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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

Next generation neutrino oscillation experiments will need a quantitative understanding of neutrino-nucleus interaction far better than ever. Kinematics covered by the relevant neutrino-nucleus interaction spans wide region, from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-28 S. X. Nakamura , Y. Hayato , M. Hirai , H. Kamano , S. Kumano , M. Sakuda , K. Saito , T. Sato

We discuss various issues concerning the interactions of nuclei with neutrinos of low impinging energies (i.e. having several tens of MeV to a few hundred MeV) of interest for particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics. We focus, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristina Volpe

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

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

Measurements of $\nu_{\mu}$ inclusive charged-current cross section ratios on carbon, iron, and lead relative to scintillator are presented. Data for the analysis were collected by the fine-grained MINERvA detector in the NuMI beamline at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Brian G. Tice

We report a study of muon neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic events in the segmented scintillator inner tracker of the MINERvA experiment running in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The events were selected by requiring a {\mu}^- and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-25 The MINERvA collaboration , G. A. Fiorentini , D. W. Schmitz , P. A. Rodrigues , 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 , J. Chvojka , 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 , L. Fields , 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. Morfń , 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 , C. Rude , K. E. Sassin , H. Schellman , 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

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

In neutrino oscillation experiments, neutrino interactions at the detector are simulated using event generators which attempt to reflect our understanding of nuclear physics. We study the impact of different neutrino interactions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Pilar Coloma , Patrick Huber , Chun-Min Jen , Camillo Mariani

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

The MINERvA experiment is designed to make precision measurements of various neutrino cross sections in the low energy regime. We describe the detector and give the performance of some of the measured quantities.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-11-05 H. Budd

The treatment of nuclear effects in neutrino-nucleus interactions is one of the main sources of systematic uncertainty for the analysis and interpretation of data of neutrino oscillation experiments. Neutrinos interact with nuclei via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Carlotta Giusti , Martin V. Ivanov

The study of neutrino-nucleus interactions has recently received renewed attention due to their importance in interpreting the neutrino oscillation data. Over the past few years, there has been continuous disagreement between neutrino cross…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-02-18 Sowjanya Gollapinni

In this review, we discuss the current understanding of charged current (anti)neutrino scattering off nucleons and nuclear targets in the few-GeV energy range, a domain of paramount importance for accelerator and atmospheric neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-25 M. Sajjad Athar

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. It uses the NuMI beam from Fermilab and two sampling calorimeter detectors located off-axis from the beam. The NOvA experiment measures the rate of electron-neutrino appearance in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-12 Biswaranjan Behera

The present uncertainties in the knowledge of the neutrino cross sections for E_nu \sim 1 GeV, that is in the energy range most important for atmospheric and long baseline accelerator neutrinos, are large. These uncertainties do not play a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Paolo Lipari

The NOvA experiment is an off-axis long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment measuring $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance and $\nu_{e}$ appearance in a $\nu_{\mu}$ beam originating at Fermilab. Oscillations are observed in the far detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-01-17 Jeremy Wolcott

We report results from the first search for sterile neutrinos mixing with active neutrinos through a reduction in the rate of neutral-current interactions over a baseline of 810\,km between the NOvA detectors. Analyzing a 14-kton detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-16 NOvA Collaboration , P. Adamson , L. Aliaga , D. Ambrose , N. Anfimov , A. Antoshkin , E. Arrieta-Diaz , K. Augsten , A. Aurisano , C. Backhouse , M. Baird , B. A. Bambah , K. Bays , B. Behera , S. Bending , R. Bernstein , V. Bhatnagar , B. Bhuyan , J. Bian , T. Blackburn , A. Bolshakova , C. Bromberg , J. Brown , G. Brunetti , N. Buchanan , A. Butkevich , V. Bychkov , M. Campbell , E. Catano-Mur , S. Childress , B. C. Choudhary , B. Chowdhury , T. E. Coan , J. A. B. Coelho , M. Colo , J. Cooper , L. Corwin , L. Cremonesi , D. Cronin-Hennessy , G. S. Davies , J. P. Davies , P. F. Derwent , R. Dharmapalan , P. Ding , Z. Djurcic , E. C. Dukes , H. Duyang , S. Edayath , R. Ehrlich , G. J. Feldman , M. J. Frank , M. Gabrielyan , H. R. Gallagher , S. Germani , T. Ghosh , A. Giri , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , V. Grichine , M. Groh , R. Group , D. Grover , B. Guo , A. Habig , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , A. Hatzikoutelis , K. Heller , A. Himmel , A. Holin , B. Howard , J. Hylen , F. Jediny , M. Judah , G. K. Kafka , D. Kalra , S. M. S. Kasahara , S. Kasetti , R. Keloth , L. Kolupaeva , S. Kotelnikov , I. Kourbanis , A. Kreymer , A. Kumar , S. Kurbanov , T. Lackey , K. Lang , W. M. Lee , S. Lin , M. Lokajicek , J. Lozier , S. Luchuk , K. Maan , S. Magill , W. A. Mann , M. L. Marshak , K. Matera , V. Matveev , D. P. Méndez , M. D. Messier , H. Meyer , T. Miao , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , R. Mohanta , A. Moren , L. Mualem , M. Muether , S. Mufson , R. Murphy , J. Musser , J. K. Nelson , R. Nichol , E. Niner , A. Norman , T. Nosek , Y. Oksuzian , A. Olshevskiy , T. Olson , J. Paley , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , D. Pershey , O. Petrova , R. Petti , S. Phan-Budd , R. K. Plunkett , R. Poling , B. Potukuchi , C. Principato , F. Psihas , A. Radovic , R. A. Rameika , B. Rebel , B. Reed , D. Rocco , P. Rojas , V. Ryabov , K. Sachdev , P. Sail , O. Samoylov , M. C. Sanchez , R. Schroeter , J. Sepulveda-Quiroz , P. Shanahan , A. Sheshukov , J. Singh , J. Singh , P. Singh , V. Singh , J. Smolik , N. Solomey , E. Song , A. Sousa , K. Soustruznik , M. Strait , L. Suter , R. L. Talaga , P. Tas , R. B. Thayyullathil , J. Thomas , X. Tian , S. C. Tognini , J. Tripathi , A. Tsaris , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , J. Vasel , L. Vinton , A. Vold , T. Vrba , B. Wang , M. Wetstein , D. Whittington , S. G. Wojcicki , J. Wolcott , N. Yadav , S. Yang , J. Zalesak , B. Zamorano , R. Zwaska

Precise neutrino--nucleus interaction measurements in the sub-multi GeV region are important to reduce the systematic uncertainty in future neutrino oscillation experiments. Furthermore, the excess of ${\nu_e}$ interactions, as a possible…