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Publications (20)

hep-ex2025

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…

physics.ins-det2024

The Data Acquisition System of the LZ Dark Matter Detector: FADR

J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi +213

The Data Acquisition System (DAQ) for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter detector is described. The signals from 745 PMTs, distributed across three subsystems, are sampled with 100-MH…

hep-ex2024

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…

hep-ex2021

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…

astro-ph.SR2025

High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of the Dust-Obscured Metal-Poor Open Cluster Trumpler 5

S. Özdemir, M. Afşar, C. Sneden +8

Trumpler 5 is a moderately old, dust-obscured metal-poor open cluster. In this study, high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopic data of seven giant stars from the Trumpler 5 clus…

hep-ex2025

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…

hep-ex2024

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…

hep-ex2022

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…

physics.ins-det2022

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) radioactivity and cleanliness control programs

D. S. Akerib, C. W. Akerlof, D. Yu. Akimov +387

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a second-generation direct dark matter experiment with spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering sensitivity above cm for a WIMP mass…

hep-ex2021

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…

astro-ph2008

Correlated Multi-Waveband Variability in the Blazar 3C~279 from 1996 to 2007

R. Chatterjee, S. G. Jorstad, A. P. Marscher +12

We present the results of extensive multi-waveband monitoring of the blazar 3C~279 between 1996 and 2007 at X-ray energies (2-10 keV), optical R band, and 14.5 GHz, as well as imag…

astro-ph.SR2020

Constraining Nucleosynthesis in Two CEMP Progenitors Using Fluorine

A. Mura-Guzmán, D. Yong, C. Abate +6

We present new fluorine abundance estimations in two carbon enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars, HE 1429-0551 and HE 1305+0007. HE 1429-0551 is also enriched in slow neutron-capture p…

hep-ex2023

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…

physics.ins-det2019

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment

The LZ Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, C. W. Akerlof +379

We describe the design and assembly of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, a direct detection search for cosmic WIMP dark matter particles. The centerpiece of the experiment is a large liqu…

hep-ex2025

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…

hep-ex2025

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…

hep-ex2024

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…

hep-ex2026

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…

hep-ex2021

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…

hep-ex2022

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…