mousseau , J. K. Nelson , J. A. Niemiec-Gielata , N. Ochoa , B. Osmanov , J. Osta , J. L. Palomino , J. S. Paradis , V. Paolone , J. Park , C. Pena , G. Perdue , C. E. Perez Lara , A. M. Peterman , A. Pla-Dalmau , B. Pollock , F. Prokoshin , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , M. Reyhan , P. Rubinov , D. Ruggiero , O. S. Sands , H. Schellman , D. W. Schmitz , E. C. Schulte , C. Simon , C. J. Solano Salinas , R. Stefanski , R. G. Stevens , N. Tagg , V. Takhistov , B. G. Tice , R. N. Tilden , J. P. Velasquez , I. Vergalosova , J. Voirin , J. Walding , B. J. Walker , T. Walton , J. Wolcott , T. P. Wytock , G. Zavala , D. Zhang , L. Y. Zhu , B. P. Ziemer