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most citedFirst measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters using neutrinos and antineutrinos by NOvA

319 citations · 2.7k across the 51 of their papers we have counts for

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51 papers

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 MeV…

hep-ex2024

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…

hep-ex2024★ 7 cited

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-ex2022★ 8 cited

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-ex2022★ 9 cited

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…

hep-ex2021★ 14 cited

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…

hep-ex2021★ 204 cited

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…

hep-ex2021★ 4 cited

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-ex2021★ 1 cited

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…

hep-ex2021★ 8 cited

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…

hep-ph2020★ 6 cited

Summary of the NuSTEC Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Pion Production in the Resonance Region

L. Aliaga, A. Ashkenazi, C. Bronner +20

The NuSTEC workshop held at the University of Pittsburgh in October 2019 brought theorists and experimentalists together to discuss the state of modeling and measurements related t…

hep-ex2020★ 14 cited

Search for Slow Magnetic Monopoles with the NOvA Detector on the Surface

NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson +196

We report a search for a magnetic monopole component of the cosmic-ray flux in a 95-day exposure of the NOvA experiment's Far Detector, a 14 kt segmented liquid scintillator detect…

hep-ex2020★ 34 cited

Adjusting Neutrino Interaction Models and Evaluating Uncertainties using NOvA Near Detector Data

NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson +192

The two-detector design of the NOvA neutrino oscillation experiment, in which two functionally identical detectors are exposed to an intense neutrino beam, aids in canceling leadin…

physics.ins-det2020★ 23 cited

Supernova neutrino detection in NOvA

NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson +199

The NOvA long-baseline neutrino experiment uses a pair of large, segmented, liquid-scintillator calorimeters to study neutrino oscillations, using GeV-scale neutrinos from the Ferm…

hep-ex2020★ 9 cited

Search for multi-messenger signals in NOvA coincident with LIGO/Virgo detections

NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson +177

Using the NOvA neutrino detectors, a broad search has been performed for any signal coincident with 28 gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration between Se…

hep-ex2019★ 319 cited

First measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters using neutrinos and antineutrinos by NOvA

M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +196

The NOvA experiment has made a -significant observation of appearance in a 2 GeV beam at a distance of 810 km. Using protons on tar…

hep-ex2019★ 24 cited

Measurement of charged-current single production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

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

The antineutrino scattering channel (nucleon(s)) is analyzed in the incident energy range 1.5 to 10 GeV using the MINERvA detecto…

hep-ex2019★ 68 cited

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-det2019★ 15 cited

Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the NOvA Near Detector

M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +188

Using two years of data from the NOvA Near Detector at Fermilab, we report a seasonal variation of cosmic ray induced multiple-muon event rates which has an opposite phase to the s…

hep-ex2019★ 17 cited

Measurement of Neutrino-Induced Neutral-Current Coherent Production in the NOvA Near Detector

M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +188

The cross section of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent production on a carbon-dominated target is measured in the NOvA near detector. This measurement uses a narrow-b…

hep-ex2019★ 31 cited

Neutron measurements from anti-neutrino hydrocarbon reactions

M. Elkins, T. Cai, J. Chaves +72

Charged-current anti-neutrino interactions on hydrocarbon scintillator in the MINERvA detector are used to study activity from their final-state neutrons. To ensure that most of th…

hep-ex2018★ 62 cited

Measurement of Quasielastic-Like Neutrino Scattering at ~ GeV on a Hydrocarbon Target

D. Ruterbories, K. Hurtado, J. Osta +70

MINERvA presents a new analysis of neutrino induced quasielastic-like interactions in a hydrocarbon tracking target. We report a double-differential cross section using the muon tr…

hep-ex2018★ 82 cited

Measurement of final-state correlations in neutrino muon-proton mesonless production on hydrocarbon at GeV

X. -G. Lu, M. Betancourt, T. Walton +69

Final-state kinematic imbalances are measured in mesonless production of in the MINERvA tracker. Initial- and final-state nuclear effects are probed using…

hep-ex2018★ 32 cited

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