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The magnetized steel and scintillator calorimeters of the MINOS experiment

The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment uses an accelerator-produced neutrino beam to perform precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters in the "atmospheric neutrino" sector associated with muon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-12 MINOS Collaboration , D. G. Michael

Status Update for the MINER$\nu$A Experiment

MINER$\nu$A (Main INjEctoR $\nu$-A) is a few-GeV neutrino cross section experiment that began taking data in the FNAL NuMI beam-line in the fall of 2009. MINER$\nu$A employs a fine-grained detector capable of complete kinematic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-10 Gabriel Perdue

Progress of the Charged Pion Semi-Inclusive Neutrino Charged Current Cross Section in NOvA

The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to measure the rates of electron neutrino appearance and muon neutrino disappearance. The NOvA near detector is located at Fermilab, 800 m from the primary…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-10 Aristeidis Tsaris

Study of neutrino interactions with the electronic detectors of the OPERA experiment

The OPERA experiment is based on a hybrid technology combining electronic detectors and nuclear emulsions. OPERA collected muon-neutrino interactions during the 2008 and 2009 physics runs of the CNGS neutrino beam, produced at CERN with an…

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

Data Quality and Performance of the NOvA Prototype Detector

The NOvA project is a long-baseline neutrino experiment. It utilizes the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab and consists of two functionally-identical liquid scintillator filled detectors. The detectors are placed 14 milliradians off-axis from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 S. Lein

Measurement of $\nu_\mu$ Charged-Current Inclusive $\pi^0$ Production in the NOvA Near Detector

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

Measurement of the double-differential cross section of muon-neutrino charged-current interactions with low hadronic energy in the NOvA Near Detector

The NOvA collaboration reports cross-section measurements for $\nu_{\mu}$ charged-current interactions with low hadronic energy (maximum kinetic energy of 250 MeV for protons and 175 MeV for pions) in the NOvA Near Detector. The results are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-13 M. A. Acero , B. Acharya , P. Adamson , L. Aliaga , N. Anfimov , A. Antoshkin , E. Arrieta-Diaz , L. Asquith , A. Aurisano , A. Back , N. Balashov , P. Baldi , B. A. Bambah , E. Bannister , A. Barros , S. Bashar , A. Bat , K. Bays , R. Bernstein , T. J. C. Bezerra , V. Bhatnagar , D. Bhattarai , B. Bhuyan , J. Bian , A. C. Booth , R. Bowles , B. Brahma , C. Bromberg , N. Buchanan , A. Butkevich , S. Calvez , T. J. Carroll , E. Catano-Mur , J. P. Cesar , A. Chatla , R. Chirco , B. C. Choudhary , A. Christensen , M. F. Cicala , T. E. Coan , A. Cooleybeck , C. Cortes-Parra , D. Coveyou , L. Cremonesi , G. S. Davies , P. F. Derwent , P. Ding , Z. Djurcic , K. Dobbs , M. Dolce , D. Doyle , D. Dueñas Tonguino , E. C. Dukes , A. Dye , R. Ehrlich , E. Ewart , P. Filip , M. J. Frank , H. R. Gallagher , F. Gao , A. Giri , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , M. Groh , R. Group , A. Habig , F. Hakl , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , M. He , K. Heller , V Hewes , A. Himmel , T. Horoho , Y. Ivaneev , A. Ivanova , B. Jargowsky , J. Jarosz , C. Johnson , M. Judah , I. Kakorin , D. M. Kaplan , A. Kalitkina , B. Kirezli-Ozdemir , J. Kleykamp , O. Klimov , L. W. Koerner , L. Kolupaeva , R. Kralik , A. Kumar , V. Kus , T. Lackey , K. Lang , J. Lesmeister , A. Lister , J. Liu , J. A. Lock , M. Lokajicek , M. MacMahon , S. Magill , W. A. Mann , M. T. Manoharan , M. Manrique Plata , M. L. Marshak , M. Martinez-Casales , V. Matveev , B. Mehta , M. D. Messier , H. Meyer , T. Miao , W. H. Miller , S. Mishra , S. R. Mishra , A. Mislivec , R. Mohanta , A. Moren , A. Morozova , W. Mu , L. Mualem , M. Muether , K. Mulder , D. Myers , D. Naples , A. Nath , S. Nelleri , J. K. Nelson , R. Nichol , E. Niner , A. Norman , A. Norrick , T. Nosek , H. Oh , A. Olshevskiy , T. Olson , M. Ozkaynak , A. Pal , J. Paley , L. Panda , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , R. Petti , J. C. C. Porter , L. R. Prais , M. Rabelhofer , A. Rafique , V. Raj , M. Rajaoalisoa , B. Ramson , B. Rebel , P. Roy , O. Samoylov , M. C. Sanchez , S. Sanchez Falero , P. Shanahan , P. Sharma , A. Sheshukov , Shivam , A. Shmakov , W. Shorrock , S. Shukla , D. K. Singha , I. Singh , P. Singh , V. Singh , E. Smith , J. Smolik , P. Snopok , N. Solomey , A. Sousa , K. Soustruznik , M. Strait , L. Suter , A. Sutton , K. Sutton , S. Swain , C. Sweeney , A. Sztuc , N. Talukdar , B. Tapia Oregui , P. Tas , T. Thakore , J. Thomas , E. Tiras , M. Titus , Y. Torun , D. Tran , J. Trokan-Tenorio , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , Z. Vallari , J. D. Villamil , K. J. Vockerodt , M. Wallbank , C. Weber , M. Wetstein , D. Whittington , D. A. Wickremasinghe , T. Wieber , J. Wolcott , M. Wrobel , S. Wu , W. Wu , W. Wu , Y. Xiao , B. Yaeggy , A. Yahaya , A. Yankelevich , K. Yonehara , Y. Yu , S. Zadorozhnyy , J. Zalesak , R. Zwaska

Direct Measurement of Nuclear Dependence of Charged Current Quasielastic-like Neutrino Interactions using MINERvA

Charged-current $\nu_{\mu}$ interactions on carbon, iron, and lead with a final state hadronic system of one or more protons with zero mesons are used to investigate the influence of the nuclear environment on quasielastic-like…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-30 M. Betancourt , A. Ghosh , T. Walton , O. Altinok , L. Bellantoni , A. Bercellie , A. Bodek , A. Bravar , T. Cai , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , M. F. Carneiro , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Dıaz , J. Felix , L. Fields , R. Fine , R. Galindo , H. Gallagher , A. Ghosh , T. Golan , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , A. Higuera , K. Hurtado , M. Kiveni , J. Kleykamp , T. Le , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. M. Marshall , K. S. McFarland , C. L. McGivern , A. M. McGowan , B. Messerly , J. Miller , J. G. Morfın , J. Mousseau , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , A. Norrick , Nuruzzaman , C. E. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , M. A. Ramırez , L. Ren , D. Rimal , P. A. Rodrigues , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , J. T. Sobczyk , C. J. Solano Salinas , S. Sanchez Falero , E. Valencia , J. Wolcott , M. Wospakrik , B. Yaeggy

Neutron energy spectrum from 120 GeV protons on a thick copper target

Neutron energy spectrum from 120 GeV protons on a thick copper target was measured at the Meson Test Beam Facility (MTBF) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data allows for evaluation of neutron production process implemented in…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-09 Nobuhiro Shigyo , Toshiya Sanami , Tsuyoshi Kajimoto , Yosuke Iwamoto , Masayuki Hagiwara , Kiwamu Saito , Kenji Ishibashi , Hiroshi Nakashima , Yukio Sakamoto , Hee-Seock Lee , Erik Ramberg , Aria A. Meyhoefer , Rick Coleman , Doug Jensen , Anthony F. Leveling , David J. Boehnlein , Nikolai V. Mokhov

MINOS Results, Progress and Future Prospects

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

Evidence for neutral-current diffractive neutral pion production from hydrogen in neutrino interactions on hydrocarbon

The MINERvA experiment observes an excess of events containing electromagnetic showers relative to the expectation from Monte Carlo simulations in neutral-current neutrino interactions with mean beam energy of 4.5 GeV on a hydrocarbon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-09-14 MINERvA Collaboration , J. Wolcott , L. Aliaga , O. Altinok , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , A. Bodek , A. Bravar , H. Budd , T. Cai , M. F. Carneiro , J. Chvojka , H. da Motta , J. Devan , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Díaz , B. Eberly , E. Endress , J. Felix , L. Fields , R. Fine , R. Galindo , H. Gallagher , T. Golan , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , A. Higuera , K. Hurtado , M. Kiveni , J. Kleykamp , M. Kordosky , T. Le , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. M. Marshall , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. S. McFarland , C. L. McGivern , A. M. McGowan , B. Messerly , J. Miller , A. Mislivec , J. G. Morfín , J. Mousseau , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , A. Norrick , Nuruzzaman , J. Osta , V. Paolone , J. Park , C. E. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , L. Rakotondravohitra , M. A. Ramirez , H. Ray , L. Ren , D. Rimal , P. A. Rodrigues , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , D. W. Schmitz , C. J. Solano Salinas , S. Sánchez Falero , N. Tagg , B. G. Tice , E. Valencia , T. Walton , M. Wospakrik , D. Zhang

Measurement of Quasielastic-Like Neutrino Scattering at $\left< E_\nu \right> \sim 3.5$~ GeV on a Hydrocarbon Target

MINERvA presents a new analysis of neutrino induced quasielastic-like interactions in a hydrocarbon tracking target. We report a double-differential cross section using the muon transverse and longitudinal momentum. In addition,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-01-16 D. Ruterbories , K. Hurtado , J. Osta , F. Akbar , L. Aliaga , D. A. Andrade , M. V. Ascencio , A. Bashyal , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , A. Bodek , H. Budd , G. Caceres , T. Cai , M. F. Carneiro , J. Chaves , D. Coplowe , H. da Motta , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Díaz , J. Felix , L. Fields , A. Filkins , R. Fine , A. M. Gago , R. Galindo , A. Ghosh , R. Gran , J. Y. Han , D. A. Harris , S. Henry , S. Jena , D. Jena , J. Kleykamp , M. Kordosky , D. Last , T. Le , X. -G. Lu , E. Maher , W. A. Mann , C. Mauger , K. S. McFarland , A. M. McGowan , B. Messerly , J. Miller , J. G. Morfín , J. Mousseau , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , C. Nguyen , A. Norrick , Nuruzzaman , A. Olivier , V. Paolone , C. E. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , M. A. Ramírez , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , D. Rimal , P. A. Rodrigues , H. Schellman , J. T. Sobczyk , C. J. Solano Salinas , H. Su , M. Sultana , V. S. Syrotenko , E. Valencia , J. Wolcott , M. Wospakrik , C. Wret , B. Yaeggy , L. Zazueta

Measurement of electron neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon at $\langle E_{\nu} \rangle $ = 3.6 GeV

The first direct measurement of electron-neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region of incident neutrino energy has been carried out using the MINERvA detector in the NuMI beam at Fermilab.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-10 MINERvA Collaboration , J. Wolcott , O. Altinok , L. Bellantoni , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , A. Bodek , A. Bravar , H. Budd , M. F. Carneiro , J. Chvojka , H. da Motta , J. Devan , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Diaz , B. Eberly , J. Felix , L. Fields , R. Fine , R. Galindo , H. Gallagher , A. Ghosh , T. Golan , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , A. Higuera , M. Kiveni , J. Kleykamp , M. Kordosky , T. Le , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. M. Marshall , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. S. McFarland , C. L. McGivern , A. M. McGowan , B. Messerly , J. Miller , A. Mislivec , J. G. Morfin , J. Mousseau , T. Muhlbeier , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , A. Norrick , J. Osta , V. Paolone , J. Park , C. E. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , L. Rakotondravohitra , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , L. Ren , D. Rimal , P. A. Rodrigues , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , D. W. Schmitz , C. J. Solano Salinas , N. Tagg , B. G. Tice , E. Valencia , T. Walton , M. Wospakrik , G. Zavala , D. Zhang , B. P. Ziemer

Measurement of Ratios of $\nu_{\mu}$ Charged-Current Cross Sections on C, Fe, and Pb to CH at Neutrino Energies 2-20 GeV

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-11 B. G. Tice , M. Datta , J. Mousseau , L. Aliaga , O. Altinok , M. G. Barrios Sazo , M. Betancourt , A. Bodek , A. Bravar , W. K. Brooks , H. Budd , M. J. Bustamante , A. Butkevich , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , C. M. Castromonte , M. E. Christy , J. Chvojka , H. da Motta , J. Devan , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Díaz , B. Eberly , J. Felix , L. Fields , G. A. Fiorentini , A. M. Gago , H. Gallagher , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , A. Higuera , K. Hurtado , M. Jerkins , T. Kafka , M. Kordosky , S. A. Kulagin , T. Le , G. Maggi , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. M. Marshall , C. Martin Mari , K. S. McFarland , C. L. McGivern , A. M. McGowan , J. Miller , A. Mislivec , J. G. Morfín , T. Muhlbeier , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , A. Norrick , J. Osta , J. L. Palomino , V. Paolone , J. Park , C. E. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , L. Rakotondravohitra , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , L. Ren , P. A. Rodrigues , D. G. Savage , H. Schellman , D. W. Schmitz , C. Simon , F. D. Snider , C. J. Solano Salinas , N. Tagg , E. Valencia , J. P. Velásquez , T. Walton , J. Wolcott , G. Zavala , D. Zhang , B. P. Ziemer

Measurement of Neutral Current Coherent $\pi^0$ Production In The NOvA Near Detector

The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to measure electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam. It consists of two finely segmented, liquid scintillator detectors at 14 mrad off-axis in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-03 Hongyue Duyang

Measurement of final-state correlations in neutrino muon-proton mesonless production on hydrocarbon at $\langle E_\nu\rangle=3$ GeV

Final-state kinematic imbalances are measured in mesonless production of $\nu_\mu + A \to \mu^- + p + X$ in the MINERvA tracker. Initial- and final-state nuclear effects are probed using the direction of the $\mu^-$-p transverse momentum…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-09-19 X. -G. Lu , M. Betancourt , T. Walton , F. Akbar , L. Aliaga , O. Altinok , D. A. Andrade , M. Ascencio , L. Bellantoni , A. Bercellie , A. Bodek , A. Bravar , H. Budd , T. Cai , M. F. Carneiro , J. Chaves , D. Coplowe , H. da Motta , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Diaz , J. Felix , L. Fields , R. Fine , A. M. Gago , R. Galindo , H. Gallagher , A. Ghosh , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , S. Henry , S. Jena , D. Jena , J. Kleykamp , M. Kordosky , T. Le , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. M. Marshall , K. S. McFarland , A. M. McGowan , B. Messerly , J. Miller , A. Mislivec , J. G. Morfin , J. Mousseau , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , C. Nguyen , A. Norrick , Nuruzzaman , A. Olivier , V. Paolone , C. E. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , M. A. Ramirez , R. D. Ransome , L. Ren , D. Rimal , P. A. Rodrigues , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , J. T. Sobczyk , C. J. Solano Salinas , H. Su , M. Sultana , E. Valencia , D. Wark , A. Weber , J. Wolcott , M. Wospakrik , B. Yaeggy

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

First Measurement of Neutrino Interactions in MicroBooNE

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

Measurement of Charged Pion Production Yields off the NuMI Target

The fixed-target MIPP experiment, Fermilab E907, was designed to measure the production of hadrons from the collisions of hadrons of momenta ranging from 5 to 120 GeV/c on a variety of nuclei. These data will generally improve the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-08-13 J. M. Paley , M. D. Messier , R. Raja , U. Akgun , D. M. Asner , G. Aydin , W. Baker , P. D. Barnes, , T. Bergfeld , L. Beverly , V. Bhatnagar , B. Choudhary , E. C. Dukes , F. Duru , G. J. Feldman , A. Godley , N. Graf , J. Gronberg , E. Gulmez , Y. O. Gunaydin , H. R. Gustafson , E. P. Hartouni , P. Hanlet , M. Heffner , D. M. Kaplan , O. Kamaev , J. Klay , A. Kumar , D. J. Lange , A. Lebedev , J. Ling , M. J. Longo , L. C. Lu , C. Materniak , S. Mahajan , H. Meyer , D. E. Miller , S. R. Mishra , K. Nelson , T. Nigmanov , A. Norman , Y. Onel , A. Penzo , R. J. Peterson , D. Rajaram , D. Ratnikov , C. Rosenfeld , H. Rubin , S. Seun , A. Singh , N. Solomey , R. A. Soltz , Y. Torun , K. Wilson , D. M. Wright , Q. K. Wu

Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors and the NuMI neutrino beam

This letter reports results from the MINOS experiment based on its initial exposure to neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. The rate and energy spectra of charged current muon neutrino interactions are compared in two detectors located…

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