Publications (140)
Snowmass Neutrino Frontier: DUNE Physics Summary
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1240
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with a primary physics goal of observing neutrino and antineutrin…
Overhaul and Installation of the ICARUS-T600 Liquid Argon TPC Electronics for the FNAL Short Baseline Neutrino Program
L. Bagby, B. Baibussinov, B. Behera +61
The ICARUS T600 liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC) underwent a major overhaul at CERN in 2016-2017 to prepare for the operation at FNAL in the Short Baseline Neutrino…
The T2K Experiment
T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, N. Abgrall +520
The T2K experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. Its main goal is to measure the last unknown lepton sector mixing angle θ_{13} by observing ν_e appearance…
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…
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 the T2K neutrino beam properties using the INGRID on-axis near detector
K. Abe, N. Abgrall, Y. Ajima +428
Precise measurement of neutrino beam direction and intensity was achieved based on a new concept with modularized neutrino detectors. INGRID (Interactive Neutrino GRID) is an on-ax…
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…
The DUNE Phase II Detectors
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1340
The international collaboration designing and constructing the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) has developed a two-phase s…
The DUNE Far Detector Interim Design Report, Volume 2: Single-Phase Module
DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +1092
The DUNE IDR describes the proposed physics program and technical designs of the DUNE far detector modules in preparation for the full TDR to be published in 2019. It is intended a…
Measurement of sin2thetaW from Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering at NuTeV
K. S. McFarland, T. Adams, A. Alton +37
We report the measurement of sin2thetaW in neutrino-nucleon deep inelastic scattering from the NuTeV experiment. Using separate neutrino and anti-neutrino beams, NuTeV is able to d…
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…
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…
Design, Calibration, and Performance of the MINERvA Detector
L. Aliaga, L. Bagby, B. Baldin +102
The MINERvA experiment is designed to perform precision studies of neutrino-nucleus scattering using and neutrinos incident at 1-20 GeV in the NuMI beam at Fe…
Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Near Detector Conceptual Design Report
A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +1059
This report describes the conceptual design of the DUNE near detector
Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume II: DUNE Physics
B. Abi, R. Acciarri, Mario A. Acero +958
The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe, the dynamics of the supernovae that produced the heavy elements necessary for life, and whether protons eventuall…
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…
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…
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,…
The DUNE Far Detector Vertical Drift Technology, Technical Design Report
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1324
DUNE is an international experiment dedicated to addressing some of the questions at the forefront of particle physics and astrophysics, including the mystifying preponderance of m…
Boosted decision tree reweighting of simulated neutrino interactions for GeV neutrino cross section measurements
Z. Lin, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +38
This paper illustrates a generic method for multi-dimensional reweighting of GeV neutrino interaction Monte Carlo samples. The reweighting is based on a Boosted Decision Tre…
Neutrino Interaction Vertex Reconstruction in DUNE with Pandora Deep Learning
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1331
The Pandora Software Development Kit and algorithm libraries perform reconstruction of neutrino interactions in liquid argon time projection chamber detectors. Pandora is the prima…
European Contributions to Fermilab Accelerator Upgrades and Facilities for the DUNE Experiment
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1340
The Proton Improvement Plan (PIP-II) to the FNAL accelerator chain and the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) will provide the world's most intense neutrino beam to the Deep Un…
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…
The Design and Performance of the MINERvA Detector
H. Budd
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…
The Nucleon Axial Form Factor from Elementary Target Data
A. S. Meyer, T. Cai, M. Moore +40
Precise neutrino-nucleon amplitudes are essential ingredients for predicting neutrino event rates in current and upcoming long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. A common n…
Performance of a modular ton-scale pixel-readout liquid argon time projection chamber
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1360
The Module-0 Demonstrator is a single-phase 600 kg liquid argon time projection chamber operated as a prototype for the DUNE liquid argon near detector. Based on the ArgonCube desi…
Studies of the Response of the Prototype CMS Hadron Calorimeter, Including Magnetic Field Effects, to Pion, Electron, and Muon Beams
V. V. Abramov, B. S. Acharya, N. Akchurin +32
We report on the response of a prototype CMS hadron calorimeter module to charged particle beams of pions, muons, and electrons with momenta up to 375 GeV/c. The data were taken at…
A Precise Determination of Electroweak Parameters in Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering
NuTeV Collaboration, G. P. Zeller, K. S. McFarland +43
The NuTeV collaboration has extracted sin^2theta_W from the ratios of neutral current to charged current neutrino and anti-neutrino cross-sections. Our value, sin^2theta_W(on-shell…
A Gaseous Argon-Based Near Detector to Enhance the Physics Capabilities of DUNE
A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +1239
This document presents the concept and physics case for a magnetized gaseous argon-based detector system (ND-GAr) for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Near Detector.…
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…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 1: The LBNF and DUNE Projects
R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. Adamowski +795
This document presents the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) put forward by an international neutrino community to pursue the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at the Long-Baseline…
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…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 2: The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF
DUNE Collaboration, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero +796
The Physics Program for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Fermilab Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) is described.
New Measurements of Nucleon Structure Functions from CCFR/NuTeV
A. Bodek, U. K. Yang, T. Adams +29
We report on the extraction of the structure functions F_2 and Delta xF_3 = xF_3nu-xF_3nub from CCFR neutrino-Fe and antineutrino-Fe differential cross sections. The extraction is…
New Measurements of Nucleon Structure Functions from the CCFR/NuTeV Collaboration
A. Bodek, U. K. Yang, T. Adams +29
We report on the extraction of the structure functions F_2 and Delta xF_3 = xF_3nu-xF_3nubar from CCFR neutrino-Fe and antineutrino-Fe differential cross sections. The extraction i…
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…
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…
The DUNE Far Detector Interim Design Report Volume 1: Physics, Technology and Strategies
DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +1092
The DUNE IDR describes the proposed physics program and technical designs of the DUNE Far Detector modules in preparation for the full TDR to be published in 2019. It is intended a…
DUNE Phase II: Scientific Opportunities, Detector Concepts, Technological Solutions
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1366
The international collaboration designing and constructing the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) has developed a two-phase s…
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…
Extraction of the Axial Nucleon Form Factor from Neutrino Experiments on Deuterium
A. Bodek, S. Avvakumov, R. Bradford +1
We present new parameterizations of vector and axial nucleon form factors. We maintain an excellent descriptions of the form factors at low momentum transfers (), where the sp…
Experiment Simulation Configurations Approximating DUNE TDR
DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +966
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment consisting of a high-power, broadband neutrino beam, a highly cap…
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…
Supernova Pointing Capabilities of DUNE
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1360
The determination of the direction of a stellar core collapse via its neutrino emission is crucial for the identification of the progenitor for a multimessenger follow-up. A highly…
Low exposure long-baseline neutrino oscillation sensitivity of the DUNE experiment
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1151
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will produce world-leading neutrino oscillation measurements over the lifetime of the experiment. In this work, we explore DUNE's se…
A Search for Muon-neutrino to Electron-neutrino and Muon-antineutrino to Electron-antineutrino Oscillations at NuTeV
S. Avvakumov, T. Adams, A. Alton +43
Limits on and oscillations are extracted using the NuTeV detector with sign-selected and $\nub_μ$ beams. In $\nub_μ$ mode, for the…
The DUNE Far Detector Interim Design Report, Volume 3: Dual-Phase Module
DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +1092
The DUNE IDR describes the proposed physics program and technical designs of the DUNE far detector modules in preparation for the full TDR to be published in 2019. It is intended a…
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…
The T2K ND280 Off-Axis Pi-Zero Detector
S. Assylbekov, B. E. Berger, H. Berns +53
The Pi-Zero detector (PÃD) is one of the subdetectors that makes up the off-axis near detector for the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) long baseline neutrino experiment. The primary goal f…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report, Volume 4 The DUNE Detectors at LBNF
R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. Adamowski +795
A description of the proposed detector(s) for DUNE at LBNF
Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E_ν ~ 3.5 GeV
The MINERvA collaboration, G. A. Fiorentini, D. W. Schmitz +115
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 F…
Measurement of inclusive charged-current $ν_{\numu}$ scattering on hydrocarbon at {<Enu>} 6 GeV with low three-momentum transfer
M. V. Ascencio, D. A. Andrade, I. Mahbub +63
The \minerva experiment reports double-differential cross-section measurements for -carbon interactions with three-momentum transfer GeV obtained with medi…
A new parameterization of the nucleon elastic form factors
R. Bradford, A. Bodek, H. Budd +1
The nucleon elastic form factors are generally interpreted as a mapping of the charge and magnetic current distributions of the proton and neutron. New high Q^2 measurements have o…
Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E_ν ~ 3.5 GeV
The MINERvA collaboration, L. Fields, J. Chvojka +115
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 n…
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 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…
Off the Mass Shell: Electroweak Physics at NuTeV
K. S. McFarland, G. P. Zeller, T. Adams +43
The NuTeV collaboration has performed precision measurements of the ratio of neutral current to charged current cross-sections in high rate, high energy neutrino and anti-neutrino…
Precise Measurement of Neutrino and Anti-neutrino Differential Cross Sections
M. Tzanov, D. Naples, S. Boyd +45
The NuTeV experiment at Fermilab has obtained a unique high statistics sample of neutrino and anti-neutrino interactions using its high-energy sign-selected beam. We present a meas…
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…
Measurement of sin^2 theta_W in nu N Scattering from NuTeV
NuTeV Collaboration, R. A. Johnson, T. Adams +38
We report the measurement of sin^2 theta_W in nu N deep inelastic scattering from the NuTeV experiment. By using separate neutrino and anti-neutrino beams, NuTeV is able to determi…
Doping Liquid Argon with Xenon in ProtoDUNE Single-Phase: Effects on Scintillation Light
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1317
Doping of liquid argon TPCs (LArTPCs) with a small concentration of xenon is a technique for light-shifting and facilitates the detection of the liquid argon scintillation light. I…
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…
Nuclear Structure Functions in the Large x Large Q^2 Kinematic Region in Neutrino Deep Inelastic Scattering
CCFR collaboration, M. Vakili, C. G. Arroyo +39
Data from the CCFR E770 Neutrino Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) experiment at Fermilab contain events with large Bjorken x (x>0.7) and high momentum transfer (Q^2>50 (GeV/c)^2). A…
Determination of the Jet Energy Scale at the Collider Detector at Fermilab
A. Bhatti, F. Canelli, B. Heinemann +39
A precise determination of the energy scale of jets at the Collider Detector at Fermilab at the Tevatron collider is described. Jets are used in many analyses to estimat…
Observation of an Anomalous Number of Dimuon Events in a High Energy Neutrino Beam
NuTeV Collaboration, T. Adams, A. Alton +43
A search for long-lived neutral particles (N^0's) with masses above 2.2 GeV/c^2 that decay into at least one muon has been performed using an instrumented decay channel at the NuTe…
Identification and reconstruction of low-energy electrons in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1253
Measurements of electrons from interactions are crucial for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) neutrino oscillation program, as well as searches for physics bey…
Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume I: Introduction to DUNE
B. Abi, R. Acciarri, Mario A. Acero +958
The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe, the dynamics of the supernovae that produced the heavy elements necessary for life, and whether protons eventuall…
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…
The Single-Phase ProtoDUNE Technical Design Report
B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero +824
ProtoDUNE-SP is the single-phase DUNE Far Detector prototype that is under construction and will be operated at the CERN Neutrino Platform (NP) starting in 2018. ProtoDUNE-SP, a cr…
The track-length extension fitting algorithm for energy measurement of interacting particles in liquid argon TPCs and its performance with ProtoDUNE-SP data
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1366
This paper introduces a novel track-length extension fitting algorithm for measuring the kinetic energies of inelastically interacting particles in liquid argon time projection cha…
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…
Searching for solar KDAR with DUNE
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1174
The observation of 236 MeV muon neutrinos from kaon-decay-at-rest (KDAR) originating in the core of the Sun would provide a unique signature of dark matter annihilation. Since exce…
A Departure from Prediction: Electroweak Physics at Nutev
K. S. McFarland, G. P. Zeller, T. Adams +42
The NuTeV experiment has performed precision measurements of the ratio of neutral-current to charged-current cross-sections in high rate, high energy neutrino and anti-neutrino bea…
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…
Supernova Neutrino Burst Detection with the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
DUNE collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +967
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a 40-kton underground liquid argon time projection chamber experiment, will be sensitive to the electron-neutrino flavor component…
Design, construction and operation of the ProtoDUNE-SP Liquid Argon TPC
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1175
The ProtoDUNE-SP detector is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) that was constructed and operated in the CERN North Area at the end of the H4 beamline. Th…
Impact of cross-section uncertainties on supernova neutrino spectral parameter fitting in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1313
A primary goal of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is to measure the MeV neutrinos produced by a Galactic core-collapse supernova if one s…
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…
Evidence for Diffractive Charm Production in nu_mu Fe and nubar_mu Fe Scattering at the Tevatron
NuTeV Collaboration, T. Adams, A. Alton +41
We present evidence for the diffractive processes nu_mu Fe -> mu^- D_s^+ (D_s^*+) Fe and nubar_mu Fe -> mu^+ D_s^- (D_s^*-) Fe using the Fermilab SSQT neutrino beam and the Lab E n…
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…
First Muon-Neutrino Disappearance Study with an Off-Axis Beam
T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, N. Abgrall +443
We report a measurement of muon-neutrino disappearance in the T2K experiment. The 295-km muon-neutrino beam from Tokai to Kamioka is the first implementation of the off-axis techni…
Modeling Atmospheric Neutrino Interactions: Duality Constrained Parameterization of Vector and Axial Nucleon Form Factors
A. Bodek, S. Avvakumov, R. Bradford +1
We present new parameterizations of vector and axial nucleon form factors. We maintain an excellent descriptions of the form factors at low momentum transfers, where the spatial st…
Long-baseline neutrino oscillation physics potential of the DUNE experiment
DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +966
The sensitivity of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to neutrino oscillation is determined, based on a full simulation, reconstruction, and event selection of the far…
The DUNE Science Program
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1340
The international collaboration designing and constructing the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) has developed a two-phase s…
Measurements of F2, xF3nu-xF3nub from CCFR neutrino-Fe and antineutrino-Fe data in a model independent way
A. Bodek, U. K. Yang, T. Adams +15
We report on the extraction of the structure functions F2 and Delta xF3 = xF3nu-xF3nub from CCFR neutrino-Fe and antineutrino-Fe differential cross sections. The extraction is perf…
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 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 …
Performance of the NuTeV Fe-Scintillator Sampling Calorimeter and Implications for Thin Calorimeters
S. Avvakumov, T. Adams, A. Alton +10
NuTeV is a neutrino-nucleon deep inelastic scattering experiment at Fermilab. The NuTeV detector is a traditional heavy target neutrino detector which consists of an iron/liquid sc…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Highly-parallelized simulation of a pixelated LArTPC on a GPU
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1300
The rapid development of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) is allowing the implementation of highly-parallelized Monte Carlo simulation chains for part…
Charm Production at NuTeV
NuTeV Collaboration, T. Adams, A. Alton +40
Neutrino deep-inelastic scattering provides a means to study both the strange and charm content of the nucleon. The NuTeV experiment (Fermilab E-8Neutrino deep-inelastic scattering…
A Study of an Acrylic Cerenkov Radiation Detector
B. Porter, P. Auchincloss, P. de Barbaro +2
An experiment investigating the angle of Cerenkov light emitted by 3-MeV electrons traversing an acrylic detector has been developed for use in the advanced physics laboratory cour…
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…