Publications (80)
Direct Measurement of Nuclear Dependence of Charged Current Quasielastic-like Neutrino Interactions using MINERvA
M. Betancourt, A. Ghosh, T. Walton +53
Charged-current interactions on carbon, iron, and lead with a final state hadronic system of one or more protons with zero mesons are used to investigate the influence of t…
Improved constraint on the MINERvA medium energy neutrino flux using data
L. Zazueta, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +58
Processes with precisely known cross sections, like neutrino electron elastic scattering () and inverse muon decay ($ν_μe^{-} \!\rightarrow μ^{-}…
Use of Neutrino Scattering Events with Low Hadronic Recoil to Inform Neutrino Flux and Detector Energy Scale
A. Bashyal, D. Rimal, B. Messerly +60
Charged-current neutrino interactions with low hadronic recoil ("low-nu") have a cross-section that is approximately constant versus neutrino energy. These interactions have been u…
Measurements of , and production in 120 GeV/ p + C interactions
SHINE Collaboration, H. Adhikary, K. K. Allison +155
This paper presents multiplicity measurements of , , and produced in 120 GeV/ proton-carbon interactions. The measurements were made using data co…
An Error Analysis Toolkit for Binned Counting Experiments
B. Messerly, R. Fine, A. Olivier +42
We introduce the MINERvA Analysis Toolkit (MAT), a utility for centralizing the handling of systematic uncertainties in HEP analyses. The fundamental utilities of the toolkit are t…
Measurements of the Inclusive Neutrino and Antineutrino Charged Current Cross Sections in MINERvA Using the Low- Flux Method
MINERvA Collaboration, J. DeVan, L. Ren +65
The total cross sections are important ingredients for the current and future neutrino oscillation experiments. We present measurements of the total charged-current neutrino and an…
Measurements of production in Be+Be collisions at beam momenta from 19 to 150GeV/ in the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS
SHINE Collaboration, A. Acharya, H. Adhikary +139
The NA61/SHINE collaboration studies at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) the onset of deconfinement in hadronic matter by the measurement of particle production in collision…
Measurement of the antineutrino to neutrino charged-current interaction cross section ratio in MINERvA
Minerva Collaboration, L. Ren, L. Aliaga +66
We present measurements of the neutrino and antineutrino total charged-current cross sections on carbon and their ratio using the MINERvA scintillator-tracker. The measurements spa…
Measurements of and production in proton-proton interactions at = 17.3 GeV in the NA61/SHINE experiment
SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov +135
The production of and hyperons in inelastic p+p interactions is studied in a fixed target experiment at a beam momentum of 158 GeV/textit{c}.…
Measurement of electron neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon at = 3.6 GeV
MINERvA Collaboration, J. Wolcott, O. Altinok +67
The first direct measurement of electron-neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region of incident neutrino energy has been carried ou…
Nuclear binding energy and transverse momentum imbalance in neutrino-nucleus reactions
T. Cai, X. -G. Lu, L. A. Harewood +64
We have measured new observables based on the final state kinematic imbalances in the mesonless production of in the tracker.…
Constraint of the MINERvA Medium Energy Neutrino Flux using Neutrino-Electron Elastic Scattering
E. Valencia, D. Jena, Nuruzzaman +68
Elastic neutrino scattering on electrons is a precisely-known purely leptonic process that provides a standard candle for measuring neutrino flux in conventional neutrino beams. Us…
Measurement of the muon anti-neutrino double-differential cross section for quasi-elastic scattering on hydrocarbon at~ GeV
C. E. Patrick, L. Aliaga, A. Bashyal +64
We present double-differential measurements of anti-neutrino quasi-elastic scattering in the MINERvA detector. This study improves on a previous single differential measurement by…
Measurements of , K, p and spectra in proton-proton interactions at 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS
SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali +141
Measurements of inclusive spectra and mean multiplicities of , K, p and produced in inelastic p+p interactions at incident projectile momenta of 20…
Measurement of charged-current single production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA
T. Le, F. Akbar, L. Aliaga +63
The antineutrino scattering channel (nucleon(s)) is analyzed in the incident energy range 1.5 to 10 GeV using the MINERvA det…
Search for an exotic S=-2, Q=-2 baryon resonance in proton-proton interactions at = 17.3 GeV
SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov +133
Pentaquark states have been extensively investigated theoretically in the context of the constituent quark model. In this paper results of an experimental search for pentaquarks in…
First evidence of coherent meson production in neutrino-nucleus scattering
Z. Wang, C. M. Marshall, L. Aliaga +68
Neutrino-induced charged-current coherent kaon production, , is a rare, inelastic electroweak process that brings a on shell and leaves the tar…
Measurement of production in charged-current interactions
C. M. Marshall, L. Aliaga, O. Altinok +79
Production of K^{+} mesons in charged-current ν_μ interactions on plastic scintillator (CH) is measured using MINERvA exposed to the low-energy NuMI beam at Fermilab. Timing info…
Measurements of hadron production in + C and + Be interactions at 60 GeV/
SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov +143
Precise knowledge of hadron production rates in the generation of neutrino beams is necessary for accelerator-based neutrino experiments to achieve their physics goals. NA61/SHINE,…
Mu2e-II: Muon to electron conversion with PIP-II
K. Byrum, S. Corrodi, Y. Oksuzian +104
An observation of Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV) would be unambiguous evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model. The Mu2e and COMET experiments, under construction, ar…
Exploring Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the GeV Regime using MINERvA
X. -G. Lu, Z. Ahmad Dar, F. Akbar +64
With the advance of particle accelerator and detector technologies, the neutrino physics landscape is rapidly expanding. As neutrino oscillation experiments enter the intensity and…
Production of hyperons in inelastic p+p interactions at 158 GeV/
A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali, E. Andronov +137
Inclusive production of -hyperons was measured with the large acceptance NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS in inelastic p+p interactions at beam momentum of 158~\GeVc. Sp…
High-Statistics Measurement of Antineutrino Quasielastic-like scattering at 6~GeV on a Hydrocarbon Target
A. Bashyal, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +66
We present measurements of the cross section for anti-neutrino charged-current quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon using the medium energy (ME) NuMI wide-band neutrino beam…
Measurement of Partonic Nuclear Effects in Deep-Inelastic Neutrino Scattering using MINERvA
MINERvA Collaboration, J. Mousseau, M. Wospakrik +72
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,…
Data Preservation at MINERvA
R. Fine, B. Messerly, K. S. McFarland +22
Between 2013 and 2019 MINERvA collected an accelerator neutrino interaction dataset that is uniquely relevant to the energy range of DUNE. These are the only currently available da…
Measurement of Coherent Production of in Neutrino and Anti-Neutrino Beams on Carbon from of to GeV
A. Higuera, A. Mislivec, L. Aliaga +69
Neutrino-induced coherent charged pion production on nuclei, is a rare, inelastic interaction in which a small squared four-momentum …
Tuning the GENIE Pion Production Model with MINERvA Data
P. Stowell, L. Pickering, C. Wilkinson +68
Faced with unresolved tensions between neutrino interaction measurements at few-GeV neutrino energies, current experiments are forced to accept large systematic uncertainties to co…
Antineutrino Charged-Current reactions on Hydrocarbon with Low Momentum Transfer
R. Gran, M. Betancourt, M. Elkins +68
We report on multinucleon effects in low momentum transfer ( GeV/c) anti-neutrino interactions on plastic (CH) scintillator. These data are from the 2010-2011 antineutrino p…
MINERvA neutrino detector response measured with test beam data
MINERvA Collaboration, L. Aliaga, O. Altinok +85
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 Fe…
High Statistics Measurements of Charged-Current Single Production with Zero Pion Kinetic Energy Threshold in MINERvA
E. Granados, B. Messerly, S. Akhter +32
This Letter presents measurements of single-differential cross sections of -induced charged-current 1 production on scintillator using the MINERvA detector at Fermi…
Two-particle correlations in azimuthal angle and pseudorapidity in central Be+Be collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron
SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov +135
A measurement of charged hadron pair correlations in two-dimensional space is presented. The analysis is based on total 30 million central Be+Be collisions observed in t…
Proton-proton interactions and onset of deconfinement
SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov +133
The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS is performing a uniqe study of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter by varying collision energy and nuclear mass number of col…
Comparisons and challenges of modern neutrino scattering experiments (TENSIONS2016 report)
M. Betancourt, S. Bolognesi, J. Calcutt +25
Over the last decade, there has been enormous effort to measure neutrino interaction cross sections important to oscillation experiments. However, a number of results from modern e…
Neutrino Flux Predictions for the NuMI Beam
MINERvA Collaboration, L. Aliaga, M. Kordosky +58
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…
Measurement of Hadron Production in -C Interactions at 158 and 350 GeV/c with NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS
SHINE Collaboration, H. Adhikary, K. K. Allison +155
We present a measurement of the momentum spectra of , K, p, , and K produced in interactions of negatively charged pions with carbon nucl…
Measurement of charged-current single production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA
O. Altinok, T. Le, L. Aliaga +57
The semi-exclusive channel is analyzed using MINERvA exposed to the low-energy NuMI beam with spectral peak a…
Measurement of Total and Differential Cross Sections of Neutrino and Antineutrino Coherent Production on Carbon
MINERvA Collaboration, A. Mislivec, A. Higuera +61
Neutrino induced coherent charged pion production on nuclei, , is a rare inelastic interaction in which the four-momentum squared transfered to th…
Constraining the NuMI neutrino flux using inverse muon decay reactions in MINERvA
D. Ruterbories, Z. Ahmad Dar, F. Akbar +61
Inverse muon decay, , is a reaction whose cross-section can be predicted with very small uncertainties. It has a neutrino energy threshold of GeV…
Measurement of the A dependence of the muon neutrino charged-current quasielastic-like cross section as a function of muon and proton kinematics at E6 GeV
J. Kleykamp, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +54
The first simultaneous measurements of the quasielastic-like cross section on C, CH, H0, Fe, and Pb targets as a function of kinematic imbalance variables in the plane…
Measurements of , , and spectra in Be+Be collisions at beam momenta from 19 to 150 GeV/ with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS
SHINE Collaboration, A. Acharya, H. Adhikary +140
The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) studies the onset of deconfinement in hadron matter by a scan of particle production in collisions of nuclei wi…
Neutron measurements from anti-neutrino hydrocarbon reactions
M. Elkins, T. Cai, J. Chaves +72
Charged-current anti-neutrino interactions on hydrocarbon scintillator in the MINERvA detector are used to study activity from their final-state neutrons. To ensure that most of th…
Cross sections for neutrino and antineutrino induced pion production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA
C. L. McGivern, T. Le, B. Eberly +67
Separate samples of charged-current pion production events representing two semi-inclusive channels -CC() and -CC() have been obtained using neutr…
Measurement of Meson Resonance Production in C Interactions at SPS energies
A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali, E. V. Andronov +142
We present measurements of , and K spectra in C production interactions at 158 GeV/c and spectra at 350 GeV/c using the NA61/SHINE spectrometer…
Neutrino-induced coherent production in C, CH, Fe and Pb at GeV
M. A. RamÃrez, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +63
MINERvA has measured the -induced coherent cross section simultaneously in hydrocarbon (CH), graphite (C), iron (Fe) and lead (Pb) targets using neutrinos from 2 to…
Simultaneous measurement of proton and lepton kinematics in quasielastic-like -hydrocarbon interactions from 2 to 20 GeV
The MINERvA Collaboration, D. Ruterbories, S. Akhter +71
Neutrino charged-current quasielastic-like scattering, a reaction category extensively used in neutrino oscillation measurements, probes nuclear effects that govern neutrino-nucleu…
Neutral pion reconstruction using machine learning in the MINERvA experiment at GeV
A. Ghosh, B. Yaeggy, R. Galindo +53
This paper presents a novel neutral-pion reconstruction that takes advantage of the machine learning technique of semantic segmentation using MINERvA data collected between 2013-20…
High-statistics measurement of neutrino quasielastic-like scattering at <E_nu>=~6 GeV on a hydrocarbon target
M. F. Carneiro, D. Ruterbories, Z. Ahmad Dar +65
We measure neutrino charged current quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon at high statistics using the wide-band NuMI beam with neutrino energy peaked at 6 GeV. The double-di…
Measurement of meson production in p+p interactions at 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS
SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov +142
Results on meson production in inelastic p+p collisions at CERN SPS energies are presented. They are derived from data collected by the NA61/SHINE fixed target experiment, by…
Measurement of inclusive charged-current cross sections as a function of muon kinematics at on hydrocarbon
D. Ruterbories, A. Filkins, Z. Ahmad Dar +60
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 transver…
Measurement of the production cross section of 31 GeV/ protons on carbon via beam attenuation in a 90-cm-long target
SHINE Collaboration, A. Acharya, H. Adhikary +140
The production cross section of 30.92 GeV/ protons on carbon is measured by the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS by means of beam attenuation in a copy (replica) of the 9…
Comparisons and challenges of modern neutrino-scattering experiments (TENSIONS 2019 report)
M. Buizza Avanzini, M. Betancourt, D. Cherdack +14
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 interac…
Two-particle correlations in azimuthal angle and pseudorapidity in inelastic p+p interactions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron
SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali +152
Results on two-particle correlations in inelastic p+p interactions at 20, 31, 40, 80, and 158~GeV/c are presented. The measurements were performed using the large accept…
Measurement of final-state correlations in neutrino muon-proton mesonless production on hydrocarbon at GeV
X. -G. Lu, M. Betancourt, T. Walton +69
Final-state kinematic imbalances are measured in mesonless production of in the MINERvA tracker. Initial- and final-state nuclear effects are probed usi…
Probing nuclear effects with neutrino-induced charged-current neutral pion production
D. Coplowe, O. Altinok, Z. Ahmad Dar +65
We study neutrino-induced charged-current (CC) production on carbon nuclei using events with fully imaged final-state proton- systems. Novel use of final-state correla…
Spectra and mean multiplicities of in Ar+Sc collisions at 13, 19, 30, 40, 75 and 150 GeV/ beam momenta measured by the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS
SHINE collaboration, A. Acharya, H. Adhikary +139
The physics goal of the strong interaction program of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is to study the phase diagram of hadronic matter by a sca…
Measurement of Quasielastic-Like Neutrino Scattering at ~ GeV on a Hydrocarbon Target
D. Ruterbories, K. Hurtado, J. Osta +70
MINERvA presents a new analysis of neutrino induced quasielastic-like interactions in a hydrocarbon tracking target. We report a double-differential cross section using the muon tr…
Measurement of charged-current and cross sections on hydrocarbon in a shallow inelastic scattering region
A. Lozano, G. Silva, G. Caceres +46
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 ine…
meson production in inelastic p+p interactions at 158 GeV/ beam momentum measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS
SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov +137
The measurement of resonance production via its decay mode in inelastic p+p collisions at beam momentum 158 GeV/ ( GeV) is prese…
Measurement of neutral-current production by neutrinos using MINERvA
C. M. Marshall, L. Aliaga, O. Altinok +64
Neutral-current production of by atmospheric neutrinos is a background in searches for the proton decay . Reactions such as $νp \rightarrow νK…
Identification of nuclear effects in neutrino-carbon interactions at low three-momentum transfer
P. A. Rodrigues, J. Demgen, E. Miltenberger +73
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 observe…
Measurement of muon plus proton final states in Interactions on Hydrocarbon at = 4.2 GeV
T. Walton, M. Betancourt, L. Aliaga +73
A study of charged-current muon neutrino scattering on hydrocarbon in which the final state includes a muon and a proton and no pions is presented. Although this signature has the…
Measurement of Neutrino Flux from Neutrino-Electron Elastic Scattering
MINERvA Collaboration, J. Park, L. Aliaga +66
Muon-neutrino elastic scattering on electrons is an observable neutrino process whose cross section is precisely known. Consequently a measurement of this process in an accelerator…
meson production in inelastic interactions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS
A. Acharya, H. Adhikary, K. K. Allison +139
The production of mesons in inelastic collisions at beam momentum 158 GeV/c ( GeV) was measured with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at t…
Simultaneous measurement of muon neutrino charged-current single production in CH, C, HO, Fe, and Pb targets in MINERvA
A. Bercellie, K. A. Kroma-Wiley, S. Akhter +69
Neutrino-induced charged-current single production in the resonance region is of considerable interest to accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments. In t…
Measurements of multiplicity fluctuations of identified hadrons in inelastic proton-proton interactions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron
SHINE Collaboration, A. Acharya, H. Adhikary +139
Measurements of multiplicity fluctuations of identified hadrons produced in inelastic p+p interactions at 31, 40, 80, and 158~\GeVc beam momentum are presented. Three different mea…
Simultaneous measurement of muon neutrino quasielastic-like cross sections on CH, C, water, Fe, and Pb as a function of muon kinematics at MINERvA
J. Kleykamp, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +65
This paper presents the first simultaneous measurement of the quasielastic-like neutrino-nucleus cross sections on C, water, Fe, Pb and scintillator (hydrocarbon or CH) as a functi…
Vertex finding in neutrino-nucleus interaction: A Model Architecture Comparison
F. Akbar, A. Ghosh, S. Young +48
We compare different neural network architectures for Machine Learning (ML) algorithms designed to identify the neutrino interaction vertex position in the MINERvA detector. The ar…
Evidence for neutral-current diffractive neutral pion production from hydrogen in neutrino interactions on hydrocarbon
MINERvA Collaboration, J. Wolcott, L. Aliaga +68
The MINERvA experiment observes an excess of events containing electromagnetic showers relative to the expectation from Monte Carlo simulations in neutral-current neutrino interact…
Measurements of production and inelastic cross sections for $\mbox{p}+\mbox{C}$, $\mbox{p}+\mbox{Be}$, and $\mbox{p}+\mbox{Al}$ at 60 GeV/ and $\mbox{p}+\mbox{C}$ and $\mbox{p}+\mbox{Be}$ at 120 GeV/
SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov +143
This paper presents measurements of production cross sections and inelastic cross sections for the following reactions: 60 GeV/ protons with C, Be, Al targets and 120 GeV/ pr…
Measurements of differential yields from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS
SHINE Collaboration, N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz +156
Measurements of particle emission from a replica of the T2K 90 cm-long carbon target were performed in the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN SPS, using data collected during a high-sta…
Measurements of and production in proton-proton interactions at = 17.3 GeV in the NA61/SHINE experiment
A. Acharya, H. Adhikary, K. K. Allison +140
Double-differential yields of and resonances produced in \pp interactions were measured at a laboratory beam momentum o…
Measurements of , and proton yields from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS
SHINE Collaboration, N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz +158
Measurements of the , , and proton double differential yields emitted from the surface of the 90-cm-long carbon target (T2K replica) were performed for the incom…
Double-Differential Inclusive Charged-Current Cross Sections on Hydrocarbon in MINERvA at 3.5 GeV
A. Filkins, D. Ruterbories, Y. Liu +64
MINERvA reports inclusive charged-current cross sections for muon neutrinos on hydrocarbon in the NuMI beamline. We measured the double-differential cross section in terms of the l…
Measurement of the Multi-Neutron Charged Current Differential Cross Section at Low Available Energy on Hydrocarbon
A. Olivier, T. Cai, S. Akhter +58
Neutron production in antineutrino interactions can lead to bias in energy reconstruction in neutrino oscillation experiments, but these interactions have rarely been studied. MINE…
Measurements of total production cross sections for +C, +Al, +C, and +Al at 60 GeV/c and +C and +Al at 31 GeV/c
SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. Andronov +139
This paper presents several measurements of total production cross sections and total inelastic cross sections for the following reactions: +C, +Al, +C, $K^{…
Reducing model bias in a deep learning classifier using domain adversarial neural networks in the MINERvA experiment
G. N. Perdue, A. Ghosh, M. Wospakrik +53
We present a simulation-based study using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) to identify neutrino interaction vertices in the MINERvA passive targets region, and illustrate…
Measurement of Electron Neutrino and Antineutrino Cross Sections at Low Momentum Transfer
S. Henry, H. Su, S. Akhter +53
Accelerator based neutrino oscillation experiments seek to measure the relative number of electron and muon neutrinos and antineutrinos at different values. However high stat…
meson production in inelastic interactions at 40 and 80 GeV/ beam momenta measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS
SHINE Collaboration, A. Acharya, H. Adhikary +145
Measurements of resonance production via its decay mode in inelastic collisions at beam momenta 40 and 80 GeV/ ( and 12.3 G…
Charged Pion Production in Interactions on Hydrocarbon at = 4.0 GeV
B. Eberly, L. Aliaga, O. Altinok +78
Charged pion production via charged current interactions on plastic (CH) is studied using the MINERvA detector exposed to the NuMI wideband neutrino beam at Fermilab. Event…
Measurements of , , , and proton production in proton-carbon interactions at 31 GeV/ with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS
N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali +149
Measurements of hadron production in p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c are performed using the NA61/ SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. The analysis is based on the full set of data co…