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most citedNeutrino Flux Predictions for the NuMI Beam

161 citations · 1.7k across the 46 of their papers we have counts for

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50 papers

hep-ex2023

Measurement of the Multi-Neutron Charged Current Differential Cross Section at Low Available Energy on Hydrocarbon

A. Olivier, T. Cai, S. Akhter +58

Neutron production in antineutrino interactions can lead to bias in energy reconstruction in neutrino oscillation experiments, but these interactions have rarely been studied. MINE…

hep-ex2023★ 9 cited

Simultaneous measurement of muon neutrino quasielastic-like cross sections on CH, C, water, Fe, and Pb as a function of muon kinematics at MINERvA

J. Kleykamp, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +65

This paper presents the first simultaneous measurement of the quasielastic-like neutrino-nucleus cross sections on C, water, Fe, Pb and scintillator (hydrocarbon or CH) as a functi…

hep-ex2022

High-Statistics Measurement of Antineutrino Quasielastic-like scattering at 6~GeV on a Hydrocarbon Target

A. Bashyal, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +66

We present measurements of the cross section for anti-neutrino charged-current quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon using the medium energy (ME) NuMI wide-band neutrino beam…

hep-ex2022★ 6 cited

Neutrino-induced coherent production in C, CH, Fe and Pb at GeV

M. A. Ramírez, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +63

MINERvA has measured the -induced coherent cross section simultaneously in hydrocarbon (CH), graphite (C), iron (Fe) and lead (Pb) targets using neutrinos from 2 to 20…

hep-ex2022★ 21 cited

Improved constraint on the MINERvA medium energy neutrino flux using data

L. Zazueta, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +58

Processes with precisely known cross sections, like neutrino electron elastic scattering () and inverse muon decay ()…

hep-ex2022★ 9 cited

Simultaneous measurement of muon neutrino charged-current single production in CH, C, HO, Fe, and Pb targets in MINERvA

A. Bercellie, K. A. Kroma-Wiley, S. Akhter +69

Neutrino-induced charged-current single production in the resonance region is of considerable interest to accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments. In thi…

hep-ex2022★ 1 cited

Simultaneous measurement of proton and lepton kinematics in quasielastic-like -hydrocarbon interactions from 2 to 20 GeV

The MINERvA Collaboration, D. Ruterbories, S. Akhter +71

Neutrino charged-current quasielastic-like scattering, a reaction category extensively used in neutrino oscillation measurements, probes nuclear effects that govern neutrino-nucleu…

hep-ex2021★ 17 cited

Measurement of inclusive charged-current $ν_{\numu}$ scattering on hydrocarbon at {<Enu>} 6 GeV with low three-momentum transfer

M. V. Ascencio, D. A. Andrade, I. Mahbub +63

The \minerva experiment reports double-differential cross-section measurements for -carbon interactions with three-momentum transfer GeV obtained with medium…

hep-ex2021★ 13 cited

Exploring Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the GeV Regime using MINERvA

X. -G. Lu, Z. Ahmad Dar, F. Akbar +64

With the advance of particle accelerator and detector technologies, the neutrino physics landscape is rapidly expanding. As neutrino oscillation experiments enter the intensity and…

hep-ex2021★ 12 cited

Constraining the NuMI neutrino flux using inverse muon decay reactions in MINERvA

D. Ruterbories, Z. Ahmad Dar, F. Akbar +61

Inverse muon decay, , is a reaction whose cross-section can be predicted with very small uncertainties. It has a neutrino energy threshold of GeV and…

hep-ex2021

Measurement of inclusive charged-current cross sections as a function of muon kinematics at on hydrocarbon

D. Ruterbories, A. Filkins, Z. Ahmad Dar +60

MINERvA presents a new analysis of inclusive charged-current neutrino interactions on a hydrocarbon target. We report single and double-differential cross sections in muon transver…

hep-ex2021★ 10 cited

Use of Neutrino Scattering Events with Low Hadronic Recoil to Inform Neutrino Flux and Detector Energy Scale

A. Bashyal, D. Rimal, B. Messerly +60

Charged-current neutrino interactions with low hadronic recoil ("low-nu") have a cross-section that is approximately constant versus neutrino energy. These interactions have been u…

hep-ex2021★ 7 cited

An Error Analysis Toolkit for Binned Counting Experiments

B. Messerly, R. Fine, A. Olivier +42

We introduce the MINERvA Analysis Toolkit (MAT), a utility for centralizing the handling of systematic uncertainties in HEP analyses. The fundamental utilities of the toolkit are t…

hep-ex2021

Neutral pion reconstruction using machine learning in the MINERvA experiment at GeV

A. Ghosh, B. Yaeggy, R. Galindo +53

This paper presents a novel neutral-pion reconstruction that takes advantage of the machine learning technique of semantic segmentation using MINERvA data collected between 2013-20…

hep-ex2020★ 31 cited

Double-Differential Inclusive Charged-Current Cross Sections on Hydrocarbon in MINERvA at 3.5 GeV

A. Filkins, D. Ruterbories, Y. Liu +64

MINERvA reports inclusive charged-current cross sections for muon neutrinos on hydrocarbon in the NuMI beamline. We measured the double-differential cross section in terms of the l…

hep-ex2020★ 32 cited

Probing nuclear effects with neutrino-induced charged-current neutral pion production

D. Coplowe, O. Altinok, Z. Ahmad Dar +65

We study neutrino-induced charged-current (CC) production on carbon nuclei using events with fully imaged final-state proton- systems. Novel use of final-state correlati…

hep-ex2019★ 33 cited

High-statistics measurement of neutrino quasielastic-like scattering at <E_nu>=~6 GeV on a hydrocarbon target

M. F. Carneiro, D. Ruterbories, Z. Ahmad Dar +65

We measure neutrino charged current quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon at high statistics using the wide-band NuMI beam with neutrino energy peaked at 6 GeV. The double-di…

hep-ex2019★ 61 cited

Nuclear binding energy and transverse momentum imbalance in neutrino-nucleus reactions

T. Cai, X. -G. Lu, L. A. Harewood +64

We have measured new observables based on the final state kinematic imbalances in the mesonless production of in the tracker. Comp…

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…

hep-ex2019★ 53 cited

Tuning the GENIE Pion Production Model with MINERvA Data

P. Stowell, L. Pickering, C. Wilkinson +68

Faced with unresolved tensions between neutrino interaction measurements at few-GeV neutrino energies, current experiments are forced to accept large systematic uncertainties to co…

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…

physics.data-an2018★ 23 cited

Reducing model bias in a deep learning classifier using domain adversarial neural networks in the MINERvA experiment

G. N. Perdue, A. Ghosh, M. Wospakrik +53

We present a simulation-based study using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) to identify neutrino interaction vertices in the MINERvA passive targets region, and illustrate…