H. Ray

Using L/E Oscillation Probability Distributions

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel +41

This paper explores the use of $L / E$ oscillation probability distributions to compare experimental measurements and to evaluate oscillation models. In this case, $L$ is the distanc…

physics.ins-det2025

First Event-by-Event Identification of Cherenkov Radiation from Sub-MeV Particles in Liquid Argon

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, S. Biedron, J. Boissevain +42

This Letter reports the event-by-event observation of Cherenkov light from sub-MeV electrons in a high scintillation light-yield liquid argon (LAr) detector by the Coherent CAPTAIN…

physics.ins-det2017

Technical Design Report (TDR): Searching for a Sterile Neutrino at J-PARC MLF (E56, JSNS2)

S. Ajimura, M. K. Cheoun, J. H. Choi +50

In this document, the technical details of the JSNS $^{2}$ (J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) experiment are described. The search for sterile neutri…

Measurements of the Inclusive Neutrino and Antineutrino Charged Current Cross Sections in MINERvA Using the Low- $I^½$ 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…

Measurement of the muon anti-neutrino double-differential cross section for quasi-elastic scattering on hydrocarbon at~ $E_{I^} ½ \sim 3.5$ 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…

physics.ins-det2022

Monitoring the SNS basement neutron background with the MARS detector

COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +75

We present the analysis and results of the first dataset collected with the MARS neutron detector deployed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) for…

Improved Search for $I^ˉ ½_{I^} ¼ \to I^ˉ ½_{e}$ Oscillations in the MiniBooNE Experiment

The MiniBooNE Collaboration, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown +42

The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reports results from an analysis of $I^ˉ ½_{e}$ appearance data from $11.27 \times 1 0^{20}$ protons on target in antineutrino mode, an increase…

A COHERENT constraint on leptophobic dark matter using CsI data

COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +78

We use data from the COHERENT CsI[Na] scintillation detector to constrain sub-GeV leptophobic dark matter models. This detector was built to observe low-energy nuclear recoils from…

hep-ex2011

Measurement of $I^½_{I^} ¼$ -induced charged-current neutral pion production cross sections on mineral oil at $E_{I^} ½ \in 0.5 - 2.0$ GeV

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson, A. O. Bazarko +82

Using a custom 3 Äerenkov-ring fitter, we report cross sections for $I^½_{I^} ¼$ -induced charged-current single $I ¨ ^{0}$ production on mineral oil (\chtwo) from a sample of 5810 candidat…

First evidence of coherent $K^{+}$ meson production in neutrino-nucleus scattering

Z. Wang, C. M. Marshall, L. Aliaga +68

Neutrino-induced charged-current coherent kaon production, $I^½_{I^} ¼ A \to I^¼^{-} K^{+} A$ , is a rare, inelastic electroweak process that brings a $K^{+}$ on shell and leaves the tar…

nucl-th2023

Cross sections for coherent elastic and inelastic neutrino-nucleus scattering

N. Van Dessel, V. Pandey, H. Ray +1

The prospects of extracting new physics signals in coherent elastic neutrino--nucleus scattering (CE $I^½$ NS) processes are limited by the precision with which the underlying nuclear…

physics.ins-det2016

Status Report (22th J-PARC PAC): Searching for a Sterile Neutrino at J-PARC MLF (E56, JSNS2)

M. Harada, S. Hasegawa, Y. Kasugai +34

The JSNS $^{2}$ (J-PARC E56) experiment aims to search for a sterile neutrino at the J-PARC Materials and Life Sciences Experimental Facility (MLF). After the submission of a proposal…

physics.ins-det2013

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 $I^½_{I^} ¼$ and $I^ˉ ½_{I^} ¼$ neutrinos incident at 1-20 GeV in the NuMI beam at Fe…

physics.ins-det2015

Status Report (BKG measurement): A Search for Sterile Neutrino at J-PARC MLF

M. Harada, S. Hasegawa, Y. Kasugai +31

At the 17th J-PARC PAC, which was held on September 2013, we proposed the sterile neutrino search at J-PARC MLF. After reviewing the proposal, PAC recommended to have a background…

A new investigation of electron neutrino appearance oscillations with improved sensitivity in the MiniBooNE+ experiment

R. Dharmapalan, S. Habib, C. Jiang +34

We propose the addition of scintillator to the existing MiniBooNE detector to allow a test of the neutral-current/charged-current (NC/CC) nature of the MiniBooNE low-energy excess.…

physics.ins-det2020

Performance of PMTs for the JSNS2 experiment

J. S. Park, H. Furuta, T. Maruyama +58

The JSNS $^{2}$ (J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) experiment aims to search for neutrino oscillations over a 24\,m short baseline at J-PARC. The J…

Measurement of $K^{+}$ production in charged-current $I^½_{I^} ¼$ interactions

C. M. Marshall, L. Aliaga, O. Altinok +79

Production of K^{+} mesons in charged-current Î½_Î¼ 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…

First Measurement of the Muon Anti-Neutrino Double-Differential Charged Current Quasi-Elastic Cross Section

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel +42

The largest sample ever recorded of $\numub$ charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE, $\numub + p \to \mup + n$) candidate events is used to produce the minimally model-dependent, flux…

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,…

First Dark Matter Search Results From Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, S. Biedron, J. Boissevain +47

This paper describes the operation of the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) detector located at the Lujan Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). CCM i…

Simulating the neutrino flux from the Spallation Neutron Source for the COHERENT experiment

COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +80

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a pulsed source of neutrons and, as a byproduct of this operation, an intense source of pulsed neutrinos via…

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 ( $< 0.8$ GeV/c) anti-neutrino interactions on plastic (CH) scintillator. These data are from the 2010-2011 antineutrino p…

hep-ex2009

First Measurement of $I^½_{I^} ¼$ and $I^½_{e}$ Events in an Off-Axis Horn-Focused Neutrino Beam

P. Adamson, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson +92

We report the first observation of off-axis neutrino interactions in the MiniBooNE detector from the NuMI beamline at Fermilab. The MiniBooNE detector is located 745 m from the NuM…

Measurement of $I^½_{I^} ¼$ charged-current single $I ¨ ^{0}$ production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

O. Altinok, T. Le, L. Aliaga +57

The semi-exclusive channel $I^½_{I^} ¼ + CH \to I^¼^{-} I ¨ ^{0} + nucleon(s)$ is analyzed using MINERvA exposed to the low-energy NuMI $I^½_{I^} ¼$ beam with spectral peak a…

Measurement of Total and Differential Cross Sections of Neutrino and Antineutrino Coherent $I ¨ ^{\pm}$ Production on Carbon

MINERvA Collaboration, A. Mislivec, A. Higuera +61

Neutrino induced coherent charged pion production on nuclei, $I^½_{I^} ¼ A \to I^¼^{\pm} I ¨ ^{\mp} A$ , is a rare inelastic interaction in which the four-momentum squared transfered to th…

physics.ins-det2020

Construction of precision wire readout planes for the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND)

R. Acciarri, C. Adams, C. Andreopoulos +192

The Short-Baseline Near Detector time projection chamber is unique in the design of its charge readout planes. These anode plane assemblies (APAs) have been fabricated and assemble…

Measurement of the Antineutrino Neutral-Current Elastic Differential Cross Section

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel +42

We report the measurement of the flux-averaged antineutrino neutral current elastic scattering cross section ( $d I ¨ _{I^ˉ ½ N \to I^ˉ ½ N} / d Q^{2}$ ) on CH $_{2}$ by the MiniB…

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 $I^½_{I^} ¼$ -CC( $I ¨ ^{+}$ ) and $I^ˉ ½_{I^} ¼$ -CC( $I ¨ ^{0}$ ) have been obtained using neutr…

hep-ex2011

Measurement of Neutrino-Induced Charged-Current Charged Pion Production Cross Sections on Mineral Oil at E $_{I^} ½ \sim 1 GeV$

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson, A. O. Bazarko +82

Using a high-statistics, high-purity sample of $I^½_{I^} ¼$ -induced charged current, charged pion events in mineral oil (CH $_{2}$ ), MiniBooNE reports a collection of interaction cross sec…

Coherent Scattering Investigations at the Spallation Neutron Source: a Snowmass White Paper

D. Akimov, A. Bernstein, P. Barbeau +54

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, provides an intense flux of neutrinos in the few tens-of-MeV range, with a sharply-pulsed timing st…

Simultaneous measurement of proton and lepton kinematics in quasielastic-like $I^½_{I^} ¼$ -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…

hep-ex2005

Implications of Confirmation of the LSND anti-nu_mu -> anti-nu_e Oscillation Signal

H. Ray

Neutrino oscillations have been observed in solar and atmospheric neutrinos, and in the LSND accelerator experiment. The Standard Model cannot accommodate all three positive result…

Neutral pion reconstruction using machine learning in the MINERvA experiment at $⟨ E_{I^} ½ ⟩ \sim 6$ 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…

hep-ex2025

The Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab

SBND Collaboration, R. Acciarri, L. Aliaga-Soplin +195

SBND is a 112 ton liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector located 110 meters from the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) target at Fermilab. Its main goals include…

Dual baseline search for muon antineutrino disappearance at 0.1 eV^2 < Îm^2 < 100 eV^2

MiniBooNE Collaboration, SciBooNE Collaboration, G. Cheng +88

The MiniBooNE and SciBooNE collaborations report the results of a joint search for short baseline disappearance of \bar{Î½_Î¼} at Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beamline. The MiniBooN…

Measurement of inclusive charged-current $I^½_{I^} ¼$ cross sections as a function of muon kinematics at $< E_{I^} ½ >\sim 6 G e V$ 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…

hep-ex2023

Accessing new physics with an undoped, cryogenic CsI CEvNS detector for COHERENT at the SNS

P. S. Barbeau, V. Belov, I. Bernardi +77

We consider the potential for a 10-kg undoped cryogenic CsI detector operating at the Spallation Neutron Source to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and its sens…

physics.ins-det2023

COHERENT Collaboration data release from the measurements of CsI[Na] response to nuclear recoils

D. Akimov, P. An, C. Awe +75

Description of the data release 10.13139/OLCF/1969085 (https://doi.ccs.ornl.gov/ui/doi/426) from the measurements of the CsI[Na] response to low energy nuclear recoils by the COHER…

hep-ex2015

Single neutral pion production by charged-current $I^ˉ ½_{I^} ¼$ interactions on hydrocarbon at $⟨ E_{I^} ½ ⟩ =$ 3.6 GeV

T. Le, J. L. Palomino, L. Aliaga +62

Single neutral pion production via muon antineutrino charged-current interactions in plastic scintillator (CH) is studied using the \minerva detector exposed to the NuMI low-energy…

hep-ex2024

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) $I ¨ ^{0}$ production on carbon nuclei using events with fully imaged final-state proton- $I ¨ ^{0}$ systems. Novel use of final-state correla…

physics.ins-det2021

A D $_{2}$ O detector for flux normalization of a pion decay-at-rest neutrino source

COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +76

We report on the technical design and expected performance of a 592 kg heavy-water-Cherenkov detector to measure the absolute neutrino flux from the pion-decay-at-rest neutrino sou…

nucl-ex2018

COHERENT Collaboration data release from the first observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering

COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, J. B. Albert +91

This release includes data and information necessary to perform independent analyses of the COHERENT result presented in Akimov et al., arXiv:1708.01294 [nucl-ex]. Data is shared i…

hep-ex2017

Measurement of neutral-current $K^{+}$ production by neutrinos using MINERvA

C. M. Marshall, L. Aliaga, O. Altinok +64

Neutral-current production of $K^{+}$ by atmospheric neutrinos is a background in searches for the proton decay $p \to K^{+} I^ˉ ½$ . Reactions such as $Î½p \rightarrow Î½K…

Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E_Î½ ~ 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 $Î½_{\numu}$ 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 $I^½_{I^} ¼$ -carbon interactions with three-momentum transfer $∣ q ∣ < 1.2$ GeV obtained with medi…

Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E_Î½ ~ 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…

hep-ph2022

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering: Terrestrial and astrophysical applications

M. Abdullah, H. Abele, D. Akimov +272

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE $I^½$ NS) is a process in which neutrinos scatter on a nucleus which acts as a single particle. Though the total cross section is larg…

hep-ex2017

Dark Matter Search in a Proton Beam Dump with MiniBooNE

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, M. Backfish, A. Bashyal +40

The MiniBooNE-DM collaboration searched for vector-boson mediated production of dark matter using the Fermilab 8 GeV Booster proton beam in a dedicated run with $1.86 \times 10^{20…

hep-ex2015

Measurement of muon plus proton final states in $I^½_{I^} ¼$ Interactions on Hydrocarbon at $⟨$ $E_{I^} ½$ $⟩$ = 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…

physics.ins-det2025

Measurement of the Liquid Argon Scintillation Pulse Shape Using Differentiable Simulation in the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills Experiment

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, S. Biedron, J. Boissevain +42

The Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) experiment is a liquid argon (LAr) light collection detector searching for MeV-scale neutrino and Beyond Standard Model physics signatures. Two hun…

Arachne - A web-based event viewer for MINERvA

N. Tagg, J. Brangham, J. Chvojka +35

Neutrino interaction events in the MINERvA detector are visually represented with a web-based tool called Arachne. Data are retrieved from a central server via AJAX, and client-sid…

Letter of Intent: A new investigation of numu to nue oscillations with improved sensitivity in an enhanced MiniBooNE experiment

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel +33

We propose adding 300 mg/l PPO to the existing MiniBooNE detector mineral oil to increase the scintillation response. This will allow the detection of associated neutrons and incre…

Significant Excess of ElectronLike Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment

MiniBooNE Collaboration, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown +45

The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reports results from an analysis of $I^½_{e}$ appearance data from $12.84 \times 1 0^{20}$ protons on target in neutrino mode, an increase of appro…

physics.ins-det2020

The JSNS $^{2}$ data acquisition system

J. S. Park, S. Ajimura, M. Botran +58

The JSNS $^{2}$ (J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) experiment aims to search for neutrino oscillations over a 24 m short baseline at J-PARC. The JS…

physics.ins-det2013

The OscSNS White Paper

OscSNS Collaboration, R. Allen, F. T. Avignone +26

There exists a need to address and resolve the growing evidence for short-baseline neutrino oscillations and the possible existence of sterile neutrinos. Such non-standard particle…

nucl-ex2024

Measurement of the Electron-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on $^{127}$ I with the COHERENT NaI $I^½$ E detector

P. An, C. Awe, P. S. Barbeau +86

Using an 185-kg NaI[Tl] array, COHERENT has measured the inclusive electron-neutrino charged-current cross section on $^{127}$ I with pion decay-at-rest neutrinos produced by the…

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…

Test of Lorentz and CPT violation with Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Excesses

The MiniBooNE Collaboration, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson +84

The sidereal time dependence of MiniBooNE electron neutrino and anti-electron neutrino appearance data are analyzed to search for evidence of Lorentz and CPT violation. An unbinned…

hep-ph2005

Measuring Active-Sterile Neutrino Oscillations with a Stopped Pion Neutrino Source

G. T. Garvey, A. Green, C. Green +7

The question of the existence of light sterile neutrinos is of great interest in many areas of particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. Furthermore, should the MiniBooNE expe…

physics.ins-det2015

Status Report for the 20th J-PARC PAC : A Search for Sterile Neutrino at J-PARC MLF (J-PARC E56, JSNS2)

M. Harada, S. Hasegawa, Y. Kasugai +28

On April 2015, the J-PARC E56 (JSNS2: J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search using neutrinos from J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) experiment officially obtained stage-1 approval from J-P…

Updated MiniBooNE Neutrino Oscillation Results with Increased Data and New Background Studies

MiniBooNE Collaboration, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown +39

The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reports a total excess of $638.0 \pm 132.8$ electron-like events ( $4.8 I ¨ $ ) from a data sample corresponding to $18.75 \times 1 0^{20}$ protons-…

physics.data-an2021

Cosmic Background Removal with Deep Neural Networks in SBND

SBND Collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams +128

In liquid argon time projection chambers exposed to neutrino beams and running on or near surface levels, cosmic muons and other cosmic particles are incident on the detectors whil…

hep-ex2020

Double-Differential Inclusive Charged-Current $I^½_{I^} ¼$ Cross Sections on Hydrocarbon in MINERvA at $⟨ E_{I^} ½ ⟩ \sim$ 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…

hep-ex2023

Measurement of the Multi-Neutron $I^ˉ ½_{I^} ¼$ 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…

hep-ex2010

First Measurement of the Muon Neutrino Charged Current Quasielastic Double Differential Cross Section

MiniBooNE Collaboration, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson +82

A high-statistics sample of charged-current muon neutrino scattering events collected with the MiniBooNE experiment is analyzed to extract the first measurement of the double diffe…

physics.data-an2018

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…

A Combined $I^½_{I^} ¼ \to I^½_{e}$ and $I^ˉ ½_{I^} ¼ \to I^ˉ ½_{e}$ Oscillation Analysis of the MiniBooNE Excesses

MiniBooNE Collaboration, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown +42

The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reports results from an analysis of the combined $I^½_{e}$ and $I^ˉ ½_{e}$ appearance data from $6.46 \times 1 0^{20}$ protons on target in neutrin…

First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel +46

We report the first measurement of monoenergetic muon neutrino charged current interactions. MiniBooNE has isolated 236 MeV muon neutrino events originating from charged kaon decay…

hep-ex2009

Measurement of the Î½_Î¼charged current Ï^+ to quasi-elastic cross section ratio on mineral oil in a 0.8 GeV neutrino beam

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson, A. O. Bazarko +77

Using high statistics samples of charged current $I^½_{I^} ¼$ interactions, MiniBooNE reports a measurement of the single charged pion production to quasi-elastic cross section ratio on…

hep-ex2008

First Observation of Coherent $I ¨ ^{0}$ Production in Neutrino Nucleus Interactions with $E_{I^} ½ <$ 2 GeV

The MiniBooNE Collaboration, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson +77

The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab has amassed the largest sample to date of $I ¨ ^{0}$ s produced in neutral current (NC) neutrino-nucleus interactions at low energy. This paper repo…

Characterization of the correlated background for a sterile neutrino search using the first dataset of the JSNS $^{2}$ experiment

Y. Hino, S. Ajimura, M. K. Cheoun +62

JSNS $^{2}$ (J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) is an experiment that is searching for sterile neutrinos via the observation of $\barÎ½_Î¼ \to \barÎ½_…

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…

First Leptophobic Dark Matter Search from Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. S. M. Alves, S. Biedron +48

We report the first results of a search for leptophobic dark matter (DM) from the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) liquid argon (LAr) detector. An engineering run with 120 photomultipl…

hep-ex2020

Proposal: JSNS $^{2}$ -II

S. Ajimura, M. Botran, J. H. Choi +64

This article describes the goal and expected sensitivity of the JSNS $^{2}$ -II experiment at J-PARC Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF). The JSNS $^{2}$ -II experiment…

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…

hep-ex2007

The MiniBooNE Experiment : An Overview

H. Ray

Neutrino oscillations have been observed in three sectors : solar ( $I^½_{e}$ disappearance), atmospheric ( $I^½_{I^} ¼$ disappearance), and accelerator ( $I^½_{I^} ¼ ˉ \to I^½_{e} ˉ$ ). The p…

Measurement of electron neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon at $⟨ E_{I^} ½ ⟩$ = 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…

MiniBooNE and MicroBooNE Combined Fit to a 3+1 Sterile Neutrino Scenario

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, J. M. Conrad +36

This letter presents the results from the MiniBooNE experiment within a full "3+1" scenario where one sterile neutrino is introduced to the three-active-neutrino picture. In additi…

physics.ins-det2016

The COHERENT Experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source

COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +64

The COHERENT collaboration's primary objective is to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) using the unique, high-quality source of tens-of-MeV neutrinos pro…

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…

physics.ins-det2012

The MINER $I^½$ A Data Acquisition System and Infrastructure

G. N. Perdue, L. Bagby, B. Baldin +40

MINER $I^½$ A (Main INjector ExpeRiment $I^½$ -A) is a new few-GeV neutrino cross section experiment that began taking data in the FNAL NuMI (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Neutr…

Opportunities for Neutrino Physics at the Spallation Neutron Source: A White Paper

A. Bolozdynya, F. Cavanna, Y. Efremenko +16

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, provides an intense flux of neutrinos in the few tens-of-MeV range, with a sharply-pulsed timing st…

Measurement of $I^ˉ ½_{I^} ¼$ charged-current single $I ¨ ^{-}$ production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

T. Le, F. Akbar, L. Aliaga +63

The antineutrino scattering channel $I^ˉ ½_{I^} ¼ CH \to I^¼^{+} I ¨ ^{-} X$ (nucleon(s)) is analyzed in the incident energy range 1.5 to 10 GeV using the MINERvA det…

hep-ex2010

Measurement of Î½_Î¼and \barÎ½_Î¼induced neutral current single $I ¨ ^{0}$ production cross sections on mineral oil at E_Î½O(1 GeV)

The MiniBooNE Collaboration, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson +83

MiniBooNE reports the first absolute cross sections for neutral current single Ï^0 production on CH_2 induced by neutrino and antineutrino interactions measured from the largest s…

Measurement of the neutrino component of an anti-neutrino beam observed by a non-magnetized detector

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson, S. J. Brice +51

Two independent methods are employed to measure the neutrino flux of the anti-neutrino-mode beam observed by the MiniBooNE detector. The first method compares data to simulated eve…

hep-ex2009

A Letter of Intent to Build a MiniBooNE Near Detector: BooNE

I. Stancu, Z. Djurcic, D. Smith +19

There is accumulating evidence for a difference between neutrino and antineutrino oscillations at the $\sim 1$ eV $^{2}$ scale. The MiniBooNE experiment observes an unexplained excess…

MiniBooNE Data Releases

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, J. M. Conrad +38

The MiniBooNE experiment has provided data releases for most publications. Occasionally it is necessary to move data release pages. This document provides a single point of referen…

hep-ex2026

The COHERENT Experiment: 2026 Update

M. Adhikari, M. Ahn, D. Amaya Matamoros +107

The COHERENT experiment measures neutrino-induced recoils from coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) with multiple nuclear targets at the Spallation Neutron Source (…

nucl-ex2017

Observation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering

D. Akimov, J. B. Albert, P. An +78

The coherent elastic scattering of neutrinos off nuclei has eluded detection for four decades, even though its predicted cross-section is the largest by far of all low-energy neutr…

hep-ex2023

High-Statistics Measurement of Antineutrino Quasielastic-like scattering at $E_{I^} ½ \sim$ 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 $I ¨ ^{\pm}$ in Neutrino and Anti-Neutrino Beams on Carbon from $E_{I^} ½$ of $1.5$ to $20$ GeV

A. Higuera, A. Mislivec, L. Aliaga +69

Neutrino-induced coherent charged pion production on nuclei, $I^(-) ½_{I^} ¼ A \to I^¼^{\pm} I ¨ ^{\mp} A$ is a rare, inelastic interaction in which a small squared four-momentum $∣ t ∣$ …

hep-ph2012

Light Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper

K. N. Abazajian, M. A. Acero, S. K. Agarwalla +184

This white paper addresses the hypothesis of light sterile neutrinos based on recent anomalies observed in neutrino experiments and the latest astrophysical data.

physics.ins-det2021

The JSNS^2 Detector

S. Ajimura, M. Botran, J. H. Choi +63

The JSNS^2 (J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) experiment aims to search for oscillations involving a sterile neutrino in the eV^2 mass-splitting r…

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…

physics.ins-det2015

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…

hep-ph2024

Testing Meson Portal Dark Sector Solutions to the MiniBooNE Anomaly at CCM

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, S. Biedron, J. Boissevain +42

A solution to the MiniBooNE excess invoking rare three-body decays of the charged pions and kaons to new states in the MeV mass scale was recently proposed as a dark-sector explana…

hep-ex2011

Dual baseline search for muon neutrino disappearance at 0.5 eV^2 < Îm^2 < 40 eV^2

MiniBooNE, SciBooNE Collaborations, : +126

The SciBooNE and MiniBooNE collaborations report the results of a Î½_Î¼disappearance search in the Îm^2 region of 0.5-40 eV^2. The neutrino rate as measured by the SciBooNE tracki…