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Study of Supernova \nu-Nucleus Coherent Scattering Interactions

Presently, there are several experimental setups dedicated to rare event searches, such as dark matter interactions or double beta decay, in the building or commissioning phases. These experiments often use large mass detectors and have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-08 Carlos Martinez Amaya , Matteo Biassoni

Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E_{\nu} ~ 3.5 GeV

We have isolated muon anti-neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic interactions occurring in the segmented scintillator tracking region of the MINERvA detector running in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. We measure the flux-averaged…

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

Measurement of nuclear effects in neutrino interactions with minimal dependence on neutrino energy

We present a phenomenological study of nuclear effects in neutrino charged-current interactions, using transverse kinematic imbalances in exclusive measurements. Novel observables with minimal dependence on neutrino energy are proposed to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 X. -G. Lu , L. Pickering , S. Dolan , G. Barr , D. Coplowe , Y. Uchida , D. Wark , M. O. Wascko , A. Weber , T. Yuan

Model uncertainties for Valencia RPA effect for MINERvA

This technical note describes the application of the Valencia RPA multi-nucleon effect and its uncertainty to QE reactions from the GENIE neutrino event generator. The analysis of MINERvA neutrino data in Rodrigues et al. PRL 116 071802…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-05-09 Richard Gran

Theoretical highlights of neutrino-nucleus interactions

The recent theoretical developments in the field of neutrino-nucleus interactions in the few-GeV region are reviewed based on the presentations made at the NuInt09 Workshop. The topics of electron scattering and its connections with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-05-07 Luis Alvarez-Ruso

Comparison of \nu\mu-Ar multiplicity distributions observed by MicroBooNE to GENIE model predictions

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-17 C. Adams , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , M. Auger , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , M. Bass , F. Bay , A. Bhat , K. Bhattacharya , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , H. Chen , Y. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , E. Cohen , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , A. Diaz , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. Esquivel , J. J Evans , A. A. Fadeeva , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , G. T. Garvey , V. Genty , D. Goeldi , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , H. Greenlee , R. Grosso , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , A. Hackenburg , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , V Hewes , C. Hill , J. Ho , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. -C. Huang , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , L. Jiang , R. A. Johnson , J. Joshi , H. Jostlein , Y. -J. Jwa , D. Kaleko , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , Y. Li , A. Lister , B. R. Littlejohn , S. Lockwitz , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , M. Luethi , B. Lundberg , X. Luo , A. Marchionni , S. Marcocci , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , A. Mastbaum , V. Meddage , T. Mettler , T. Miceli , G. B. Mills , A. Mogan , J. Moon , M. Mooney , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , M. Murphy , R. Murrells , D. Naples , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Pandey , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , D. Porzio , G. Pulliam , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , A. Rafique , L. Rochester , M. Ross-Lonergan , C. Rudolf von Rohr , B. Russell , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , J. Sinclair , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. Sutton , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , W. Tang , K. Terao , M. Thomson , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , T. Usher , W. Van De Pontseele , R. G. Van de Water , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , D. A. Wickremasinghe , K. Wierman , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Woodruff , T. Yang , G. Yarbrough , L. E. Yates , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Improved constraint on the MINERvA medium energy neutrino flux using $\bar{\nu}e^{-} \!\rightarrow \bar{\nu}e^{-}$ data

Processes with precisely known cross sections, like neutrino electron elastic scattering ($\nu e^{-} \!\rightarrow \nu e^{-}$) and inverse muon decay ($\nu_\mu e^{-} \!\rightarrow \mu^{-} \nu_e$) have been used by MINERvA to constrain the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-25 L. Zazueta , 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 , T. Cai , G. A. Díaz , H. da Motta , J. Felix , L. Fields , A. Filkins , R. Fine , A. M. Gago , H. Gallagher , A. Ghosh , S. M. Gilligan , R. Gran , E. Granados , D. A. Harris , S. Henry , D. Jena , S. Jena , J. Kleykamp , A. Klustová , M. Kordosky , D. Last , A. Lozano , X. -G. Lu , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , K. S. McFarland , B. Messerly , J. Miller , O. Moreno , J. G. Morfín , J. K. Nelson , C. Nguyen , A. Olivier , V. Paolone , G. N. Perdue , K. -J. Plows , M. A. Ramírez , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , C. J. Solano Salinas , H. Su , M. Sultana , E. Valencia , N. H. Vaughan , A. V. Waldron , B. Yaeggy

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

New MiniBooNE Results

The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab was designed to be a definitive test of the LSND evidence for neutrino oscillations and has recently reported first results of a search for electron-neutrino appearance in a muon-neutrino Booster beam.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-07-22 Zelimir Djurcic

Neutrino interactions: challenges in the current theoretical picture

The present theoretical status of neutrino interactions in the few-GeV region is reviewed. Quasielastic scattering, pion production, photon emission and their importance for neutrino oscillation studies are discussed, making emphasis on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-20 Luis Alvarez-Ruso

Maximising the DUNE early physics output with current experiments

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a proposed next generation superbeam experiment at Fermilab. Its aims include measuring the unknown neutrino oscillation parameters -- the neutrino mass hierarchy, the octant of the mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-04 Monojit Ghosh , Srubabati Goswami , Sushant K. Raut

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

Sensitivities of Low Energy Reactor Neutrino Experiments

The low energy part of the reactor neutrino spectra has not been experimentally measured. Its uncertainties limit the sensitivities in certain reactor neutrino experiments. The origin of these uncertainties are discussed, and the effects on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-25 Hau-Bin Li , Henry T. Wong

Cherenkov Light in Liquid Scintillator at the NOvA Experiment

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with two functionally identical liquid scintillator tracking detectors, i.e. the Near Detector (ND) and the Far Detector (FD). One of NOvA's physics goal is to measure neutrino…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-30 Shiqi Yu

Measurement of d2sigma/d|q|dEavail in charged current neutrino-nucleus interactions at <Ev> = 1.86 GeV using the NOvA Near Detector

Double- and single-differential cross sections for inclusive charged-current neutrino-nucleus scattering are reported for the kinematic domain 0 to 2 GeV/c in three-momentum transfer and 0 to 2 GeV in available energy, at a mean…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-03-21 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. Duenas 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 , C. D. Kuruppu , 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 , 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 , R. K. Plunkett , 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 , B. Tapia Oregui , P. Tas , T. Thakore , J. Thomas , E. Tiras , Y. Torun , D. Tran , J. Trokan-Tenorio , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , Z. Vallari , J. D. Villamil , K. J. Vockerodt , M. Wallbank , M. Wetstein , D. Whittington , D. A. Wickremasinghe , T. Wieber , J. Wolcott , M. Wrobel , S. Wu , W. Wu , Y. Xiao , B. Yaeggy , A. Yahaya , A. Yankelevich , K. Yonehara , Y. Yu , S. Zadorozhnyy , J. Zalesak , R. Zwaska

Overview of Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions

An overview of neutrino-nucleus interactions is presented. After a brief discussion of theory and applications of detector response three examples are discussed: i) Recent work on neutrino-deuteron reactions, ii) Probing strangeness content…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. B. Balantekin

Neutrino-Nucleus Cross Section Impacts on Neutrino Oscillation Measurements

The challenges in neutrino-nucleus cross section modeling and its impact on neutrino oscillation experiments are widely recognized. However, a comprehensive and theoretically robust estimation of cross section uncertainties has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-28 Nina M. Coyle , Shirley Weishi Li , Pedro A. N. Machado

Why understanding neutrino interactions is important for oscillation physics

Uncertainties in knowledge of neutrino interactions directly impact the ability to measure the parameters of neutrino oscillation. Experiments which make use of differing technologies and neutrino beams are sensitive to different…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 C. W. Walter

Inelastic Dark Matter at the Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino Program

We study the sensitivity of the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) experiments, MicroBooNE, ICARUS, and SBND, to MeV- to GeV-scale inelastic dark matter interacting through a dark photon mediator. These models provide interesting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-03 Brian Batell , Joshua Berger , Luc Darmé , Claudia Frugiuele

Characterizing Beam Profiles in Accelerator Neutrino Experiments through Off-Axis Neutrino Interactions

We introduce a novel approach that utilizes neutrino events from the off-axis near detector to investigate the beam profile in long-baseline neutrino experiments. Understanding the dynamics of the neutrino beam is crucial for improving the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-13 Svetlana Karpova , Federico Sánchez , Dana Douqa