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Extracting neutrino oscillation parameters using a simultaneous fit of the $\nu_{e}$ appearance and $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance data in the NOvA experiment

NOvA is a two detector, long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to study $\nu_{e}$ ($\bar{\nu}_{e}$) appearance and $\nu_{\mu}$ ($\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$) disappearance in a $\nu_{\mu}$ ($\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$) beam produced at Fermilab.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-12 Prabhjot Singh

Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E_{\nu} ~ 3.5 GeV

We have isolated muon anti-neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic interactions occurring in the segmented scintillator tracking region of the MINERvA detector running in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. We measure the flux-averaged…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-25 The MINERvA collaboration , L. Fields , J. Chvojka , L. Aliaga , O. Altinok , B. Baldin , A. Baumbaugh , A. Bodek , D. Boehnlein , S. Boyd , R. Bradford , W. K. Brooks , H. Budd , A. Butkevich , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , C. M. Castromonte , M. E. Christy , H. Chung , M. Clark , H. da Motta , D. S. Damiani , I. Danko , M. Datta , M. Day , R. DeMaat , J. Devan , E. Draeger , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Díaz , B. Eberly , D. A. Edmondson , J. Felix , T. Fitzpatrick , G. A. Fiorentini , A. M. Gago , H. Gallagher , C. A. George , J. A. Gielata , C. Gingu , B. Gobbi , R. Gran , N. Grossman , J. Hanson , D. A. Harris , J. Heaton , A. Higuera , I. J. Howley , K. Hurtado , M. Jerkins , T. Kafka , J. Kaisen , M. O. Kanter , C. E. Keppel , J. Kilmer , M. Kordosky , A. H. Krajeski , S. A. Kulagin , T. Le , H. Lee , A. G. Leister , G. Locke , G. Maggi , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. M. Marshall , K. S. McFarland , C. L. McGivern , A. M. McGowan , A. Mislivec , J. G. Morfín , J. Mousseau , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , G. Niculescu , I. Niculescu , N. Ochoa , C. D. O'Connor , J. Olsen , B. Osmanov , J. Osta , J. L. Palomino , V. Paolone , J. Park , C. E. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , C. Peña , L. Rakotondravohitra , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , L. Ren , P. A. Rodrigues , C. Rude , K. E. Sassin , H. Schellman , D. W. Schmitz , R. M. Schneider , E. C. Schulte , C. Simon , F. D. Snider , M. C. Snyder , J. T. Sobczyk , C. J. Solano Salinas , N. Tagg , W. Tan , B. G. Tice , G. Tzanakos , J. P. Velásquez , J. Walding , T. Walton , J. Wolcott , B. A. Wolthuis , N. Woodward , G. Zavala , H. B. Zeng , D. Zhang , L. Y. Zhu , B. P. Ziemer

SciNO$\nu$A: A measurement of neutrino-nucleus scattering in a narrow-band beam

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

Event Reconstruction in the NOvA Experiment

The NOvA experiment observes oscillations in two channels (electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance) using a predominantly muon-neutrino NuMI beam. The Near Detector records multiple overlapping neutrino interactions in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-12 Biswaranjan Behera , Gavin Davies , Fernanda Psihas

Measuring the NuMI Beam Flux for MINERvA

MINERvA is employing multiple tools to understand its neutrino beam flux. We utilize external hadron production data, but we also depend heavily on in situ techniques in which we reduce our hadron production uncertainties by tuning our…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Melissa T. Jerkins

Status of a Deep Learning Based Measurement of the Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged-current Cross Section in the NOvA Near Detector

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. It uses the NuMI beam from Fermilab and two sampling calorimeter detectors placed off-axis from the beam. The 293 ton Near Detector measures the unoscillated neutrino energy spectrum,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-12 Biswaranjan Behera

Track Reconstruction in the NOvA Experiment

The NuMI Off-Axis v Appearance (NOvA) experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using a neutrino source created from the NuMI Beamline at Fermilab. The experiment will study the oscillations of muon neutrinos to electron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-09-27 N. Raddatz

Extrapolation Techniques and Systematic Uncertainties in the NO$\nu$A Muon Neutrino Disappearance Analysis

The NOvA long-baseline neutrino experiment consists of two highly active, finely segmented, liquid scintillator detectors located 14.6 mrad off Fermilab's NuMI beam axis, with a Near Detector located at Fermilab, and a Far Detector located…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-03 Louise Suter

A Comparison of the Performance of Compact Neutrino Detector Designs for Nuclear Reactor Safeguards and Monitoring

There has been an increasing interest in the monitoring of nuclear fuel for power reactors by detecting the anti-neutrinos produced during operation. Small liquid scintillator detectors have already demonstrated sensitivity to operational…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 R. W. McKeown , D. E. Reyna

Heterogeneous Point Set Transformers for Segmentation of Multiple View Particle Detectors

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that detects neutrino particles from the NuMI beam at Fermilab. Before data from this experiment can be used in analyses, raw hits in the detector must be matched to their source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Edgar E. Robles , Dikshant Sagar , Alejandro Yankelevich , Jianming Bian , Pierre Baldi , NOvA Collaboration

Measurement of $\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$ charged-current single $\pi^{-}$ production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

The antineutrino scattering channel $\bar{\nu}_{\mu} \,\text{CH} \rightarrow \mu^{+} \,\pi^{-} \,X$(nucleon(s)) is analyzed in the incident energy range 1.5 to 10 GeV using the MINERvA detector at Fermilab. Differential cross sections are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-09-25 T. Le , F. Akbar , L. Aliaga , D. A. Andrade , M. V. Ascencio , A. Bashyal , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , A. Bodek , J. L. Bonilla , A. Bravar , H. Budd , G. Caceres , T. Cai , M. F. Carneiro , D. Coplowe , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Díaz , 5 J. Felix , L. Fields , A. Filkins , R. Fine , N. Fiza , A. M. Gago , H. Gallagher , A. Ghosh , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , S. Henry , S. Jena , J. Kleykamp , M. Kordosky , D. Last , X. -G. Lu , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. Mauger , K. S. McFarland , A. M. McGowan , B. Messerly , J. Miller , J. G. Morfín , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , C. Nguyen , A. Norrick , Nuruzzaman , A. Olivier , V. Paolone , G. N. Perdue , M. A. Ramírez , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , D. Rimal , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , J. T. Sobczyk , C. J. Solano Salinas , H. Su , M. Sultana , V. S. Syrotenko , E. Valencia , M. Wospakrik , B. Yaeggy , L. Zazueta

Neutrino oscillometry at the next generation neutrino observatory

The large next generation liquid-scintillator detector LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) offers an excellent opportunity for neutrino oscillometry. The characteristic spatial pattern of very low monoenergetic neutrino disappearance from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-14 Yu. N. Novikov , T. Enqvist , A. N. Erykalov , F. v. Feilitzsch , J. Hissa , K. Loo , D. A. Nesterenko , L. Oberauer , F. Thorne , W. Trzaska , J. D. Vergados , M. Wurm

Initial Results for Electron-Neutrino Appearance in MINOS

MINOS is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to make precision measurements of the neutrino mixing parameters associated with the atmospheric neutrino mass splitting. Using a neutrino beam from the Main Injector (NuMI)…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-15 Mayly C. Sanchez

First Results of $\nu_e$ Appearance Analysis and Electron Neutrino Identification at NOvA

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

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-05 Jianming Bian

Simultaneous measurement of proton and lepton kinematics in quasielastic-like $\nu_{\mu}$-hydrocarbon interactions from 2 to 20 GeV

Neutrino charged-current quasielastic-like scattering, a reaction category extensively used in neutrino oscillation measurements, probes nuclear effects that govern neutrino-nucleus interactions. This Letter reports the first measurement of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-05-26 The MINERvA Collaboration , D. Ruterbories , S. Akhter , Z. Ahmad Dar , F. Akbar , V. Ansari , M. V. Ascencio , M. Sajjad Athar , A. Bashyal , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , A. Bodek , J. L. Bonilla , A. Bravar , H. Budd , G. Caceres , T. Cai , M. F. Carneiro , G. A. Díaz , H. da Motta , J. Felix , L. Fields , A. Filkins , R. Fine , A. M. Gago , H. Gallagher , P. K. Gaur , A. Ghosh , S. M. Gilligan , R. Gran , E. Haase , D. A. Harris , S. Henry , K. Jacobsen , D. Jena , S. Jena , J. Kleykamp , A. Klustová , M. Kordosky , D. Last , A. Lozano , X. -G. Lu , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. Mauger , K. S. McFarland , A. M. McGowan , B. Messerly , J. Miller , O. Moreno , J. G. Morfín , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , C. Nguyen , A. Olivier , V. Paolone , G. N. Perdue , K. -J. Plows , M. A. Ramírez , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , H. Schellman , C. J. Solano Salinas , H. Su , M. Sultana , V. S. Syrotenko , E. Valencia , N. H. Vaughan , A. V. Waldron , M. O. Wascko , C. Wret , B. Yaeggy , L. Zazueta

Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos

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

NOvA Proposal to Build a 30 Kiloton Off-Axis Detector to Study Neutrino Oscillations in the Fermilab NuMI Beamline

This is an updated version of the NOvA proposal. The detector is a 30 kiloton tracking calorimeter, 15.7 m by 15.7 m by 132 m long, with alternating horizontal and vertical rectangular cells of liquid scintillator contained in PVC extrusion…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 The NOvA Collaboration , D. Ayres

Measurement of inclusive charged-current $\nu_{\numu}$ scattering on hydrocarbon at {<Enu>} 6 GeV with low three-momentum transfer

The \minerva experiment reports double-differential cross-section measurements for $\nu_{\mu}$-carbon interactions with three-momentum transfer $|\vec{q}| < 1.2$ GeV obtained with medium energy exposures in the NuMI beam. These measurements…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-08-17 M. V. Ascencio , D. A. Andrade , I. Mahbub , Z. Ahmad Dar , F. Akbar , A. Bashyal , S. Bender , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , A. Bodek , J. L. Bonilla , K. Bonin , H. Budd , T. Cai , M. F. Carneiro , G. A. Diaz , H. da Motta , J. Felix , L. Fields , A. Filkins , R. Fine , N. Fuad , A. M. Gago , H. Gallagher , A. Ghosh , R. Gran , T. Haluptzok , D. A. Harris , S. Henry , S. Jena , D. Jena , J. Kleykamp , A. Klustova , M. Kordosky , D. Last , A. Lozano , X. -G. Lu , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. Mauger , K. S. McFarland , J. Miller , J. G. Morfin , J. K. Nelson , 4C. Nguyen , A. Olivier , V. Paolone , G. N. Perdue , K. -J. Plows , M. A. Ramirez , H. Ray , B. J. Reed , P. A. Rodrigues , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , C. J. Solano Salinas , H. Su , M. Sultana , E. Valencia , N. H. Vaughan , A. V. Waldron , C. Wret , B. Yaeggy , K. Yang , L. Zazueta

The Preparation Status and Plan for the Next Physics Run of the NINJA Experiment

The NINJA experiment aims to precisely measure neutrino-nucleus interactions using a nuclear emulsion detector to reduce systematic errors in neutrino oscillation experiments. The nuclear emulsion has a sub-micron positional resolution,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-09 Naoki Otani

Observing the Next Galactic Supernova with the NOvA Detectors

The next galactic core-collapse supernova will deliver a wealth of neutrinos which for the first time we are well-situated to measure. These explosions produce neutrinos with energies between 10 and 100 MeV over a period of tens of seconds.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-03 Justin A. Vasel , Andrey Sheshukov , Alec Habig