V. Pandey

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…

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…

PIP2-BD: GeV Proton Beam Dump at Fermilab's PIP-II Linac

M. Toups, R. G. Van de Water, Brian Batell +27

The PIP-II superconducting RF linac is currently under construction at Fermilab and is expected to be completed by the end of 2028. PIP-II is capable of operating in a continuous-w…

physics.ins-det2020

Vertex-Finding and Reconstruction of Contained Two-track Neutrino Events in the MicroBooNE Detector

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed +186

We describe algorithms developed to isolate and accurately reconstruct two-track events that are contained within the MicroBooNE detector. This method is optimized to reconstruct t…

hep-ex2023

Electron Scattering and Neutrino Physics

A. M. Ankowski, A. Ashkenazi, S. Bacca +50

A thorough understanding of neutrino-nucleus scattering physics is crucial for the successful execution of the entire US neutrino physics program. Neutrino-nucleus interaction cons…

nucl-ex2018

First Measurement of the Ti $(e, e^{'}) X$ Cross Section at Jefferson Lab

H. Dai, M. Murphy, V. Pandey +54

To probe CP violation in the leptonic sector using GeV energy neutrino beams in current and future experiments using argon detectors, precise models of the complex underlying neutr…

physics.ins-det2022

Low-Energy Physics in Neutrino LArTPCs

D. Caratelli, W. Foreman, A. Friedland +285

In this white paper, we outline some of the scientific opportunities and challenges related to detection and reconstruction of low-energy (less than 100 MeV) signatures in liquid a…

hep-ph2024

Low-Energy Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering and New Physics

S. Carey, V. Pandey

The interactions of low-energy neutrinos with nuclei provide a unique window to explore various Standard Model (SM) and Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) processes. In particular, th…

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…

Measurement of the cross sections for inclusive electron scattering in the E12-14-012 experiment at Jefferson Lab

M. Murphy, H. Dai, L. Gu +56

The E12-14-012 experiment performed at Jefferson Lab Hall A has collected inclusive electron-scattering data for different targets at the kinematics corresponding to beam energy 2.…

Towards mono-energetic virtual $I^½$ beam cross-section measurements: A feasibility study of $I^½$ -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…

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…

nucl-ex2020

Probing few-body nuclear dynamics via 3H and 3He (e,e'p)pn cross-section measurements

R. Cruz-Torres, D. Nguyen, F. Hauenstein +125

We report the first measurement of the \eep three-body breakup reaction cross sections in helium-3 ( $^{3}$ He) and tritium ( $^{3}$ H) at large momentum transfer ($\langle Q^2 \rangle \ap…

physics.ins-det2018

Ionization Electron Signal Processing in Single Phase LArTPCs II. Data/Simulation Comparison and Performance in MicroBooNE

MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, R. An +168

The single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) provides a large amount of detailed information in the form of fine-grained drifted ionization charge from particle t…

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…

nucl-ex2019

First Measurement of the Ar $(e, e^{'}) X$ Cross Section at Jefferson Lab

H. Dai, M. Murphy, V. Pandey +55

The success of the ambitious programs of both long- and short-baseline neutrino-oscillation experiments employing liquid-argon time-projection chambers will greatly rely on the pre…

Reconstruction and Measurement of $O$ (100) MeV Energy Electromagnetic Activity from $I ¨ ^{0} \to I^^{3} I^^{3}$ Decays in the MicroBooNE LArTPC

MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +186

We present results on the reconstruction of electromagnetic (EM) activity from photons produced in charged current $I^½_{I^} ¼$ interactions with final state $I ¨ ^{0}$ s. We employ a fully-…

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…

physics.acc-ph2025

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…

Implementation of the CRPA model in the GENIE event generator and analysis of nuclear effects in low-energy transfer neutrino-nucleus interactions

S. Dolan, A. Nikolakopoulos, O. Page +3

We present the implementation and validation of the Hartree-Fock continuum random phase approximation (HF-CRPA) model in the GENIE neutrino-nucleus interaction event generator and…

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…

nucl-ex2022

Determination of the argon spectral function from (e,e'p) data

L. Jiang, A. M. Ankowski, D. Abrams +60

The E12-14-012 experiment, performed in Jefferson Lab Hall A, has measured the $(e, e^{'} p)$ cross section in parallel kinematics using a natural argon target. Here, we report the ful…

nucl-ex2023

Determination of the titanium spectral function from (e,e'p) data

L. Jiang, A. M. Ankowski, D. Abrams +62

The E12-14-012 experiment, performed in Jefferson Lab Hall A, has measured the (e,e'p) cross section in parallel kinematics using a natural titanium target. Here, we report the ful…

nucl-ex2019

Comparing proton momentum distributions in $A = 2$ and 3 nuclei via $^{2}$ H $^{3}$ H and $^{3}$ He $(e, e^{'} p)$ measurements

R. Cruz-Torres, S. Li, F. Hauenstein +125

We report the first measurement of the $(e, e^{'} p)$ reaction cross-section ratios for Helium-3 ( $^{3}$ He), Tritium ( $^{3}$ H), and Deuterium ( $d$ ). The measurement covered a missing moment…

nucl-th2014

Quasielastic contribution to antineutrino-nucleus scattering

V. Pandey, N. Jachowicz, J. Ryckebusch +2

We report on a calculation of cross sections for charged-current quasielastic antineutrino scattering off $^{12}$ C in the energy range of interest for the MiniBooNE experiment. We…

First Measurement of Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged Current Differential Cross Sections on Argon at $E_{I^} ½ \sim 0.8$ GeV with the MicroBooNE Detector

P. Abratenko, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +178

We report the first measurement of the double-differential and total muon neutrino charged current inclusive cross sections on argon at a mean neutrino energy of 0.8 GeV. Data were…

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…

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…

A Method to Determine the Electric Field of Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers Using a UV Laser System and its Application in MicroBooNE

MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +187

Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) are now a standard detector technology for making accelerator neutrino measurements, due to their high material density, precise tra…

hep-ex2020

Search for heavy neutral leptons decaying into muon-pion pairs in the MicroBooNE detector

P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed, R. An +181

We present upper limits on the production of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) decaying to $I^¼ I ¨ $ pairs using data collected with the MicroBooNE liquid-argon time projection chamber (TP…

hep-ex2023

Potential Constraints to Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions Based on Electron Scattering Data

V. Pandey

A thorough understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions physics is crucial to achieving precision goals in broader neutrino physics programs. The complexity of nuclei comprising…

Density Changes in Low Pressure Gas Targets for Electron Scattering Experiments

S. N. Santiesteban, S. Alsalmi, D. Meekins +21

A system of modular sealed gas target cells has been developed for use in electron scattering experiments at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). Thi…

Neutrino Scattering: Connections Across Theory and Experiment

L. Alvarez-Ruso, A. M. Ankowski, A. Ashkenazi +31

In this document drafted by the Neutrino Scattering Theory Experiment Collaboration (NuSTEC), we provide input on the synergies between theoretical and experimental efforts that ca…

nucl-ex2024

The EMC Effect of Tritium and Helium-3 from the JLab MARATHON Experiment

D. Abrams, H. Albataineh, B. S. Aljawrneh +131

Measurements of the EMC effect in the tritium and helium-3 mirror nuclei are reported. The data were obtained by the MARATHON Jefferson Lab experiment, which performed deep inelast…

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…

nucl-th2016

Impact of low-energy nuclear excitations on neutrino-nucleus scattering at MiniBooNE and T2K kinematics

V. Pandey, N. Jachowicz, M. Martini +4

[Background] Meticulous modeling of neutrino-nucleus interactions is essential to achieve the unprecedented precision goals of present and future accelerator-based neutrino-oscilla…

Comparison of Î½Î¼-Ar multiplicity distributions observed by MicroBooNE to GENIE model predictions

C. Adams, R. An, J. Anthony +162

We measure a large set of observables in inclusive charged current muon neutrino scattering on argon with the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber operating at Fermilab.…

physics.ins-det2024

Scintillation Light in SBND: Simulation, Reconstruction, and Expected Performance of the Photon Detection System

SBND Collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. Acciarri +180

SBND is the near detector of the Short-Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab. Its location near to the Booster Neutrino Beam source and relatively large mass will allow the study o…

hep-ex2018

First Measurement of $I^½_{I^} ¼$ Charged-Current $I ¨ ^{0}$ Production on Argon with a LArTPC

MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +172

We report the first measurement of the flux-integrated cross section of $I^½_{I^} ¼$ charged-current single $I ¨ ^{0}$ production on argon. This measurement is performed with the MicroBoo…

physics.data-an2025

DUNE Software and Computing Research and Development

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…

Charge readout electronics for the DUNE horizontal drift far detector: design and performance in ProtoDUNE-HD

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1398

DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment currently under construction, whose far detectors will be the largest liquid argon ti…

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…

hep-ex2018

A Deep Neural Network for Pixel-Level Electromagnetic Particle Identification in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +170

We have developed a convolutional neural network (CNN) that can make a pixel-level prediction of objects in image data recorded by a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) f…

hep-ph2025

Event Generators for High-Energy Physics Experiments

J. M. Campbell, M. Diefenthaler, T. J. Hobbs +221

We provide an overview of the status of Monte-Carlo event generators for high-energy particle physics. Guided by the experimental needs and requirements, we highlight areas of acti…

Operation of a Modular 3D-Pixelated Liquid Argon Time-Projection Chamber in a Neutrino Beam

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1318

The 2x2 Demonstrator, a prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) liquid argon (LAr) Near Detector, was exposed to the Neutrinos from the Main Injector (NuMI) n…

hep-ex2024

White Paper on Light Sterile Neutrino Searches and Related Phenomenology

M. A. Acero, C. A. ArgÃ¼elles, M. Hostert +169

This white paper provides a comprehensive review of our present understanding of experimental neutrino anomalies that remain unresolved, charting the progress achieved over the las…

Rejecting cosmic background for exclusive neutrino interaction studies with Liquid Argon TPCs; a case study with the MicroBooNE detector

MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +172

Cosmic ray (CR) interactions can be a challenging source of background for neutrino oscillation and cross-section measurements in surface detectors. We present methods for CR rejec…

Production and installation of wavelength-shifting reflective light enhancers for the Short-Baseline Near Detector

R. Acciarri, L. Aliaga-Soplin, R. Alvarez-Garrote +194

We report on the design, production, and installation of a wavelength-shifting reflective system on the cathode of the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND), a liquid argon time proj…

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…

nucl-th2016

Electron-neutrino scattering off nuclei from two different theoretical perspectives

M. Martini, N. Jachowicz, M. Ericson +3

We analyze charged-current electron-neutrino cross sections on Carbon. We consider two different theoretical approaches, on one hand the Continuum Random Phase Approximation (CRPA)…

physics.ins-det2020

Calibration of the charge and energy loss per unit length of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber using muons and protons

MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +186

We describe a method used to calibrate the position- and time-dependent response of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber anode wires to ionization particle energy lo…

physics.ins-det2021

Measurement of the Atmospheric Muon Rate with the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC

MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +187

MicroBooNE is a near-surface liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC) located at Fermilab. We measure the characterisation of muons originating from cosmic interactions in…

Operation and performance of ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon time projection chamber

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1360

ProtoDUNE-DP was the largest ever built Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) operating in Dual-Phase (DP) mode, with a liquid target and charge read-out placed in the gas.…

nucl-th2015

Quasielastic electron- and neutrino-nucleus scattering in a continuum random phase approximation approach

V. Pandey, N. Jachowicz, T. Van Cuyck +2

We present a continuum random phase approximation approach to study electron- and neutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections, in the kinematic region where quasielastic scattering…

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-ex2026

Sampling Off-Axis Neutrino Fluxes with the Short-Baseline Near Detector

P. Abratenko, R. Acciarri, C. Adams +199

The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND), the near detector in the Short-Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is located just 110 m from the Booster N…

Measurement of Exclusive $I ¨ ^{+}$ --argon Interactions Using ProtoDUNE-SP

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1323

We present the measurement of $I ¨ ^{+}$ --argon inelastic cross sections using the ProtoDUNE Single-Phase liquid argon time projection chamber in the incident $I ¨ ^{+}$ kinetic energy r…

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…

hep-ex2021

Measurement of the Nucleon $F_{2}^{n} / F_{2}^{p}$ Structure Function Ratio by the Jefferson Lab MARATHON Tritium/Helium-3 Deep Inelastic Scattering Experiment

MARATHON Collaboration, D. Abrams, H. Albataineh +129

The ratio of the nucleon $F_{2}$ structure functions, $F_{2}^{n} / F_{2}^{p}$ , is determined by the MARATHON experiment from measurements of deep inelastic scattering of electrons from $^{3}$ H a…

nucl-th2017

Electroweak single-pion production off the nucleon: from threshold to high invariant masses

[Background] Neutrino-induced single-pion production (SPP) provides an important contribution to neutrino-nucleus interactions, ranging from intermediate to high energies. There ex…

hep-ex2026

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…

physics.ins-det2018

Ionization Electron Signal Processing in Single Phase LArTPCs I. Algorithm Description and Quantitative Evaluation with MicroBooNE Simulation

MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, R. An +166

We describe the concept and procedure of drifted-charge extraction developed in the MicroBooNE experiment, a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). This techni…

nucl-ex2017

Probing electron-argon scattering for liquid-argon based neutrino-oscillation program

V. Pandey, D. Abrams, S. Alsalmi +9

The electron scattering has been a vital tool to study the properties of the target nucleus for over five decades. Though, the particular interest on $^{40}$ Ar nucleus stemmed from…

Snowmass Neutrino Frontier: Neutrino Interaction Cross Sections (NF06) Topical Group Report

A. B. Balantekin, S. Gardiner, K. Mahn +14

A thorough understanding of neutrino cross sections in a wide range of energies is crucial for the successful execution of the entire neutrino physics program. In order to extract…

nucl-th2020

Modeling neutrino-nucleus interaction at intermediate energies

We present the current status of the research activities of the Ghent group on neutrino-nucleus interactions. These consist in the modeling of some of the relevant neutrino-nucleus…

nucl-th2016

Neutrino induced 1-pion production

Neutrino-induced pion production constitutes an important contribution to neutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections at intermediate energies. A deep understanding of this process…

nucl-th2015

Low-energy excitations and quasielastic contribution to electron-nucleus and neutrino-nucleus scattering in the continuum random phase approximation

V. Pandey, N. Jachowicz, T. Van Cuyck +2

We present a detailed study of a continuum random phase approximation approach to quasielastic electron-nucleus and neutrino-nucleus scattering. The formalism is validated by confr…

nucl-ex2021

Measurement of the Ar(e,e $^{'}$ p) and Ti(e,e $^{'}$ p) cross sections in Jefferson Lab Hall A

L. Gu, D. Abrams, A. M. Ankowski +58

The E12-14-012 experiment, performed in Jefferson Lab Hall A, has collected exclusive electron-scattering data (e,e $^{'}$ p) in parallel kinematics using natural argon and natura…

hep-ex2020

Snowmass 2021 LoI: Neutrino-induced Shallow- and Deep-Inelastic Scattering

L. Alvarez-Ruso, A. M. Ankowski, M. Sajjad Athar +30

In neutrino interactions with nucleons and nuclei, Shallow Inelastic Scattering (SIS) refers to processes, dominated by non-resonant contributions, in the kinematic region where $Q…

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…

nucl-ex2026

First Measurement of $I ¨ ^{+}$ -Ar and $p$ -Ar Total Inelastic Cross Sections in the Sub-GeV Energy Regime with ProtoDUNE-SP Data

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1346

The ProtoDUNE-SP detector, a kiloton-scale prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) far detector, is the largest liquid argon time projection chamber built to…

hep-ex2023

Physics Opportunities at a Beam Dump Facility at PIP-II at Fermilab and Beyond

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, J. L. Barrow, C. Bhat +45

The Fermilab Proton-Improvement-Plan-II (PIP-II) is being implemented in order to support the precision neutrino oscillation measurements at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experimen…

hep-ph2023

Recent Progress in Low Energy Neutrino Scattering Physics and Its Implications for the Standard and Beyond the Standard Model Physics

V. Pandey

Neutrinos continue to provide a testing ground for the structure of the standard model of particle physics as well as hints towards the physics beyond the standard model. Neutrinos…