Publications (34)
Design of the DUNE horizontal drift far detector charge readout electronics and performance in ProtoDUNE-HD
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1364
DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment currently under construction, whose far detectors will be the largest liquid argon ti…
Reconstruction of atmospheric neutrinos in DUNE's horizontal-drift far-detector module
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1343
This paper reports on the capabilities in reconstructing and identifying atmospheric neutrino interactions in one of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment's (DUNE) far detector…
Expanding neutrino oscillation parameter measurements in NOvA using a Bayesian approach
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, B. Acharya +196
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that measures oscillations in charged-current (disappearance) and (appe…
Measurement of the Nucleus Charged-Current Double-Differential Cross Section at 2.4 GeV using NOvA
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +212
The inclusive electron neutrino charged-current cross section is measured in the NOvA near detector using protons-on-target (POT) in the NuMI beam. The sample o…
The Gravitational Universe
The eLISA Consortium, :, P. Amaro Seoane +158
The last century has seen enormous progress in our understanding of the Universe. We know the life cycles of stars, the structure of galaxies, the remnants of the big bang, and hav…
Operation of a Modular 3D-Pixelated Liquid Argon Time-Projection Chamber in a Neutrino Beam
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1318
The 2x2 Demonstrator, a prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) liquid argon (LAr) Near Detector, was exposed to the Neutrinos from the Main Injector (NuMI) n…
First Light from Beam Neutrinos on an LAPPD in ANNIE
B. W. Adams, S. Abubakar, D. Ajana +71
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is both a physics experiment and a technology testbed for next-generation light-based neutrino detection. In this pa…
Seasonal Variation of Multiple-Muon Cosmic Ray Air Showers Observed in the NOvA Detector on the Surface
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +194
We report the rate of cosmic ray air showers with multiplicities exceeding 15 muon tracks recorded in the NOvA Far Detector between May 2016 and May 2018. The detector is located o…
Spatial and Temporal Evaluations of the Liquid Argon Purity in ProtoDUNE-SP
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1320
Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) rely on highly pure argon to ensure that ionization electrons produced by charged particles reach readout arrays. ProtoDUNE Single-P…
Search for multi-messenger signals in NOvA coincident with LIGO/Virgo detections
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson +177
Using the NOvA neutrino detectors, a broad search has been performed for any signal coincident with 28 gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration between Se…
Joint neutrino oscillation analysis from the T2K and NOvA experiments
NOvA, T2K Collaborations, : +597
The landmark discovery that neutrinos have mass and can change type (or "flavor") as they propagate -- a process called neutrino oscillation -- has opened up a rich array of theore…
Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the NOvA Near Detector
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +188
Using two years of data from the NOvA Near Detector at Fermilab, we report a seasonal variation of cosmic ray induced multiple-muon event rates which has an opposite phase to the s…
Operation and performance of ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon time projection chamber
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1360
ProtoDUNE-DP was the largest ever built Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) operating in Dual-Phase (DP) mode, with a liquid target and charge read-out placed in the gas.…
Search for Slow Magnetic Monopoles with the NOvA Detector on the Surface
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson +196
We report a search for a magnetic monopole component of the cosmic-ray flux in a 95-day exposure of the NOvA experiment's Far Detector, a 14 kt segmented liquid scintillator detect…
Deployment of Water-based Liquid Scintillator in the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment
ANNIE Collaboration, M. Ascencio-Sosa, Z. Bagdasarian +52
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a 26-ton water Cherenkov neutrino detector installed on the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. Its main phy…
Towards mono-energetic virtual beam cross-section measurements: A feasibility study of -Ar interaction analysis with DUNE-PRISM
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1321
Neutrino-nucleus cross-section measurements are critical for future neutrino oscillation analyses. However, our models to describe them require further refinement, and a deeper und…
An Improved Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters by the NOvA Experiment
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +202
We present new , , , and oscillation measurements by…
Measurement of d2sigma/d|q|dEavail in charged current neutrino-nucleus interactions at <Ev> = 1.86 GeV using the NOvA Near Detector
M. A. Acero, B. Acharya, P. Adamson +205
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 transf…
First measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters using neutrinos and antineutrinos by NOvA
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +196
The NOvA experiment has made a -significant observation of appearance in a 2 GeV beam at a distance of 810 km. Using protons on…
Measurement of the double-differential cross section of muon-neutrino charged-current interactions with low hadronic energy in the NOvA Near Detector
M. A. Acero, B. Acharya, P. Adamson +208
The NOvA collaboration reports cross-section measurements for charged-current interactions with low hadronic energy (maximum kinetic energy of 250 MeV for protons and 175 M…
Search for active-sterile antineutrino mixing using neutral-current interactions with the NOvA experiment
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +196
This Letter reports results from the first long-baseline search for sterile antineutrinos mixing in an accelerator-based antineutrino-dominated beam. The rate of neutral-current in…
Measurement of Exclusive --argon Interactions Using ProtoDUNE-SP
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1323
We present the measurement of --argon inelastic cross sections using the ProtoDUNE Single-Phase liquid argon time projection chamber in the incident kinetic energy r…
Search for Accelerator-Produced Sub-GeV Dark Matter with the NOvA Near Detector
S. Abubakar, M. Acero, B. Acharya +184
The NuMI facility at Fermilab produces a high-intensity beam of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos, designed to study neutrino oscillations. This beam may also be a source of dark ma…
Supernova neutrino detection in NOvA
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson +199
The NOvA long-baseline neutrino experiment uses a pair of large, segmented, liquid-scintillator calorimeters to study neutrino oscillations, using GeV-scale neutrinos from the Ferm…
A Bayesian approach to the long-baseline neutrino oscillation sensitivity of DUNE
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1278
The sensitivity of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to neutrino oscillation is evaluated using a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach. This analysis use…
Identification of low-energy kaons in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1343
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation neutrino experiment with a rich physics program that includes searches for the hypothetical phenomenon of proto…
Adjusting Neutrino Interaction Models and Evaluating Uncertainties using NOvA Near Detector Data
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson +192
The two-detector design of the NOvA neutrino oscillation experiment, in which two functionally identical detectors are exposed to an intense neutrino beam, aids in canceling leadin…
Measurement of the Double-Differential Muon-neutrino Charged-Current Inclusive Cross Section in the NOvA Near Detector
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +203
We report cross-section measurements of the final-state muon kinematics for \numu charged-current interactions in the NOvA near detector using an accumulated 8.09 pr…
Monte Carlo method for constructing confidence intervals with unconstrained and constrained nuisance parameters in the NOvA experiment
M. A. Acero, B. Acharya, P. Adamson +218
Measuring observables to constrain models using maximum-likelihood estimation is fundamental to many physics experiments. Wilks' theorem provides a simple way to construct confiden…
Search for -Violating Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions with the NOvA Experiment
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, B. Acharya +204
This Letter reports a search for charge-parity () symmetry violating nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter using the NOvA Experiment, and examines their effec…
Precision measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with 10 years of data from the NOvA experiment
NOvA Collaboration, S. Abubakar, M. A. Acero +207
This Letter reports measurements of muon-neutrino disappearance and electron-neutrino appearance and the corresponding antineutrino processes between the two NOvA detectors in the…
Extended search for supernova-like neutrinos in NOvA coincident with LIGO/Virgo detections
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +200
A search is performed for supernova-like neutrino interactions coincident with 76 gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration. For 40 of these events, full r…
Reconstruction of neutrino events in the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment: Part I
S. Abubakar, M. Acsencio-Sosa, D. Ajana +65
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) was designed to reconstruct neutrino events from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) with the parallel goals of…
First Measurement of -Ar and -Ar Total Inelastic Cross Sections in the Sub-GeV Energy Regime with ProtoDUNE-SP Data
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1346
The ProtoDUNE-SP detector, a kiloton-scale prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) far detector, is the largest liquid argon time projection chamber built to…