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most citedFirst measurement of electron neutrino appearance in NOvA

254 citations · 1.4k across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

hep-ph2026

Topological Geometry of Neutrino Mass and Mixing

Enrique Arrieta-Diaz

This Letter transitions neutrino mixing from an empirical fit to a geometric law by analytically deriving the PMNS mixing angles and mass spectrum from an topological manifol…

hep-ex2026

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…

hep-ex2026

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…

hep-ex2026

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…

hep-ex2025★ 23 cited

Joint neutrino oscillation analysis from the T2K and NOvA experiments

NOvA, T2K Collaborations, : +597

The landmark discovery that neutrinos have mass and can change type (or "flavor") as they propagate -- a process called neutrino oscillation -- has opened up a rich array of theore…

hep-ex2025★ 5 cited

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…

hep-ex2025

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…

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-ph2024

Neutrino oscillations from the perspective of the quantum Yang-Baxter equations

Ivan Arraut, Enrique Arrieta-Diaz

The origins of neutrino masses is one of the biggest mysteries in modern physics since they are beyond the realm of the Standard Model. As massive particles, neutrinos undergo flav…

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-ex2023★ 13 cited

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)…

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-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…

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-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-ex2018★ 170 cited

New constraints on oscillation parameters from appearance and disappearance in the NOvA experiment

M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga T. Alion +126

We present updated results from the NOvA experiment for and oscillations from an exposure of protons on target, which re…

hep-ex2017★ 81 cited

Search for active-sterile neutrino mixing using neutral-current interactions in NOvA

NOvA Collaboration, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +177

We report results from the first search for sterile neutrinos mixing with active neutrinos through a reduction in the rate of neutral-current interactions over a baseline of 810\,k…