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The NOvA Test Beam Experiment
NOvA Collaboration, S. Abubakar, M. A. Acero +208
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to study the neutrino mixing parameters, mass ordering, and CP violation in the lepton sector. A key component of t…
NOvA Dual-Baseline Search for Active-to-Sterile Neutrino Oscillations using Neutrino- and Antineutrino-Enriched Samples
NOvA Collaboration, S. Abubakar, M. A. Acero +185
We report a search for neutrino oscillations to sterile neutrinos in the NOvA detectors under a model with three active and one sterile neutrinos. This search simultaneously fits d…
Neutron detector response modeling in NOvA
NOvA Collaboration, S. Abubakar, M. A. Acero +194
Neutrons can present a significant challenge for neutrino experiments in which energy reconstruction is critical. With the ability to escape detection completely and with a weak co…
Performance of the Eos detector with water
Eos Collaboration, S. Arora, M. Askins +64
In this manuscript we present the first results from Eos, a four tonne optical detector located at the University of California, Berkeley. The primary goal of Eos is to demonstrate…
Reconstruction of neutrino events in the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment: Part I
S. Abubakar, M. Acsencio-Sosa, D. Ajana +65
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) was designed to reconstruct neutrino events from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) with the parallel goals of…
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…
First Light from Beam Neutrinos on an LAPPD in ANNIE
B. W. Adams, S. Abubakar, D. Ajana +71
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is both a physics experiment and a technology testbed for next-generation light-based neutrino detection. In this pa…
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…
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 MeV…
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…
Comprehensive Machine Learning Model Comparison for Cherenkov and Scintillation Light Separation due to Particle Interactions
Emrah Tiras, Merve Tas, Dilara Kizilkaya +2
The demand for novel detector mediums such as Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) has increased over the last few decades due to their capability for both low energy particle in…
SSLG4: A Novel Scintillator Simulation Library for Geant4
Mustafa Kandemir, Emrah Tiras, Burcu Kirezli +1
This study introduces a new Scintillator Simulation Library called SSLG4 for the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation package. With SSLG4, we aim to enhance efficiency and accelerate prog…
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…
Deployment of Water-based Liquid Scintillator in the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment
ANNIE Collaboration, M. Ascencio-Sosa, Z. Bagdasarian +52
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a 26-ton water Cherenkov neutrino detector installed on the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. Its main phy…
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 (appearance)…
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…
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…
Theia: Summary of physics program. Snowmass White Paper Submission
M. Askins, Z. Bagdasarian, N. Barros +84
Theia would be a novel, "hybrid" optical neutrino detector, with a rich physics program. This paper is intended to provide a brief overview of the concepts and physics reach of The…
NuSD: A Geant4 based simulation framework for segmented anti-neutrino detectors
Mustafa Kandemir, Emrah Tiras, Vincent Fischer
NuSD: Neutrino Segmented Detector is a Geant4-based user application that simulates inverse beta decay event in a variety of segmented scintillation detectors developed by differen…
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…
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 the NOvA exper…
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…
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…
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…