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Electromagnetic and Hadron Calorimeters in the MIPP Experiment

The purpose of the MIPP experiment is to study the inclusive production of photons, pions, kaons and nucleons in pi, K and p interactions on various targets using beams from the Main Injector at Fermilab. The function of the calorimeters is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-03-19 T. S. Nigmanov , H. R. Gustafson , M. J. Longo , H. K. Park , D. Rajaram , C. Dukes , L. C. Lu , C. Materniak , K. Nelson , A. Norman , H. Meyer , A. Lebedev , S. Seun , N. Graf , J. M. Paley , G. Aydin , Y. Gunaydin , D. E. Miller

First measurement of electron neutrino appearance in NOvA

We report results from the first search for $\nu_\mu\to\nu_e$ transitions by the NOvA experiment. In an exposure equivalent to $2.74\times10^{20}$ protons-on-target in the upgraded NuMI beam at Fermilab, we observe 6 events in the Far…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-05-03 P. Adamson , C. Ader , M. Andrews , N. Anfimov , I. Anghel , K. Arms , E. Arrieta-Diaz , A. Aurisano , D. S. 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

Measurement of the Multi-Neutron $\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$ Charged Current Differential Cross Section at Low Available Energy on Hydrocarbon

Neutron production in antineutrino interactions can lead to bias in energy reconstruction in neutrino oscillation experiments, but these interactions have rarely been studied. MINERvA previously studied neutron production at an average…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-23 A. Olivier , T. Cai , S. Akhter , Z. Ahmad Dar , V. Ansari , M. V. Ascencio , M. Sajjad Athar , A. Bashyal , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , J. L. Bonilla , A. Bravar , H. Budd , G. Caceres , G. A. Díaz , J. Felix , L. Fields , A. Filkins , R. Fine , A. M. Gago , P. K. Gaur , S. M. Gilligan , R. Gran , E. Granados , D. A. Harris , A. L. Hart , D. Jena , S. Jena , J. Kleykamp , A. Klustová , M. Kordosky , D. Last , A. Lozano , X. -G. Lu , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. Mauger , K. S. McFarland , B. Messerly , O. Moreno , J. G. Morfín , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , C. Nguyen , V. Paolone , G. N. Perdue , C. Pernas , K. -J. Plows , M. A. Ramírez , H. Ray , N. Roy , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , C. J. Solano Salinas , M. Sultana , V. S. Syrotenko , E. Valencia , N. H. Vaughan , A. V. Waldron , B. Yaeggy , L. Zazueta

Neutrino Flux Predictions for the NuMI Beam

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-05-26 MINERvA Collaboration , L. Aliaga , M. Kordosky , T. Golan , O. Altinok , L. Bellantoni , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , A. Bravar , H. Budd , M. F. Carneiro , G. A. Diaz , E. Endress , J. Felix , L. Fields , R. Fine , A. M. Gago , R. Galindo , H. Gallagher , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , A. Higuera , K. Hurtado , M. Kiveni , J. Kleykamp , T. Le , E. Maher , 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 , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , A. Norrick , Nuruzzaman , V. Paolone , J. Park , C. E. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , L. Ren , D. Rimal , P. A. Rodrigues , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , C. J. Solano Salinas , S. Sanchez Falero , B. G. Tice , E. Valencia , T. Walton , J. Wolcott , M. Wospakrik , D. Zhang

Neutral pion reconstruction using machine learning in the MINERvA experiment at $\langle E_\nu \rangle \sim 6$ GeV

This paper presents a novel neutral-pion reconstruction that takes advantage of the machine learning technique of semantic segmentation using MINERvA data collected between 2013-2017, with an average neutrino energy of $6$ GeV. Semantic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-04-12 A. Ghosh , B. Yaeggy , R. Galindo , Z. Ahmad Dar , F. Akbar , M. V. Ascencio , A. Bashyal , A. Bercellie , J. L. Bonilla , G. Caceres , T. Cai , M. F. Carneiro , H. da Motta , G. A. Díaz , J. Felix , A. Filkins , R. Fine , A. M. Gago , T. Golan , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , S. Henry , S. Jena , D. Jena , J. Kleykamp , M. Kordosky , D. Last , T. Len , A. Lozano , X. -G. Lu , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. Mauger , K. S. McFarland , B. Messerly , J. Miller , Luis M. Montano , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , C. Nguyen , A. Olivier , V. Paolone , G. N. Perdue , M. A. Ramírez , H. Ray , D. Ruterbories , C. J. Solano Salinas , H. Su , M. Sultana , V. S. Syrotenko , E. Valencia , M. Wospakrik , C. Wret , K. Yang , L. Zazueta

Studies of the Response of the Prototype CMS Hadron Calorimeter, Including Magnetic Field Effects, to Pion, Electron, and Muon Beams

We report on the response of a prototype CMS hadron calorimeter module to charged particle beams of pions, muons, and electrons with momenta up to 375 GeV/c. The data were taken at the H2 and H4 beamlines at CERN in 1995 and 1996. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 V. V. Abramov , B. S. Acharya , N. Akchurin , I. Atanasov , G. Baiatian , A. Ball , S. Banerjee , P. de Barbaro , V. Barnes , G. Bencze , A. Bodek , M. Booke , H. Budd , L. Cremaldi , P. Cushman , S. R. Dugad , L. Dimitrov , A. Dyshkant , J. Elias , V. N. Evdokimov , D. Fong , J. Freeman , V. Genchev , P. I. Goncharov , D. Green , A. Gurtu , V. Hagopian , P. Iaydijiev , Yu. Korneev , A. Krinitsyn , G. Krishnaswami , M. R. Krishnaswamy , V. Kryshkin , S. Kunori , A. Laasanen et. al

Forward production of charged pions with incident $\pi^{\pm}$ on nuclear targets measured at the CERN PS

Measurements of the double-differential $\pi^{\pm}$ production cross-section in the range of momentum $0.5 \GeVc \leq p \le 8.0 \GeVc$ and angle $0.025 \rad \leq \theta \le 0.25 \rad$ in interactions of charged pions on beryllium, carbon,…

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

Search for an Anomalous Production of Charged-Current $\nu_e$ Interactions Without Visible Pions Across Multiple Kinematic Observables in MicroBooNE

This Letter presents an investigation of low-energy electron-neutrino interactions in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam by the MicroBooNE experiment, motivated by the excess of electron-neutrino-like events observed by the MiniBooNE…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-16 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , D. Andrade Aldana , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , A. Barnard , G. Barr , D. Barrow , J. Barrow , V. Basque , J. Bateman , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhat , M. Bhattacharya , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , M. B. Brunetti , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , A. Chappell , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , R. Cross , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , P. Englezos , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , C. Fang , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , F. Gao , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , L. Hagaman , M. D. Handley , O. Hen , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hussain , B. Irwin , M. S. Ismail , C. James , X. Ji , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , D. Kalra , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , N. Lane , J. -Y. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , L. Liu , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , T. Mahmud , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , N. Martinez , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , S. Martynenko , A. Mastbaum , I. Mawby , N. McConkey , L. Mellet , J. Mendez , J. Micallef , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , M. M. Moudgalya , S. Mulleria Babu , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , C. Nguyen , J. Nowak , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , K. Pletcher , I. Pophale , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , I. Safa , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , A. Trettin , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , J. Wang , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , K. Wresilo , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Electron Neutrino Energy Reconstruction in NOvA Using CNN Particle IDs

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

Exploring Nuclear Effects in Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions Using Measurements of Transverse Kinematic Imbalance from T2K and MINERvA

Predictions from widely-used neutrino-nucleus interaction event generators are compared to measurements of transverse kinematic imbalances, made by both the T2K and MINERvA experiments, to allow a joint characterisation of the nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-05 Stephen Dolan

Ultra-Fast Hadronic Calorimetry

Calorimeters for particle physics experiments with integration time of a few ns will substantially improve the capability of the experiment to resolve event pileup and to reject backgrounds. In this paper the time development of hadronic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-24 Dmitri Denisov , Strahinja Lukić , Nikolai Mokhov , Sergei Striganov , Predrag Ujić

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

Measurement of neutrino velocity with the MINOS detectors and NuMI neutrino beam

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

HARP Collaboration results on the proton-nuclei interactions at few GeV energies

Recent results obtained by the HARP collaboration on the measurements of the double-differential production cross-section of positive and negative pions in proton interactions with nuclear targets from Beryllium to Lead are presented. They…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Roumen Tsenov

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

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

Performance of a fine-sampling electromagnetic calorimeter prototype in the energy range from 1 to 19 GeV

The fine-sampling electromagnetic calorimeter prototype has been experimentally tested using the 1-19 GeV/c tagged beams of negatively charged particles at the U70 accelerator at IHEP, Protvino. The energy resolution measured by electrons…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-08-05 Yu. V. Kharlov , P. A. Semenov , Yu. A. Matulenko , O. P. Yushchenko , Yu. I. Arestov , G. I. Britvich , S. K. Chernichenko , Yu. M. Goncharenko , A. M. Davidenko , A. A. Derevschikov , A. S. Konstantinov , V. A. Kormilitsyn , V. I. Kravtsov , Yu. M. Melnik , A. P. Meschanin , N. G. Minaev , V. V. Mochalov , D. A. Morozov , A. V. Ryazantsev , I. V. Shein , A. P. Soldatov , L. F. Soloviev , A. V. Soukhikh , A. N. Vasiliev , M. N. Ukhanov , V. G. Vasilchenko , A. E. Yakutin

Measurement of electron neutrino CCQE-like cross-section in MINERvA

The electron-neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE) cross-section on nuclei is an important input parameter to appearance-type neutrino oscillation experiments. Current experiments typically work from the muon neutrino cross-section…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jeremy Wolcott

A large area plastic scintillator detector array for fast neutron measurements

A large area plastic scintillator detector array(~ 1 m x1m) has been set up for fast neutron spectroscopy at the BARC-TIFR Pelletron laboratory, Mumbai. The energy, time and position response has been measured for electrons using…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-01-16 P. C. Rout , D. R. Chakrabarty , V. M. Datar , Suresh Kumar , E. T. Mirgule , A. Mitra , V. Nanal , R. Kujur

Hadron production measurements at NA61/SHINE for precise determination of accelerator neutrino fluxes

The total systematic uncertainty of the neutrino flux in accelerator-based neutrino experiments is dominated by the Monte Carlo modeling of hadronic interactions. Direct hadron production measurements for T2K and Fermilab neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-11-03 Simona Ilieva