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Publications (17)

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-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2015

Single neutral pion production by charged-current interactions on hydrocarbon at 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…

physics.ins-det2012

The MINERA Data Acquisition System and Infrastructure

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

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

hep-ex2014

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…

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 and neutrinos incident at 1-20 GeV in the NuMI beam at Fe…

hep-ex2019

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…

hep-ex2015

Measurement of Ratios of Charged-Current Cross Sections on C, Fe, and Pb to CH at Neutrino Energies 2-20 GeV

B. G. Tice, M. Datta, J. Mousseau +74

We present measurements of charged-current cross section ratios on carbon, iron, and lead relative to a scintillator (CH) using the fine-grained MINERvA detector exposed to…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2016

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,…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2012

Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos

D. D. Stancil, P. Adamson, M. Alania +109

Beams of neutrinos have been proposed as a vehicle for communications under unusual circumstances, such as direct point-to-point global communication, communication with submarines…

hep-ex2014

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