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Exploring Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the GeV Regime using MINERvA

With the advance of particle accelerator and detector technologies, the neutrino physics landscape is rapidly expanding. As neutrino oscillation experiments enter the intensity and precision frontiers, neutrino-nucleus interaction…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-11-17 X. -G. Lu , Z. Ahmad Dar , F. Akbar , D. A. Andrade , M. V. Ascencio , G. D. Barr , A. Bashyal , L. Bellantoni , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , A. Bodek , J. L. Bonilla , H. Budd , G. Caceres , T. Cai , M. F. Carneiro , H. da Motta , G. A. Diaz , J. Felix , L. Fields , A. Filkins , R. Fine , A. M. Gago , H. Gallagher , S. M. Gilligan , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , S. Henry , D. Jena , S. Jena , J. Kleykamp , A. Klustova , M. Kordosky , D. Last , A. Lozano , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. Mauger , K. S. McFarland , A. M. McGowan , B. Messerly , J. Miller , J. G. Morfin , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , C. Nguyen , A. Olivier , V. Paolone , G. N. Perdue , K. -J. Plows , M. A. Ramirez , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , P. A. Rodrigues , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , C. J. Solano Salinas , H. Su , M. Sultana , V. S. Syrotenko , E. Valencia , A. V. Waldron , D. Wark , A. Weber , K. Yang , L. Zazueta

The MINERvA Neutrino Interaction Experiment

The MINERvA neutrino interaction experiment in the NuMI beam at Fermilab will measure several aspects of neutrino interactions in the few GeV energy region. We will make cross section and form factor measurements using a fine-grained fully…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard Gran

MINERvA Detector: Description and Performance

The MINERvA experiment is aimed at precisely measuring the cross-sections for various neutrino interaction channels. It is located at Fermilab in the underground cavern in front of MINOS near detector. MINERvA is a fine-grained scintillator…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-09-14 Bari Osmanov

Charged-current quasielastic scattering of muon antineutrino and neutrino in the MINERvA experiment

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

Experimental status of neutrino scattering

After highlighting the importance of neutrino cross section modeling for neutrino oscillation measurements, the most recent neutrino cross section measurements are presented. New preliminary results are available from T2K for the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-10-17 Sara Bolognesi

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

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

MINERvA neutrino detector response measured with test beam data

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-04-09 MINERvA Collaboration , L. Aliaga , O. Altinok , C. Araujo Del Castillo , L. Bagby , L. Bellantoni , W. F. Bergan , A. Bodek , R. Bradford , A. Bravar , H. Budd , A. Butkevich , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , M. F. Carneiro , M. E. Christy , J. Chvojka , H. da Motta , J. Devan , G. A. Diaz , S. A. Dytman , B. Eberly , J. Felix , L. Fields , R. Fine , R. Flight , A. M. Gago , C. Gingu , T. Golan , A. Gomez , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , A. Higuera , I. J. Howley , K. Hurtado , J. Kleykamp , M. Kordosky , M. Lanari , T. Le , A. J. Leister , A. Lovlein , E. Maher , W. A. Mann , C. M. Marshall , K. S. McFarland , C. L. McGivern , A. M. McGowan , B. Messerly , J. Miller , W. Miller , A. Mislivec , J. G. Morfin , J. Mousseau , T. Muhlbeier , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , A. Norrick , N. Ochoa , C. D. OConnor , B. Osmanov , J. Osta , V. Paolone , C. E. Patrick , L. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , C. E. Perez Lara , L. Rakotondravohitra , M. A. Ramirez , H. Ray , L. Ren , P. A. Rodrigues , P. Rubinov , C. R. Rude , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , D. W. Schmitz , C. J. Solano Salinas , N. Tagg , B. G. Tice , Z. Urrutia , E. Valencia , T. Walton , A. Westerberg , J. Wolcott , N. Woodward , M. Wospakrik , G. Zavala , D. Zhang , B. P. Ziemer

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

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

NOvA Recent Results with Neutrino+Antineutrino Data

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using Fermilab's 700 kW NuMI muon neutrino beam. Two functionally identical scintillator detectors are placed off the beam axis, separated by 810 km oscillation baseline. Both…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-05-23 Tomas Nosek

Recent Cross Section Work From NOvA

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

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

Comparisons and challenges of modern neutrino-scattering experiments (TENSIONS 2019 report)

A set of comparisons among neutrino interaction experiments (MiniBooNE, MINERvA, T2K, and MicroBooNE) is presented. This gives a broad view of the field of neutrino-nucleus interactions. The emphasis is on charged current inclusive,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-12-24 M. Buizza Avanzini , M. Betancourt , D. Cherdack , M. Del Tutto , S. Dytman , A. P. Furmanski , S. Gardiner , Y. Hayato , L. Koch , K. Mahn , A. Mastbaum , B. Messerly , C. Riccio , D. Ruterbories , J. Sobczyk , C. Wilkinson , C. Wret

MINERvA Status and Event Reconstruction

MINERvA (Main INjector ExpeRiment v-A) is a few-GeV neutrino scattering experiment that began taking data in the NuMI beam at Fermilab (FNAL) in the Fall of 2009. MINERvA employs a fine-grained detector, with an eight ton active target…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Gabriel N. Perdue

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

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

Identification of nuclear effects in neutrino-carbon interactions at low three-momentum transfer

Two different nuclear-medium effects are isolated using a low three-momentum transfer subsample of neutrino-carbon scattering data from the MINERvA neutrino experiment. The observed hadronic energy in charged-current $\nu_\mu$ interactions…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-09-24 P. A. Rodrigues , J. Demgen , E. Miltenberger , L. Aliaga , O. Altinok , L. Bellantoni , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , A. Bodek , A. Bravar , H. Budd , T. Kai , M. F. Carneiro , J. Chvojka , J. Devan , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Diaz , B. Eberly , M. Elkins , J. Felix , L. Fields , R. Fine , A. M. Gago , R. Galindo , H. Gallagher , A. Ghosh , T. Golan , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , A. Higuera , K. Hurtado , M. Kiveni , J. Kleykamp , M. Kordosky , T. Le , J. R. Leistico , A. Lovlein , 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. Morfin , J. Mousseau , T. Muhlbeier , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , A. Norrick , Nuruzzaman , J. Osta , V. Paolone , C. E. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , M. A. Ramirez , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , L. Ren , D. Rimal , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , D. W. Schmitz , C. J. Solano Salinas , N. Tagg , B. G. Tice , E. Valencia , T. Walton , J. Wolcott , M. Wospakrik , G. Zavala , D. Zhang

Design, Calibration, and Performance of the MINERvA Detector

The MINERvA experiment is designed to perform precision studies of neutrino-nucleus scattering using $\nu_\mu$ and ${\bar\nu}_\mu$ neutrinos incident at 1-20 GeV in the NuMI beam at Fermilab. This article presents a detailed description of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-03-12 L. Aliaga , L. Bagby , B. Baldin , A. Baumbaugh , A. Bodek , R. Bradford , W. K. Brooks , D. Boehnlein , S. Boyd , H. Budd , A. Butkevich , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , C. M. Castromonte , M. E. Christy , J. Chvojka , H. da Motta , D. S. Damiani , I. Danko , M. Datta , R. DeMaat , J. Devan , E. Draeger , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Diaz , B. Eberly , D. A. Edmondson , J. Felix , L. Fields , G. A. Fiorentini , A. M. Gago , H. Gallagher , C. A. George , C. Gingu , B. Gobbi , R. Gran , N. Grossman , D. A. Harris , J. Heaton , A. Higuera , J. A. Hobbs , I. J. Howley , K. Hurtado , M. Jerkins , T. Kafka , M. O. Kantner , C. Keppel , J. Kilmer , A. H. Krajeski , 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 , J. G. Morfin , J. Mousseau , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , G. Niculescu , I. Niculescu , C. D. O'Connor , N. Ochoa , J. Olsen , B. Osmanov , J. Osta , J. L. Palomino , V. Paolone , J. Park , G. N. Perdue , C. Pena , A. Pla-Dalmau , L. Rakotondravohitra , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , L. Ren , P. Rubinov , C. Rude , K. E. Sassin , H. Schellman , D. W. Schmitz , R. M. Schneider , C. Simon , F. D. Snider , M. C. Snyder , C. J. Solano Salinas , N. Tagg , B. G. Tice , R. N. Tilden , G. Tzanakos , J. P. Velasquez , T. Walton , A. Westerberg , J. Wolcott , B. A. Wolthuis , N. Woodward , T. Wytock , G. Zavala , D. Zhang , L. Y. Zhu , B. P. Ziemer

Neutrino Interactions

The advent of very high intensity neutrino beams for the study of neutrino oscillations has also made possible a new generation of experiments which will study neutrino interactions on different nuclei with unprecedented precision. The use…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-11-15 Ronald D. Ransome