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We measure a large set of observables in inclusive charged current muon neutrino scattering on argon with the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber operating at Fermilab. We evaluate three neutrino interaction models based on the…

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Discrimination of parametrizations for nuclear effects in neutrino scattering through comparisons of low (~ 700 MeV) and medium (~ 3 GeV) energy cross-section data

High-quality charged current quasielastic scattering data have recently been reported for both muon neutrinos and antineutrinos from several accelerator-based neutrino experiments. Measurements from MiniBooNE were the first to indicate that…

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Coherent pion production in neutrino (anti-neutrino)-nucleus interaction

We present a study of coherent pion production in neutrino-nucleus interactions using the formalism based on partially conserved axial current theorem which connects the neutrino-nucleus cross section to the pion-nucleus elastic scattering…

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Measurement of inclusive charged-current $\nu_\mu$ cross sections as a function of muon kinematics at $<E_\nu>\sim6~GeV$ on hydrocarbon

MINERvA presents a new analysis of inclusive charged-current neutrino interactions on a hydrocarbon target. We report single and double-differential cross sections in muon transverse and longitudinal momentum. These measurements are…

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Coherent Pions From Neutrino Scattering Off Nuclei

We describe a model for pion production off nucleons and coherent pions from nuclei induced by neutrinos in the 1 GeV energy regime. Besides the dominant Delta pole contribution, it takes into account the effect of background terms required…

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Charged Pion Production in $\nu_\mu$ Interactions on Hydrocarbon at $\langle E_{\nu}\rangle$= 4.0 GeV

Charged pion production via charged current $\nu_{\mu}$ interactions on plastic (CH) is studied using the MINERvA detector exposed to the NuMI wideband neutrino beam at Fermilab. Events with hadronic invariant mass W $<$ 1.4 GeV are…

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The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator

GENIE is a new neutrino event generator for the experimental neutrino physics community. The goal of the project is to develop a `canonical' neutrino interaction physics Monte Carlo whose validity extends to all nuclear targets and neutrino…

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Pion production in neutrino interactions with nuclei

Neutrino-induced pion production on nuclear targets is the major inelastic channel in all present-day neutrino-oscillation experiments. It has to be understood quantitatively in order to be able to reconstruct the neutrino-energy at…

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Modeling neutrino-induced charged pion production on water at T2K kinematics

Pion production is a significant component of the signal in accelerator-based neutrino experiments. Over the last years, the MiniBooNE, T2K and MINERvA collaborations have reported a substantial amount of data on (anti)neutrino-induced pion…

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Measurement of charged-current $\nu_\mu$ and $\bar{\nu}_\mu$ cross sections on hydrocarbon in a shallow inelastic scattering region

This MINERvA analysis is the first neutrino and antineutrino study of a shallow inelastic scattering region, which is the transition region between resonant production and deep inelastic scattering processes. This transition is explicitly…

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On Impact of Nuclear Effects on Weak Pion Production in Sub 1 GeV Energy Region

Charged-current single pion production in scattering off 12C is investigated for neutrino energies up to 1 GeV. An impact of nuclear effects with in-medium modifications of the Delta(1232) resonance properties as well as an effective field…

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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…

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Pion production within the hybrid relativistic plane wave impulse approximation model at MiniBooNE and MINERvA kinematics

The hybrid model for electroweak single-pion production (SPP) off the nucleon, presented in [Gonz\'alez-Jim\'enez et al., Phys. Rev. D 95, 113007 (2017)], is extended here to the case of incoherent pion-production on the nucleus. Combining…

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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…

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Implementation and investigation of electron-nucleus scattering in the \textsc{NEUT} neutrino event generator

Understanding nuclear effects is essential for improving the sensitivity of neutrino oscillation measurements. Validating nuclear models solely through neutrino scattering data is challenging due to limited statistics and the broad energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-25 Seisho Abe

First combined tuning on transverse kinematic imbalance data with and without pion production constraints

We present the first combined tuning, using GENIE, of four transverse kinematic imbalance measurements of neutrino-hydrocarbon scattering, both with and without pion final states, from the T2K and MINERvA experiments. As a proof of concept,…

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Measurement of neutron production in atmospheric neutrino interactions at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Neutron production in GeV-scale neutrino interactions is a poorly studied process. We have measured the neutron multiplicities in atmospheric neutrino interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory experiment and compared them to the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-20 SNO Collaboration , B. Aharmim , S. N. Ahmed , A. E. Anthony , N. Barros , E. W. Beier , A. Bellerive , B. Beltran , M. Bergevin , S. D. Biller , R. Bonventre , K. Boudjemline , M. G. Boulay , B. Cai , E. J. Callaghan , J. Caravaca , Y. D. Chan , D. Chauhan , M. Chen , B. T. Cleveland , G. A. Cox , X. Dai , H. Deng , F. B. Descamps , J. A. Detwiler , P. J. Doe , G. Doucas , P. -L. Drouin , M. Dunford , S. R. Elliott , H. C. Evans , G. T. Ewan , J. Farine , H. Fergani , F. Fleurot , R. J. Ford , J. A. Formaggio , N. Gagnon , K. Gilje , J. TM. Goon , K. Graham , E. Guillian , S. Habib , R. L. Hahn , A. L. Hallin , E. D. Hallman , P. J. Harvey , R. Hazama , W. J. Heintzelman , J. Heise , R. L. Helmer , A. Hime , C. Howard , M. Huang , P. Jagam , B. Jamieson , N. A. Jelley , M. Jerkins , K. J. Keeter , J. R. Klein , L. L. Kormos , M. Kos , A. Kruger , C. Kraus , C. B. Krauss , T. Kutter , C. C. M. Kyba , B. J. Land , R. Lange , J. Law , I. T. Lawson , K. T. Lesko , J. R. Leslie , I. Levine , J. C. Loach , R. MacLellan , S. Majerus , H. B. Mak , J. Maneira , R. D. Martin , A. Mastbaum , N. McCauley , A. B. McDonald , S. R. McGee , M. L. Miller , B. Monreal , J. Monroe , B. G. Nickel , A. J. Noble , H. M. O'Keeffe , N. S. Oblath , C. E. Okada , R. W. Ollerhead , G. D. Orebi Gann , S. M. Oser , R. A. Ott , S. J. M. Peeters , A. W. P. Poon , G. Prior , S. D. Reitzner , K. Rielage , B. C. Robertson , R. G. H. Robertson , M. H. Schwendener , J. A. Secrest , S. R. Seibert , O. Simard , D. Sinclair , J. Singh , P. Skensved , M. Smiley , T. J. Sonley , L. C. Stonehill , G. Tesic , N. Tolich , T. Tsui , R. Van Berg , B. A. VanDevender , C. J. Virtue , B. L. Wall , D. Waller , H. Wan Chan Tseung , D. L. Wark , J. Wendland , N. West , J. F. Wilkerson , J. R. Wilson , T. Winchester , A. Wright , M. Yeh , F. Zhang , K. Zuber

Measurement of Partonic Nuclear Effects in Deep-Inelastic Neutrino Scattering using MINERvA

The MINERvA collaboration reports a novel study of neutrino-nucleus charged-current deep inelastic scattering (DIS) using the same neutrino beam incident on targets of polystyrene, graphite, iron, and lead. Results are presented as ratios…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-10-04 MINERvA Collaboration , J. Mousseau , M. Wospakrik , L. Aliaga , O. Altinok , L. Bellantoni , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , A. Bodek , A. Bravar , H. Budd , T. Cai , M. F. Carneiro , M. E. Christy , J. Chvojka , H. da Motta , J. Devan , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Díaz , B. Eberly , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , J. Wolcott , G. Zavala , D. Zhang

A Hadronization Model for Few-GeV Neutrino Interactions

We present a detailed description of a new hadronic multiparticle production model for use in neutrino interaction simulations. Its validity spans a wide invariant mass range starting from pion production threshold. This model focuses on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-19 T. Yang , C. Andreopoulos , H. Gallagher , K. Hoffmann , P. Kehayias

The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator: Physics and User Manual

GENIE is a suite of products for the experimental neutrino physics community. This suite includes i) a modern software framework for implementing neutrino event generators, a state-of-the-art comprehensive physics model and tools to support…

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